[Bro] Question : How can I change a particular log file format?

[Johanna Amann]

Hello Aneela,

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:56:12AM +0000, Aneela Safdar wrote:
> I am a newbie at bro and wanted to change log format of http.log file to
> json. Currently I have made changes in ascii.bro and now I am getting
> all logs format in json but what I have to do if I only want http.log to
> have that format and others keep default?

you can do something like this in bro_init:

local f = Log::get_filter(HTTP::LOG, "default"); # get default filter
f$config = table(["use_json"] = "T"); # set json config option
Log::add_filter(HTTP::LOG, f); # replace default filter

> Also my log files have got still .log extension, how can I change it o .json?

You sadly cannot change it for a single log file, just for all of them (by
setting the BRO_LOG_SUFFIX environment variable).

I hope this helps,
 Johanna