Thank you for your response. I am using Suricata 4.1.2. Here is the paste of the .yaml file.
##
## Step 2: select outputs to enable
##
# The default logging directory. Any log or output file will be
# placed here if its not specified with a full path name. This can be
# overridden with the -l command line parameter.
default-log-dir: /var/log/suricata/
# global stats configuration
stats:
enabled: yes
# The interval field (in seconds) controls at what interval
# the loggers are invoked.
interval: 8
# Add decode events as stats.
#decoder-events: true
# Add stream events as stats.
#stream-events: false
# Configure the type of alert (and other) logging you would like.
outputs:
# a line based alerts log similar to Snort's fast.log
- fast:
enabled: yes
filename: fast.log
append: yes
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# Extensible Event Format (nicknamed EVE) event log in JSON format
- eve-log:
enabled: yes
filetype: regular #regular|syslog|unix_dgram|unix_stream|redis
filename: eve.json
#prefix: "@cee: " # prefix to prepend to each log entry
# the following are valid when type: syslog above
#identity: "suricata"
#facility: local5
#level: Info ## possible levels: Emergency, Alert, Critical,
## Error, Warning, Notice, Info, Debug
#redis:
# server: 127.0.0.1
# port: 6379
# async: true ## if redis replies are read asynchronously
# mode: list ## possible values: list|lpush (default), rpush, channel|publish
# ## lpush and rpush are using a Redis list. "list" is an alias for lpush
# ## publish is using a Redis channel. "channel" is an alias for publish
# key: suricata ## key or channel to use (default to suricata)
# Redis pipelining set up. This will enable to only do a query every
# 'batch-size' events. This should lower the latency induced by network
# connection at the cost of some memory. There is no flushing implemented
# so this setting as to be reserved to high traffic suricata.
# pipelining:
# enabled: yes ## set enable to yes to enable query pipelining
# batch-size: 10 ## number of entry to keep in buffer
# Include top level metadata. Default yes.
#metadata: no
# include the name of the input pcap file in pcap file processing mode
pcap-file: false
# Community Flow ID
# Adds a 'community_id' field to EVE records. These are meant to give
# a records a predictable flow id that can be used to match records to
# output of other tools such as Bro.
#
# Takes a 'seed' that needs to be same across sensors and tools
# to make the id less predictable.
# enable/disable the community id feature.
community-id: false
# Seed value for the ID output. Valid values are 0-65535.
community-id-seed: 0
# HTTP X-Forwarded-For support by adding an extra field or overwriting
# the source or destination IP address (depending on flow direction)
# with the one reported in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. This is
# helpful when reviewing alerts for traffic that is being reverse
# or forward proxied.
xff:
enabled: no
# Two operation modes are available, "extra-data" and "overwrite".
mode: extra-data
# Two proxy deployments are supported, "reverse" and "forward". In
# a "reverse" deployment the IP address used is the last one, in a
# "forward" deployment the first IP address is used.
deployment: reverse
# Header name where the actual IP address will be reported, if more
# than one IP address is present, the last IP address will be the
# one taken into consideration.
header: X-Forwarded-For
types:
- alert:
# payload: yes # enable dumping payload in Base64
# payload-buffer-size: 4kb # max size of payload buffer to output in eve-log
# payload-printable: yes # enable dumping payload in printable (lossy) format
# packet: yes # enable dumping of packet (without stream segments)
# http-body: yes # enable dumping of http body in Base64
# http-body-printable: yes # enable dumping of http body in printable format
# metadata: no # enable inclusion of app layer metadata with alert. Default yes
# Enable the logging of tagged packets for rules using the
# "tag" keyword.
tagged-packets: yes
- http:
extended: yes # enable this for extended logging information
# custom allows additional http fields to be included in eve-log
# the example below adds three additional fields when uncommented
#custom: [Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Authorization]
- dns:
# This configuration uses the new DNS logging format,
# the old configuration is still available:
# http://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration/suricata-yaml.html#eve-extensible-event-format
# Use version 2 logging with the new format:
# DNS answers will be logged in one single event
# rather than an event for each of it.
# Without setting a version the version
# will fallback to 1 for backwards compatibility.
version: 2
# Enable/disable this logger. Default: enabled.
#enabled: no
# Control logging of requests and responses:
# - requests: enable logging of DNS queries
# - responses: enable logging of DNS answers
# By default both requests and responses are logged.
#requests: no
#responses: no
# Format of answer logging:
# - detailed: array item per answer
# - grouped: answers aggregated by type
# Default: all
#formats: [detailed, grouped]
# Answer types to log.
# Default: all
#types: [a, aaaa, cname, mx, ns, ptr, txt]
- tls:
extended: yes # enable this for extended logging information
# output TLS transaction where the session is resumed using a
# session id
#session-resumption: no
# custom allows to control which tls fields that are included
# in eve-log
#custom: [subject, issuer, session_resumed, serial, fingerprint, sni, version, not_before, not_after, certificate, chain, ja3]
- files:
force-magic: no # force logging magic on all logged files
# force logging of checksums, available hash functions are md5,
# sha1 and sha256
#force-hash: [md5]
#- drop:
