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      michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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      @mcury Not sure if its working to be honest.
      There are no errors showing up in the pipeline so messages are being processed.

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        mcury @michmoor
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        @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

        @mcury Not sure if its working to be honest.
        There are no errors showing up in the pipeline so messages are being processed.

        Did you edit the pipeline connections and assigned to the ipfix stream ?

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          michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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          @mcury
          Im on Graylog 6.0.5

          Yes my pipeline is connected to my stream. Im using Netflow data just for testing.

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            mcury @michmoor
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            @michmoor I'm on Graylog 6.1.5, but it should work on 6.0.5, no problems with that.

            Is Configurations tab, Manage processors, is pipeline active ?

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              michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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              @mcury
              Yep its active.
              I have other pipelines in effect so this is all working. The new pipeline for Netflow is the latest addition. I guess I'm trying to figure out how to prove its working
              With my other pipelines, I'm extracting fields into Grok Patterns so i can tell immediately if its working.

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              Considering i see no errors in the pipeline i have to imagine its working.

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                mcury @michmoor
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                @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                Considering i see no errors in the pipeline i have to imagine its working.

                But do you see messages being processed in the Throughput ?

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                  michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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                  @mcury

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                    mcury @michmoor
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                    @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                    @mcury

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                    Now, check if the field exists:

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                      michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
                      last edited by michmoor

                      @mcury

                      It does. I feel like we are getting close to a confirmation. LOL

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                      Is my pipeline rule correct?

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                        mcury @michmoor
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                        @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                        It does. I feel like we are getting close to a confirmation. LOL

                        So, the rule is processing the data, and the field exists.
                        It must be showing up in the logs..

                        @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                        Is my pipeline rule correct?

                        That is an old rule, I'm using now octetDeltaCount, replace the rule with the one I posted above.

                        After that, go to rule simulator, JSON, paste the example below, then click in run rule simulator, and check if the field size_bytes will appear

                        {
                          "destinationTransportPort": 3246,
                          "size_bytes": 0,
                          "gl2_remote_ip": "192.168.255.249",
                          "gl2_remote_port": 20815,
                          "sourceIPv4Address": "192.168.255.249",
                          "source": "192.168.255.249",
                          "ipClassOfService": 0,
                          "gl2_source_input": "6627f43d99aaec416300cd0e",
                          "hostname_src": "pfsense.home.arpa.",
                          "egressInterface": 1,
                          "octetDeltaCount": 168,
                          "gl2_source_node": "0f929def-42b9-4ea6-8980-799a62f7bdb3",
                          "sourceTransportPort": 3246,
                          "flowEndMilliseconds": "2024-04-23T20:21:02.098Z",
                          "timestamp": "2024-04-23T20:21:24.000Z",
                          "destinationIPv4Address": "192.168.255.253",
                          "gl2_accounted_message_size": 575,
                          "streams": [
                            "63fe3ab48b6393126ef3c2f7"
                          ],
                          "gl2_message_id": "01HW69XJD000004NFV0XGMQ27B",
                          "message": "Ipfix [192.168.255.249]:3246 <> [192.168.255.253]:3246 proto:1 pkts:2 bytes:168",
                          "ingressInterface": 1,
                          "packetDeltaCount": 2,
                          "protocolIdentifier": 1,
                          "hostname_dst": "rpi4.home.arpa.",
                          "_id": "0ea147d7-01af-11ef-8e3e-dca632a54719",
                          "flowStartMilliseconds": "2024-04-23T20:21:01.096Z"
                        }
                        

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                          michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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                          @mcury Rule simulation returns without a problem

                          So I'm a bit confused as to how you figured out there was a field called "size_bytes" as that does not come up for me when i review the available fields. In fact, unlike NetFlow which has a field called "nf_bytes" there is nothing similar in IPFix within Graylog.

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                            mcury @michmoor
                            last edited by mcury

                            @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                            @mcury Rule simulation returns without a problem

                            So I'm a bit confused as to how you figured out there was a field called "size_bytes" as that does not come up for me when i review the available fields. In fact, unlike NetFlow which has a field called "nf_bytes" there is nothing similar in IPFix within Graylog.

                            I'm using IPFIX UDP, the rule "arithmetic" above reflects that.

                            The size_bytes field is the one we are creating with the pipeline.
                            I'm transforming the field octetDeltaCount, which is in bytes, to size_bytes , which is in megabytes.

                            dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                              michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
                              last edited by michmoor

                              @mcury You're the man.
                              I corrected some things looking at your example and i got it working.

