ELK + pfSense 2.3 Working

ando1

OK after a lot of reading and researching, I have successfully created an ELK stack and can monitor my pfsense 2.3 firewall. I am posting the steps I used below along with the files needed. You may need to modify some of the files to fit your IP address and environment. Also I posted the reference links I used to create the steps.

I wanted to give credit to the sites that I got most of this information from as it helped me in figuring out how to make this work.

UPDATE 11/17: I also found this site and was able to get version 5 working with Ubuntu server 16+: http://pfelk.3ilson.com/

My original post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/5axoaj/getting_elk_to_work_with_pfsense_23/

Reference Links:
http://secretwafflelabs.com/2015/11/06/pfsense-elk/
https://elijahpaul.co.uk/monitoring-pfsense-2-1-logs-using-elk-logstash-kibana-elasticsearch/
https://elijahpaul.co.uk/updated-monitoring-pfsense-logs-using-elk-elasticsearch-logstash-kibana-part-1/

Prerequisites:
• Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop - http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/
• Kibana 4.5.4
• Logstash 2.2.4
• Elasticsearch 2.4.0
• pfSense 2.3.2

Files Needed (also in attached zip file)
(You will need to modify some of these to fit your environment)
• Kibana4 init script
• Pfsense 2.2+ grok file - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/pfsense2-2.grok
• 02-syslog-input.conf - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/02-syslog-input.conf
• 20-syslog-filter.conf - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/20-syslog-filter.conf
• 81-pfsense-filter.conf - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/81-pfsense-filter.conf
• 99-elasticsearch-output.conf - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/99-elasticsearch-output.conf
• Dashboard - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/Firewall_External_Dash.json
• Visualizations Export - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/Firewall_External_Visual.json
• Saved Searches Export - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/export.json

Steps:
1. In order to be able to run the below commands as root, log into the Ubuntu desktop and type sudo - i
2. Install Java

apt-get remove --purge openjdk*

add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java

apt-get update

apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer

3. Verify java version

java -version

Output
java version "1.8.0_111"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.111-b14, mixed mode)

4. Install ElasticSearch

wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/distribution/deb/elasticsearch/2.4.0/elasticsearch-2.4.0.deb

dpkg -i elasticsearch-2.3.4.deb

5. Download and install Logstash

wget https://download.elastic.co/logstash/logstash/packages/debian/logstash_2.2.4-1_all.deb

dpkg -i logstash_2.2.4-1_all.deb

6. Create a patterns directory for Geo_IP

cd /etc/logstash/conf.d

mkdir patterns

7. Create pfsense grok file

cd /etc/logstash/conf.d/patterns

nano pfsense2-2.grok

8. Download the GEO_IP database

cd /etc/logstash

curl -O "http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz"

gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

9. Create the logstash conf files

02-syslog-input.conf

nano /etc/logstash/02-syslog-input.conf

Copy the contents of 02-syslog-input.conf and save

Modify the port if needed

20-syslog-filter.conf

nano /etc/logstash/20-syslog-filter.conf

Copy the contents of20-syslog-filter.conf and save

Modify the section "#change to pfSense ip address" to reflect your pfsense IP address

81-pfsense-filter.conf

nano /etc/logstash/81-pfsense-filter.conf

Copy the contents of81-pfsense-filter.conf  and save

99-elasticsearch-output.conf

nano /etc/logstash/99-elasticsearch-output.conf

Copy the contents of99-elasticsearch-output.conf and save

10. Download and install Kibana

wget https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.5.4-linux-x64.tar.gz

untar -xzvf  kibana-4.4.2-linux-x64.tar.gz

mv kibana-4.4.2-linux-x64 /opt/kibana4/

sed -i 's/#pid_file/pid_file/g' /opt/kibana4/config/kibana.yml

11. Create "kibana4.sh" init script and save in /etc/init.d/

cd /etc/init.d

nano kibana4.sh

Copy the contents of the kibana script and save

12. Ensure services are running. Start if necessary.

Start elasticsearch:

service elasticsearch start

Start logstash:

service logstash start

Start kibana:

 /opt/kibana4/bin/kibana &

13. Log into your pfsense system and point your logs to the ELK IP address:
Status –> System Logs

14. Log into http://<ip_address>:5601
15. Click "Create Index"

16. On the kibana interface, go to Settings --> Objects and click Import. Import each file.
• Dashboard - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/Firewall_External_Dash.json
• Visualizations Export - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/Firewall_External_Visual.json
• Saved Searches Export - http://secretwafflelabs.com/files/export.json

17. On the kibana interface, go to Settings --> Objects and click the icon to view the new dashboard.

Troubleshooting
NOTE: For some reason my logstash doesn’t start at boot. I have to look into this, but haven't had time yet so I just start it manually

Here are some good troubleshooting commands:

Ensure logstash and elasticsearch are running and did not error out:

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ --debug

View the logstash stdout in realtime to see if you are receiving syslog messages from pfsense:

 tail -f /var/log/logstash/logstash.stdout

Check the logstash configuration files:

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/

If you do not see "Create Index" in step 12, see if logstash created one

curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices

```[elk_files.zip](/public/_imported_attachments_/1/elk_files.zip)</ip_address>

johnpoz

While this great, sure many people will be happy. Why are you using old versions of stuff?

The current is 5 is it not? And why such an old version of java? I just looked on my ubuntu 14.04 vm and 111 is current

user@uc:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_111"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.111-b14, mixed mode)
user@uc:~$

ando1

@johnpoz:

While this great, sure many people will be happy. Why are you using old versions of stuff?

The current is 5 is it not? And why such an old version of java? I just looked on my ubuntu 14.04 vm and 111 is current

user@uc:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_111"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.111-b14, mixed mode)
user@uc:~$

I used these versions because these were the ones that worked for me. I asked several times on this forum and received no help so I decided to share a working config with others here as I have read many posts where people said they had tried and could not get it going. If you got a newer version to work, then that's great. Post the instructions so everyone can also enjoy.

AR15USR

Thanks a bunch for this post ando1. Been looking forward to getting ELK going, will try it out when I get some free time…

AR15USR

I see no Create Index button. The output from your trouble shooting section is:

yellow open .kibana 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb

Also, when importing the 3 .json files, the "Firewall External" imports fine but I get this error on the other two:

Error: Could not locate that index-pattern (id: logstash-*)
KbnError@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:57463:21
SavedObjectNotFound@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:57592:6
applyESResp@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/kibana.bundle.js?v=10000:79296:37
processQueue@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:42404:29
scheduleProcessQueue/<@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:42420:28
$RootScopeProvider/this.$get$RootScopeProvider/this.$get$RootScopeProvider/this.$getdone@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:38205:37
completeRequest@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:38403:8
requestLoaded@http://0.0.0.0:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=10000:38344:10

Also, in steps 4 & 10, the file version numbers don't match fyi…

AR15USR

ando1, any idea what is going on?

PS I ran everyone of your troubleshooting commands and they all error out fyi…

ando1

@AR15USR:

ando1, any idea what is going on?

PS I ran everyone of your troubleshooting commands and they all error out fyi…

Can you post the output of the logstash debug? You may need to stop the service before you run the command:

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ –debug

Also what error do you get when you run this?

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/

Andy

ando1

For anyone interested in getting the newest version of ELK (v5) working with pfSense, I was able to get do it using the instructions on this siye: http://pfelk.3ilson.com/

You need at least Ubuntu server vv16.04.01

AR15USR

@ando1:

Can you post the output of the logstash debug? You may need to stop the service before you run the command:

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ –debug

Also what error do you get when you run this?

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/

Andy

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ –debug

Error: Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 1, column 1 (byte 1) after  {:level=>:error, :file=>"logstash/agent.rb", :line=>"214", :method=>"execute"}
You may be interested in the '--configtest' flag which you can
use to validate logstash's configuration before you choose
to restart a running system. {:level=>:info, :file=>"logstash/agent.rb", :line=>"216", :method=>"execute"}

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash –configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/

Error: Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 1, column 1 (byte 1) after  {:level=>:error}

ando1

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ –debug

Error: Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 1, column 1 (byte 1) after  {:level=>:error, :file=>"logstash/agent.rb", :line=>"214", :method=>"execute"}
You may be interested in the '--configtest' flag which you can
use to validate logstash's configuration before you choose
to restart a running system. {:level=>:info, :file=>"logstash/agent.rb", :line=>"216", :method=>"execute"}

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash –configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/

Error: Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 1, column 1 (byte 1) after  {:level=>:error}

You definitely have a config file issue. Logstash combines all the configuration files into one and then processes them. Since the error is at Line 1 column 1 it sounds like the problem may be in the 02-inputs file. Have a look at all config files and double check they are OK.

hamed_forum

tanks
if can creat ova or ovf from vm machine and upload it its very good :)

doktornotor

http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ basically works, but some pointers:

1/ There's a PPA for MaxMind:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa

see http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoipupdate/ for /etc/GeoIP.conf and run geoipupdate after that. The DB is located in /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

2/ You really should set up some authentication:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/installing-xpack.html#xpack-package-installation
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/setting-up-authentication.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html

johnpoz

Yeah I had issues with the date stuff in logstash config as well.. had to remove the +0400 and timezone..

I have it running, but elasticstack doesn't seem to want to stay running. Haven't had time to look into why. And have not had any time to do any visualizations - which is what everyone wants ;)

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 >:( ::))