# alerts: yes # log alerts that caused drops
# flows: all # start or all: 'start' logs only a single drop
# # per flow direction. All logs each dropped pkt.
- smtp:
#extended: yes # enable this for extended logging information
# this includes: bcc, message-id, subject, x_mailer, user-agent
# custom fields logging from the list:
# reply-to, bcc, message-id, subject, x-mailer, user-agent, received,
# x-originating-ip, in-reply-to, references, importance, priority,
# sensitivity, organization, content-md5, date
#custom: [received, x-mailer, x-originating-ip, relays, reply-to, bcc]
# output md5 of fields: body, subject
# for the body you need to set app-layer.protocols.smtp.mime.body-md5
# to yes
#md5: [body, subject]
#- dnp3
- nfs
- smb
- tftp
- ikev2
- krb5
- dhcp:
# DHCP logging requires Rust.
enabled: yes
# When extended mode is on, all DHCP messages are logged
# with full detail. When extended mode is off (the
# default), just enough information to map a MAC address
# to an IP address is logged.
extended: no
- ssh
- stats:
totals: yes # stats for all threads merged together
threads: no # per thread stats
deltas: no # include delta values
# bi-directional flows
- flow
# uni-directional flows
#- netflow
# Metadata event type. Triggered whenever a pktvar is saved
# and will include the pktvars, flowvars, flowbits and
# flowints.
#- metadata
# alert output for use with Barnyard2
- unified2-alert:
enabled: no
filename: unified2.alert
# File size limit. Can be specified in kb, mb, gb. Just a number
# is parsed as bytes.
#limit: 32mb
# By default unified2 log files have the file creation time (in
# unix epoch format) appended to the filename. Set this to yes to
# disable this behaviour.
#nostamp: no
# Sensor ID field of unified2 alerts.
#sensor-id: 0
# Include payload of packets related to alerts. Defaults to true, set to
# false if payload is not required.
#payload: yes
# HTTP X-Forwarded-For support by adding the unified2 extra header or
# overwriting the source or destination IP address (depending on flow
# direction) with the one reported in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header.
# This is helpful when reviewing alerts for traffic that is being reverse
# or forward proxied.
xff:
enabled: no
# Two operation modes are available, "extra-data" and "overwrite". Note
# that in the "overwrite" mode, if the reported IP address in the HTTP
# X-Forwarded-For header is of a different version of the packet
# received, it will fall-back to "extra-data" mode.
mode: extra-data
# Two proxy deployments are supported, "reverse" and "forward". In
# a "reverse" deployment the IP address used is the last one, in a
# "forward" deployment the first IP address is used.
deployment: reverse
# Header name where the actual IP address will be reported, if more
# than one IP address is present, the last IP address will be the
# one taken into consideration.
header: X-Forwarded-For
# a line based log of HTTP requests (no alerts)
- http-log:
enabled: no
filename: http.log
append: yes
#extended: yes # enable this for extended logging information
#custom: yes # enabled the custom logging format (defined by customformat)
#customformat: "%{%D-%H:%M:%S}t.%z %{X-Forwarded-For}i %H %m %h %u %s %B %a:%p -> %A:%P"
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# a line based log of TLS handshake parameters (no alerts)
- tls-log:
enabled: no # Log TLS connections.
filename: tls.log # File to store TLS logs.
append: yes
#extended: yes # Log extended information like fingerprint
#custom: yes # enabled the custom logging format (defined by customformat)
#customformat: "%{%D-%H:%M:%S}t.%z %a:%p -> %A:%P %v %n %d %D"
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# output TLS transaction where the session is resumed using a
# session id
#session-resumption: no
# output module to store certificates chain to disk
- tls-store:
enabled: no
#certs-log-dir: certs # directory to store the certificates files
# a line based log of DNS requests and/or replies (no alerts)
# Note: not available when Rust is enabled (--enable-rust).
- dns-log:
enabled: no
filename: dns.log
append: yes
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# Packet log... log packets in pcap format. 3 modes of operation: "normal"
