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    • A
      AR15USR
      last edited by

      I'm starting to get this error when my Dashboard refreshes: "Courier Fetch: 28 of 325 shards failed."

      I've noticed that I'm seeing yellow health and replications:

      health status index               uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green  open   logstash-2017.09.09 yhdtjrKHQVycMOCfBmssWQ   5   0     347962            0    150.8mb        150.8mb
green  open   logstash-2017.09.10 Yg98wyN5SYav2dnc8OmFxA   5   0     359406            0      158mb          158mb
green  open   logstash-2017.09.11 mG66BkrDQOSnyJCqI5Ir-w   5   0     380644            0    164.2mb        164.2mb
green  open   logstash-2017.09.12 y26fNsoORtW6cSx1QcE7ZQ   5   0     390537            0    169.2mb        169.2mb
green  open   logstash-2017.09.13 MxyncENMRXqxLnMuJIw1rw   5   0     353464            0    152.2mb        152.2mb
yellow open   logstash-2017.09.14 Gp3dZ-uUTeWv9YIS4calhw   5   1     376975            0    163.5mb        163.5mb
yellow open   logstash-2017.09.15 cq8n4mYYSWGZZrzrb50B-g   5   1     392566            0    165.2mb        165.2mb
yellow open   logstash-2017.09.16 u7aF2fGSSmOJmJCU4odO5w   5   1     210728            0     94.5mb         94.5mb

      Anyone know why this is happening all the sudden?

      2.6.0-RELEASE

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        AR15USR
        last edited by

        Anyone able to give me any clues or places to start with the above?

        2.6.0-RELEASE

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          tzidore
          last edited by

          Hi

          I have been trying to fetch logs from pfSense 2.4.1 all day. I haven't been able to get the grok pattern to work.
          The post below does nothing for me. It worked fine on 2.3.4_p1.

          Any ideas?

          @pfBasic:

          I finally got this up & running on pfSense 2.4.0 BETA with the help of AR15USR and some people on IRC.

          Initially I was having trouble getting the Index Patterns to populate in the first step of Kibana. I had followed doktornotor's advice for setting up MaxMind. For whatever reason that didn't work for me so I just did it according to http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ and it worked.

          Next, I had everything stable and logs being imported, but all logs were being tagged "_grokparsefailure" & "_geoip_lookup_failure" and since the pattern wasn't matching, it wasn't putting out any useful fields/information. This was also preventing me from importing the Visualizations.json due to not having the applicable fields available.

          After way too much time troubleshooting and trying to figure out what was happening and why I was given some direction and pointed to the grok debugger by a kind IRC user. https://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/
          For anyone looking to troubleshoot or modify their own grok pattern files, here's what I could make of the fields in 2.4.0 BETA's Rsyslog format. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=133354.msg733494#msg733494
          Run a pcap to see exactly what your pfSense box is sending to your ELK server.

          It turned out that all I needed to do was change one character in /etc/logstash/conf.d/patterns/pfsense2-3.grok and reboot.

          I changed line 16 (PFSENSE_LOG_DATA)
          From:

          PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule}),,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),

          To:

          PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule})?,,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),

          That's it, one "?".

          After that, log files were parsing successfully, I refreshed my Index Pattern Field List to pull in all of the new fields, imported the Visualizations.json and opened up the Dashboard. All is working now on my single core atom with 2GB DDR2!

          @doktornotor:

          @johnpoz:

          I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running.  Haven't had time to look into why.

          Make sure you've allocated at least 4GiB of RAM to this thing. (Java  >:( ::))

          I have this up and running (for home use) on an old netbook with an atom N450 (Pineview ~2010, single core 1.66GHz) with 2GB DDR2. I had to significantly lower RAM usage in the following two files to get it working. Currently using <1.5GB RAM, the OS is lubuntu with GUI service disabled. It's also running a Unifi controller. Dashboard is slow to load even for a small home network but it works! I couldn't justify buying anything to get an ELK stack for my home network.