hamed_forum

Elasticsearch after 10 sec start its stop

bubbawatson

@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 run elk stack on 1.5 ;D

Small office though. Thx for the info on auth.. I've been wondering how to do that.

BrunoCAVILLE

I'm currently going through the process of installing ELK but I have an important question. If I redirect the logs from pfSense to the ELK server will I be able to access the raw logs somewhere? I need to have them somewhere and I'm wondering where they would be if they are sent to ELK.

BrunoCAVILLE

Eveything works well except the maps visualization, someone can help?

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BrunoCAVILLE

Up

Logstash stops after a few seconds (rising heap size didn't help).

AMizil

@BrunoCAVILLE:

I'm currently going through the process of installing ELK but I have an important question. If I redirect the logs from pfSense to the ELK server will I be able to access the raw logs somewhere? I need to have them somewhere and I'm wondering where they would be if they are sent to ELK.

Status Menu - System Logs - Settings - and jump to : Remote log servers - and you can add another 2 Syslog Servers you have ; ex syslog-ng, Splunk etc

ronv

Hi all,

trying to get this going with PFsense 2.3.4 and ELK 5.4 - all components are talking ok, and I can get the JSON Dashboard, Search and Visualization up and running - almost…:

when I import the visualizations, Kibana complains that the tags geoip.country_name and geoip.city_name are not available.
I checked 11-pfsense.conf (which I used from this site) against the spec at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-geoip.html, and there does not appear to be any issue with this - that is, it looks like those tags should be returned.

Anything else I could check, or logs I could provide?

kind regards

Ron

hamed_forum

the log send from pfsense where is save on elk?
i change the elk server and how to export import log on prvise server?

pfBasic

Any differences to get this running on 2.4.0 BETA?

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

idealanthony

@BrunoCAVILLE:

Eveything works well except the maps visualization, someone can help?

@BrunoCAVILLE - I'm having the same problem as you did. I used the revised visualization file due to the .keyword issue. I've attempted to merge back in the country sections from the http://pfelk.3ilson.com/ visualization file, but still no luck. Just wanted to know if you were able to identify/ resolve the issue?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=125376.0

pfBasic

Did you refresh your fields list (Management / Index Patterns) after a number of your log files were successfully parsed?

If not, do that first then try to import the pf3lk visulization.json.

The import fails if you don't have the appropriate fields available.

8ayM

I just wanted to add that the Kibana4 init script from the OP is no longer listed via a link as others were so I wanted to copy it here in text form as it did take me a moment to realize that the scripts were all included in a zip file in the op as well.

Kibana4 init script:

#!/bin/sh

/etc/init.d/kibana4 – startup script for kibana4

bsmith@the408.com 2015-02-20; used elasticsearch init script as template

https://github.com/akabdog/scripts/edit/master/kibana4_init

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: kibana4

Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $named

Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $named

Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 6

Short-Description: Starts kibana4

Description: Starts kibana4 using start-stop-daemon

END INIT INFO

#configure this with wherever you unpacked kibana:
KIBANA_BIN=/opt/kibana4/bin

PID_FILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$KIBANA_BIN
DAEMON=$KIBANA_BIN/kibana
NAME=kibana4
DESC="Kibana4"

if [ id -u -ne 0 ]; then
echo "You need root privileges to run this script"
exit 1
fi

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

if [ -r /etc/default/rcS ]; then
. /etc/default/rcS
fi

case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC"

pid=pidofproc -p $PID_FILE kibana
if [ -n "$pid" ] ; then
log_begin_msg "Already running."
log_end_msg 0
exit 0
fi

# Start Daemon
start-stop-daemon –start --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --make-pidfile --background --exec $DAEMON
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC"

if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
start-stop-daemon –stop --pidfile "$PID_FILE"
--retry=TERM/20/KILL/5 >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
log_progress_msg "$DESC is not running but pid file exists, cleaning up"
elif [ $? -eq 3 ]; then
PID="cat $PID_FILE"
log_failure_msg "Failed to stop $DESC (pid $PID)"
exit 1
fi
rm -f "$PID_FILE"
else
log_progress_msg "(not running)"
fi
log_end_msg 0
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p $PID_FILE kibana kibana && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
$0 stop
sleep 1
fi
$0 start
;;
*)
log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac

8ayM

@AR15USR:

ando1, any idea what is going on?

PS I ran everyone of your troubleshooting commands and they all error out fyi…

How did you make out with this? I'm running into the same issue and it doesn't look like there was a resolution to the issue.

AR15USR

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?

AR15USR

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

tzidore

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

f11

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.

alex_ncus

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?

donnydavis

I used EFK and it works great for me

vinchi007

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.

AR15USR

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

thhi

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}),

gurulee

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?

gurulee

@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.

bartkowski

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

ELK + pfSense 2.3 Working

/etc/init.d/kibana4 – startup script for kibana4

bsmith@the408.com 2015-02-20; used elasticsearch init script as template

https://github.com/akabdog/scripts/edit/master/kibana4_init

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: kibana4

Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $named

Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $named

Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 6

Short-Description: Starts kibana4

Description: Starts kibana4 using start-stop-daemon

END INIT INFO

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