pensando module

The pensando module parses distributed firewall logs created by the Pensando distributed services card (DSC).

When you run the module, it performs a few tasks under the hood:

• Sets the default paths to the log files (but don’t worry, you can override the defaults)
• Makes sure each multiline log event gets sent as a single event
• Uses an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline to parse and process the log lines, shaping the data into a structure suitable for visualizing in Kibana
• Deploys dashboards for visualizing the log data

The Pensando module has been tested with 1.12.0-E-54 and later.

You can further refine the behavior of the pensando module by specifying variable settings in the modules.d/pensando.yml file, or overriding settings at the command line.

You must enable at least one fileset in the module. Filesets are disabled by default.

The following example shows how to set parameters in the modules.d/pensando.yml file to listen for firewall logs sent from the Pensando DSC(s) on port 5514 (default is 9001):

- module: pensando
  access:
    enabled: true
    var.syslog_host: 0.0.0.0
    var.syslog_port: [9001]

Each fileset has separate variable settings for configuring the behavior of the module. If you don’t specify variable settings, the pensando module uses the defaults.

For advanced use cases, you can also override input settings. See Override input settings.

var.paths

An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories: /path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all .log files from the subfolders of /path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the /path/to/log folder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.

This module comes with a sample dashboard. For example:

For a description of each field in the module, see the exported fields section.