          /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options

          /etc/logstash/jvm.options
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            f11
            last edited by

            So after messing about with the Grok debugger, modifying the .grok file to the following seemed to work:

            PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),,,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),
PFSENSE_IP_SPECIFIC_DATA (%{PFSENSE_IPv4_SPECIFIC_DATA}|%{PFSENSE_IPv6_SPECIFIC_DATA})
PFSENSE_IPv4_SPECIFIC_DATA (%{BASE16NUM:tos}),,(%{INT:ttl}),(%{INT:id}),(%{INT:offset}),(%{WORD:flags}),(%{INT:proto_id}),(%{WORD:proto}),
PFSENSE_IPv4_SPECIFIC_DATA_ECN (%{BASE16NUM:tos}),(%{INT:ecn}),(%{INT:ttl}),(%{INT:id}),(%{INT:offset}),(%{WORD:flags}),(%{INT:proto_id}),(%{WORD:proto}),
PFSENSE_IPv6_SPECIFIC_DATA (%{BASE16NUM:class}),(%{DATA:flow_label}),(%{INT:hop_limit}),(%{WORD:proto}),(%{INT:proto_id}),
PFSENSE_IP_DATA (%{INT:length}),(%{IP:src_ip}),(%{IP:dest_ip}),
PFSENSE_PROTOCOL_DATA (%{PFSENSE_TCP_DATA}|%{PFSENSE_UDP_DATA}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_DATA}|%{PFSENSE_CARP_DATA})
PFSENSE_TCP_DATA (%{INT:src_port}),(%{INT:dest_port}),(%{INT:data_length}),(%{WORD:tcp_flags}),(%{INT:sequence_number}),(%{INT:ack_number}),(%{INT:tcp_window}),(%{DATA:urg_data}),(%{DATA:tcp_options})
PFSENSE_UDP_DATA (%{INT:src_port}),(%{INT:dest_port}),(%{INT:data_length})
PFSENSE_ICMP_DATA (%{PFSENSE_ICMP_TYPE}%{PFSENSE_ICMP_RESPONSE})
PFSENSE_ICMP_TYPE (?<icmp_type>(request|reply|unreachproto|unreachport|unreach|timeexceed|paramprob|redirect|maskreply|needfrag|tstamp|tstampreply)),
PFSENSE_ICMP_RESPONSE (%{PFSENSE_ICMP_ECHO_REQ_REPLY}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHPORT}| %{PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHPROTO}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHABLE}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_NEED_FLAG}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_TSTAMP}|%{PFSENSE_ICMP_TSTAMP_REPLY})
PFSENSE_ICMP_ECHO_REQ_REPLY (%{INT:icmp_echo_id}),(%{INT:icmp_echo_sequence})
PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHPORT (%{IP:icmp_unreachport_dest_ip}),(%{WORD:icmp_unreachport_protocol}),(%{INT:icmp_unreachport_port})
PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHPROTO (%{IP:icmp_unreach_dest_ip}),(%{WORD:icmp_unreachproto_protocol})
PFSENSE_ICMP_UNREACHABLE (%{GREEDYDATA:icmp_unreachable})
PFSENSE_ICMP_NEED_FLAG (%{IP:icmp_need_flag_ip}),(%{INT:icmp_need_flag_mtu})
PFSENSE_ICMP_TSTAMP (%{INT:icmp_tstamp_id}),(%{INT:icmp_tstamp_sequence})
PFSENSE_ICMP_TSTAMP_REPLY (%{INT:icmp_tstamp_reply_id}),(%{INT:icmp_tstamp_reply_sequence}),(%{INT:icmp_tstamp_reply_otime}),(%{INT:icmp_tstamp_reply_rtime}),(%{INT:icmp_tstamp_reply_ttime})

PFSENSE_CARP_DATA (%{WORD:carp_type}),(%{INT:carp_ttl}),(%{INT:carp_vhid}),(%{INT:carp_version}),(%{INT:carp_advbase}),(%{INT:carp_advskew})

