submitted 11 months ago by stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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Hey all, got a quick question!

I want to receive, parse and store syslogs from various devices on my home network on my windows box. I know, I know, its a bit backwards but I'd like to proceed with this sort of setup if possible (not against discussion, of course).

I've looked and looked for options but it seems like everything has been bare bones and basically just receives, or is locked behind premium. Surely there's some sort of solution out there, no? I'd be willing to implement something in Python if I need to but I'm considerably more hesitant when compared to using an open source soln.

Thanks for your time, looking forward to discussing/learning more!

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[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I’m familiar with filebeats and the ELK stack, set one of those up a long while ago to ingest Twitter from api before all that blew out a left kneecap haha.

I’ll check it out as well!

[-] alex_02@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For the elk stack you can replace Logstash and Filebeat with Fluentbit and feed it directly to Elastic Search than use Kibana. I've found Logstash to be the resource hog and Fluentbit just runs a lot better imo.

Some docs:

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/inputs/syslog

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch

EDIT: All three of them can also be run in a docker or several depending on your needs and how you configure.