Suricata

Scanner supports Suricata EVE logs, which contain information relevant to network intrusion detection. In order for Scanner to see them, you configure Suricata to write EVE JSON logs to local disk and use Fluentd to forward those logs into an S3 bucket that Scanner is linked to.

Step 1: Publish to S3

Follow the Suricata documentation to configure it to export EVE JSON logs to a single file on local disk. See: Eve JSON Output.

This can be quite the firehose of data, so make sure to set up log file rotation to prevent your hard disk from filling up. See the Suricata documentation here: Rotate log file.

Follow the Fluentd documentation to configure it to read Suricata logs from the local file and write the logs to your S3 bucket. Make sure to configure the output format to be JSON. See the following Fluentd documentation articles:

• Fluentd tail input module
• Fluentd s3 output module

Step 2: Ingest via Scanner Collect

Follow the Create an Index Rule guide to ingest logs from S3 via Scanner Collect.