DHCPD (%{DHCPDISCOVER}|%{DHCPOFFER}|%{DHCPREQUEST}|%{DHCPACK}|%{DHCPINFORM}|%{DHCPRELEASE})
DHCPDISCOVER %{WORD:dhcp_action} from %{COMMONMAC:dhcp_client_mac}%{SPACE}(\(%{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_client_hostname}\))? via (?<dhcp_client_vlan>[0-9a-z_]*)(: %{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_load_balance})?
DHCPOFFER %{WORD:dhcp_action} on %{IPV4:dhcp_client_ip} to %{COMMONMAC:dhcp_client_mac}%{SPACE}(\(%{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_client_hostname}\))? via (?<dhcp_client_vlan>[0-9a-z_]*)
DHCPREQUEST %{WORD:dhcp_action} for %{IPV4:dhcp_client_ip}%{SPACE}(\(%{IPV4:dhcp_ip_unknown}\))? from %{COMMONMAC:dhcp_client_mac}%{SPACE}(\(%{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_client_hostname}\))? via (?<dhcp_client_vlan>[0-9a-z_]*)(: %{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_request_message})?
DHCPACK %{WORD:dhcp_action} on %{IPV4:dhcp_client_ip} to %{COMMONMAC:dhcp_client_mac}%{SPACE}(\(%{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_client_hostname}\))? via (?<dhcp_client_vlan>[0-9a-z_]*)
DHCPINFORM %{WORD:dhcp_action} from %{IPV4:dhcp_client_ip} via %(?<dhcp_client_vlan>[0-9a-z_]*)
DHCPRELEASE %{WORD:dhcp_action} of %{IPV4:dhcp_client_ip} from %{COMMONMAC:dhcp_client_mac}%{SPACE}(\(%{GREEDYDATA:dhcp_client_hostname}\))? via</dhcp_client_vlan></dhcp_client_vlan></dhcp_client_vlan></dhcp_client_vlan></dhcp_client_vlan></icmp_type>

            Essentially the line

            PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule}),,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),

            Was changed to

            PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),,,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),

            Now logs seem to be parsing correctly and my dashboard is looking populated again.

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              alex_ncus
              last edited by

              NOOB

              Anyone been able to get latest ELK running in Docker containers and parsing pfsense 2.4.1 logs? Trying to get pfsense to send log to NAS and then having my Mac workstation running Docker with ELK to parse / analyze data staged on NAS.

              Does this even make sense?

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                donnydavis
                last edited by

                I used EFK and it works great for me

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                  vinchi007
                  last edited by

                  Thanks for sharing! I've setup my ELK and PFSence 2.2 on FreeNAS jail. one thing to note, if you're using FreeNas, logstash startup script will list only logstash.conf file to load so I've combined all of these conf files into one. Also, note that you need to change location path of "patters" location where grok patterns file will reside in.

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                    AR15USR
                    last edited by

                    Anyone having issues with GROK failure on 2.4.2? I'm seeing more than 50% failures. Seems to be failing on the inbound block/pass logs, the outbound blocks/pass seem to work fine.

                    Ive set it up exactly according to http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ and also have setup MaxMind according to Docs Insdructions: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=120937.msg671603#msg671603

                    2.6.0-RELEASE

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                      thhi
                      last edited by

                      May this is useful for someone:

                      We use vlans in our environment and our interface names contain "." (and not only "word" characters). So we modified "PFSENSE_LOG_DATA" in the  grok filter

                      
IFACE \b[a-zA-Z0-9.]+\b
#PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule}),,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{WORD:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),
PFSENSE_LOG_DATA (%{INT:rule}),(%{INT:sub_rule})?,,(%{INT:tracker}),(%{IFACE:iface}),(%{WORD:reason}),(%{WORD:action}),(%{WORD:direction}),(%{INT:ip_ver}),
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                        gurulee
                        last edited by

                        I followed this guide initially: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elastic-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04 . At that point I was seeing data from filebeats in Kibana only.

                        But after merging in these steps, I now do not see any log data from pfsense, or filebeats. Do I need to disable/remove filebeats?

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                          gurulee @gurulee
                          last edited by

                          @gurulee said in ELK + pfSense 2.3 Working:

                          Kibana

                          I believe filebeat was screwing things up. I blew away the vm after hours of racking my brain and reinstalling ELK stack. I ended up rebuilding it according to this guide http://pfelk.3ilson.com/2017/10/pfsense-v24xkibanaelasticsearchlogstash.html?m=1
                          , and it’s working now. I just need to tweak dashboards and visualizations at this point.

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                            bartkowski
                            last edited by

                            Have any of you seen https://logz.io offering?

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                              Coeus111
                              last edited by

                              Good day ando1,

                              Much appreciated.
                              Can it apply to pfsense version 2.4.5?

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