                              One last question, how did you get DNS lookups as part of your set up?

                              edit:

                              I have updated some Dashboards to reflect the new data points IPFix provides.
                              @stephenw10 pflow definitely helped out in this but....would be nice to just have straight-up logging within pfsense just saying 😜

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                                mcury @michmoor
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                                @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                                One last question, how did you get DNS lookups as part of your set up?

                                There are a few steps, hope I remember all of them in this post (22 o´clock here already).
                                1- First, you need a reverse zone in your DNS.

                                • This reverse zone can be dynamically updated or not, you choose. I opted by having static IP leases and creating A and PTR records for each host individually, but you don't need to do it.
                                  2- Import these extractors to any input you want to use them:
                                {
                                  "extractors": [
                                    {
                                      "title": "hostname_src",
                                      "extractor_type": "lookup_table",
                                      "converters": [],
                                      "order": 12,
                                      "cursor_strategy": "copy",
                                      "source_field": "sourceIPv4Address",
                                      "target_field": "hostname_src",
                                      "extractor_config": {
                                        "lookup_table_name": "hostname"
                                      },
                                      "condition_type": "regex",
                                      "condition_value": "192.168.255.25|192.168.10."
                                    },
                                    {
                                      "title": "hostname_dst",
                                      "extractor_type": "lookup_table",
                                      "converters": [],
                                      "order": 13,
                                      "cursor_strategy": "copy",
                                      "source_field": "destinationIPv4Address",
                                      "target_field": "hostname_dst",
                                      "extractor_config": {
                                        "lookup_table_name": "hostname"
                                      },
                                      "condition_type": "regex",
                                      "condition_value": "192.168.255.25|192.168.10."
                                    }
                                  ],
                                  "version": "6.1.5"
                                }
                                

                                Or, through the GUI:
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                                The condition value was added to allow only local addresses to be resolved, but if you want the entire world to be resolved, just remove that.
                                3- Go to lookup tables in Graylog, create an adapter, a cache and a lookup table, point it your DNS server.
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                                That alone should do it, if you have any doubts just ask, but I will only answer tomorrow, 22:30 here already.

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                                  michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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                                  @mcury Got it working.

                                  Ever thought about creating a blog and posting this? At the very least this is extremely useful and should be preserved 😳

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                                    mcury @michmoor
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                                    @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                                    @mcury Got it working.

                                    Ever thought about creating a blog and posting this? At the very least this is extremely useful and should be preserved 😳

                                    I liked the idea 👍 Perhaps in a near future, have to organize a few things here and there before

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                                      michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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                                      @mcury Had to update the JVM Heap size. Looks like IPFix widget i made was killing my VM.

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                                        mcury @michmoor
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                                        @michmoor said in NAT Logs:

                                        Had to update the JVM Heap size. Looks like IPFix widget i made was killing my VM.

                                        DNS data can be overwhelming.
                                        I had to increase the JVM heap size and configure zswap with zmalloc and zstd to avoid crashes.
                                        Then, checked every rule that was logging, or tracking, and optimized that also.
                                        Created a bunch of no log rules, changed to 5 days of live data only, older indices are closed but I can open them anytime I need.

                                        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                                          mcury @mcury
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                                          Just updated my graylog to 6.1.6, still works.

                                          I'm doing some magic here, managed to work with Graylog, samba domain controller with freeradius, apache server with php and ssl, a nut server for everything (APC nobreak) and a Unifi controller that controls 3 devices, one AP, and two switches.

                                          All of these services running in a Raspberry pi 5 8GB hehe

                                          It runs so well if you optimize it correctly, that I've already deployed a raspberry pi 5 a few to some small customers.

                                          As soon as the 16GB variant reaches my region, I'll get one to see how many days of live logs I'll be able to get..

                                          Very low cost and power usage solution, easy to replace or rebuild the sd-card in case of disaster.
                                          Powering it up through PoE with an adapter bought in Aliexpress.

                                          dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                                            michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @mcury
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                                            @mcury said in NAT Logs:

                                            All of these services running in a Raspberry pi 5 8GB hehe

                                            You are a brave man! I have an XCP-NG 2x server set up.
                                            I am planning a future migration of Graylog. When i first stood it up years ago i made the very very bad error of storing all data on the vhd - So i have a 500GB drive attached to this Virtual Machine. As you can probably imagine wanting to back up the VM takes some time. I wanted to move it to an NFS share at the very least but my drives are not very performant. Its a project that is on the radar but i never have time.

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