Sending events to ElasticSearch#

This profile configures Filebeat to read events from suricata events files and send them to an ElasticSearch cluster.

The profile has the following best-practices enabled:

  • Filebeat is configured to send each event type to a different ElasticSearch Index, those indexes are:

    • suricata-alerts-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}: this index will contains the Suricata Alerts.

    • suricata-nsm-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}: this index will contains the NSM records.

    • suricata-stats-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}: contains the Suricata stats.

    • suricata-service-logs-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}: contains the suricata service logs.

  • Filebeat is configured to automatically load index templates to the ElasticSearch cluster so that the alerts/events are stored correctly.

  • The profile allows you to easily configure authentication if needed.