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Alejandro Baez<p>I been messing around trying self hosted options for logs. Mostly to scratch an itch, but also to know what is available in the market.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>openObserve</span></a> is nice, but feels pretty clunky for what I want. Found this thing called <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/seq" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>seq</span></a>, which is kind of brilliant. But right now, I&#39;ve settled with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/victorialogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>victorialogs</span></a> from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/victoriametrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>victoriametrics</span></a>. </p><p>It can ingest <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/elasticsearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elasticsearch</span></a> formatted logs. But you get the ease that <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/loki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>loki</span></a> was trying to do. I have to say, I&#39;m impressed. 😄</p><p><a href="https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/logsql/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.victoriametrics.com/victo</span><span class="invisible">rialogs/logsql/</span></a></p>
MalwareLab<p>During the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SharkBytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharkBytes</span></a> session at <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SharkFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharkFest</span></a> conference I had an opportunity to present a lightning talk about my pet project called IDS Lab.<br>It is a lab infrastructure deployable as docker containers, which simulates the small company network.</p><p>The IDS Lab consists of web webserver with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MySQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySQL</span></a> database, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> desktop with RDP, the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WireGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WireGuard</span></a> VPN for "remote" workers and for connecting another virtual or physical machines into the lab network.<br>This part of infrastructure can be used for attack simulations.</p><p>There are additional components for playing with logs and detections, too: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fluentbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fluentbit</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Suricata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suricata</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> as lightweight SIEM. </p><p>In the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SIEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SIEM</span></a> we already have preconfgured dashboards for alerts, netflows, web logs and logs from windows machines, if present.</p><p>Using the provided setup script, the whole lab can be up and running in up to 5 minutes. For more info, please check my GitHub repository with the IDS Lab:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/SecurityDungeon/ids-lab/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/SecurityDungeon/ids</span><span class="invisible">-lab/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sf24eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf24eu</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/wireshark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wireshark</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@wireshark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wireshark</span></a></span></p>
farcaller<p>Lol. Their docs can't decide on the port they use. <a href="https://hdev.im/tags/openobserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openobserve</span></a></p>
Özkan Pakdil 🦖<p>Since morning I am searching for a nice free log analyzer, I used <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/splunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>splunk</span></a> around 12 years just wanted to search quickly on some application logs, most probably log4j or log4net logs. I tried <br>- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ELK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ELK</span></a>&lt;-too hard to install configure<br>- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/graylog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graylog</span></a>&lt;-too complex or non working docs<br>- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/jaeger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jaeger</span></a>&lt;-wanted json format<br>- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/openobserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openobserve</span></a>&lt;-does not have simple log upload or file path provider, needs fluentd or kubectl</p><p>I did not know splunk is this good, now I am convinced it is super product. Feel free to tell if you have a good suggestion and boost please for reach.</p>
Andy Blyler<p>I created an addon for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homeassistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homeassistant</span></a> last night that allows you to ship logs from your <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hassio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hassio</span></a> instance to somewhere else via <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fluentbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fluentbit</span></a>: <a href="https://github.com/ablyler/ha-addon-fluent-bit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ablyler/ha-addon-fl</span><span class="invisible">uent-bit</span></a></p><p>I am personally using this to send my logs to a local <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/openobserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openobserve</span></a> instance: <a href="https://openobserve.ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openobserve.ai</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
atareao 🦀🐍🐋🐧<p>577 - El cron lo carga el diablo<br>Realizar copias de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seguridad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seguridad</span></a> en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> y <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> utilizando <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cron</span></a> o <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a> y como monitorizar la actividad con herramientas como <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a></p><p>El día que se me ocurrió la idea de levantar OpenObserve para controlar los contenedores Docker y otros procesos en mi VPS principal, me tenía que haber dado un premio. Con el paso del tiempo esta herramienta se ha convertido en una fuente increíble de reso<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atareaoConLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atareaoConLinux</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJRmsWuGGc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=vYJRmsWuGG</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p>The February <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog_ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syslog_ng</span></a> newsletter is now available:</p><p>- <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/JSON" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JSON</span></a> API support</p><p>- Syslog-ng PE can now send logs to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BigQuery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigQuery</span></a></p><p>- syslog-ng can now do a full configuration check</p><p>- How build services make life easier for upstream developers</p><p><a href="https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2024-02-openobserve-configuration-check-build-services" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog</span><span class="invisible">/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2024-02-openobserve-configuration-check-build-services</span></a></p>
ItzTrain<p>I remember someone mentioning <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> here sometime ago and decided to give it a go in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> it's a binary which is easy enough to get going. Documentation is garbage tho. It was easy enough to start ingesting logs and it uses an OTEL collector which I guess is in the spirit and all that.</p>
Peter Czanik<p>The December syslog-ng newsletter is now out:</p><p>- Compressing HTTP traffic</p><p>- Why is a feature not available in the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog_ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syslog_ng</span></a> package?</p><p>- Sending logs to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a></p><p>- Removing duplicate messages with syslog-ng in a redundant logging environment</p><p><a href="https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2023-12-compressed-http-packages-openobserve-duplicates" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog</span><span class="invisible">/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2023-12-compressed-http-packages-openobserve-duplicates</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p>Version 4.5.0 of syslog-ng is now available with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> JSON API support:</p><p><a href="https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/version-4-5-0-of-syslog-ng-is-now-available-with-openobserve-json-api-support" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog</span><span class="invisible">/posts/version-4-5-0-of-syslog-ng-is-now-available-with-openobserve-json-api-support</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LogManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LogManagement</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p>Version 4.5.0 of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog_ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syslog_ng</span></a> is now available with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/JSON" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JSON</span></a> API support, and many other smaller features. My blog shows you how to get up-to-date installers, and a sample syslog-ng configuration for OpenObserve.</p><p><a href="https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/version-4-5-0-of-syslog-ng-is-now-available-with-openobserve-json-api-support" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog</span><span class="invisible">/posts/version-4-5-0-of-syslog-ng-is-now-available-with-openobserve-json-api-support</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LogManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LogManagement</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenObserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenObserve</span></a> has an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Elasticsearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elasticsearch</span></a> compatible API for log ingestion, but syslog-ng is not mentioned in the documentation. Luckily, as it turned out, OpenObserve has a ready to use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog_ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syslog_ng</span></a> configuration example in the web UI.</p><p><a href="https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/sending-logs-to-openobserve-using-syslog-ng" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog</span><span class="invisible">/posts/sending-logs-to-openobserve-using-syslog-ng</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LogManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LogManagement</span></a></p>