# "multi" and "sguil".
#
# In normal mode a pcap file "filename" is created in the default-log-dir,
# or are as specified by "dir".
# In multi mode, a file is created per thread. This will perform much
# better, but will create multiple files where 'normal' would create one.
# In multi mode the filename takes a few special variables:
# - %n -- thread number
# - %i -- thread id
# - %t -- timestamp (secs or secs.usecs based on 'ts-format'
# E.g. filename: pcap.%n.%t
#
# Note that it's possible to use directories, but the directories are not
# created by Suricata. E.g. filename: pcaps/%n/log.%s will log into the
# per thread directory.
#
# Also note that the limit and max-files settings are enforced per thread.
# So the size limit when using 8 threads with 1000mb files and 2000 files
# is: 8*1000*2000 ~ 16TiB.
#
# In Sguil mode "dir" indicates the base directory. In this base dir the
# pcaps are created in th directory structure Sguil expects:
#
# $sguil-base-dir/YYYY-MM-DD/$filename.<timestamp>
#
# By default all packets are logged except:
# - TCP streams beyond stream.reassembly.depth
# - encrypted streams after the key exchange
#
- pcap-log:
enabled: no
filename: log.pcap
# File size limit. Can be specified in kb, mb, gb. Just a number
# is parsed as bytes.
limit: 1000mb
# If set to a value will enable ring buffer mode. Will keep Maximum of "max-files" of size "limit"
max-files: 2000
# Compression algorithm for pcap files. Possible values: none, lz4.
# Enabling compression is incompatible with the sguil mode. Note also
# that on Windows, enabling compression will *increase* disk I/O.
compression: none
# Further options for lz4 compression. The compression level can be set
# to a value between 0 and 16, where higher values result in higher
# compression.
#lz4-checksum: no
#lz4-level: 0
mode: normal # normal, multi or sguil.
# Directory to place pcap files. If not provided the default log
# directory will be used. Required for "sguil" mode.
#dir: /nsm_data/
#ts-format: usec # sec or usec second format (default) is filename.sec usec is filename.sec.usec
use-stream-depth: no #If set to "yes" packets seen after reaching stream inspection depth are ignored. "no" logs all packets
honor-pass-rules: no # If set to "yes", flows in which a pass rule matched will stopped being logged.
# a full alerts log containing much information for signature writers
# or for investigating suspected false positives.
- alert-debug:
enabled: no
filename: alert-debug.log
append: yes
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# alert output to prelude (https://www.prelude-siem.org/) only
# available if Suricata has been compiled with --enable-prelude
- alert-prelude:
enabled: yes
profile: suricata
log-packet-content: no
log-packet-header: yes
# Stats.log contains data from various counters of the Suricata engine.
- stats:
enabled: yes
filename: stats.log
append: yes # append to file (yes) or overwrite it (no)
totals: yes # stats for all threads merged together
threads: no # per thread stats
#null-values: yes # print counters that have value 0
# a line based alerts log similar to fast.log into syslog
- syslog:
enabled: no
# reported identity to syslog. If ommited the program name (usually
# suricata) will be used.
#identity: "suricata"
facility: local5
#level: Info ## possible levels: Emergency, Alert, Critical,
## Error, Warning, Notice, Info, Debug
# a line based information for dropped packets in IPS mode
- drop:
enabled: no
filename: drop.log
append: yes
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
# Output module for storing files on disk. Files are stored in a
# directory names consisting of the first 2 characters of the
# SHA256 of the file. Each file is given its SHA256 as a filename.
#
# When a duplicate file is found, the existing file is touched to
# have its timestamps updated.
#
# Unlike the older filestore, metadata is not written out by default
# as each file should already have a "fileinfo" record in the
# eve.log. If write-fileinfo is set to yes, the each file will have
# one more associated .json files that consists of the fileinfo
# record. A fileinfo file will be written for each occurrence of the
# file seen using a filename suffix to ensure uniqueness.
#
# To prune the filestore directory see the "suricatactl filestore
# prune" command which can delete files over a certain age.
- file-store:
version: 2
enabled: no
# Set the directory for the filestore. If the path is not
# absolute will be be relative to the default-log-dir.
#dir: filestore
# Write out a fileinfo record for each occurrence of a
# file. Disabled by default as each occurrence is already logged
# as a fileinfo record to the main eve-log.
#write-fileinfo: yes
# Force storing of all files. Default: no.
#force-filestore: yes
# Override the global stream-depth for sessions in which we want
# to perform file extraction. Set to 0 for unlimited.
#stream-depth: 0
# Uncomment the following variable to define how many files can
# remain open for filestore by Suricata. Default value is 0 which
# means files get closed after each write
#max-open-files: 1000
# Force logging of checksums, available hash functions are md5,
# sha1 and sha256. Note that SHA256 is automatically forced by
# the use of this output module as it uses the SHA256 as the
# file naming scheme.
#force-hash: [sha1, md5]
# NOTE: X-Forwarded configuration is ignored if write-fileinfo is disabled
# HTTP X-Forwarded-For support by adding an extra field or overwriting
# the source or destination IP address (depending on flow direction)
# with the one reported in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. This is
# helpful when reviewing alerts for traffic that is being reverse
# or forward proxied.
xff:
enabled: no
# Two operation modes are available, "extra-data" and "overwrite".
mode: extra-data
# Two proxy deployments are supported, "reverse" and "forward". In
# a "reverse" deployment the IP address used is the last one, in a
# "forward" deployment the first IP address is used.
deployment: reverse
# Header name where the actual IP address will be reported, if more
# than one IP address is present, the last IP address will be the
# one taken into consideration.
header: X-Forwarded-For
# output module to store extracted files to disk (old style, deprecated)
#
# The files are stored to the log-dir in a format "file.<id>" where <id> is
# an incrementing number starting at 1. For each file "file.<id>" a meta
# file "file.<id>.meta" is created. Before they are finalized, they will
# have a ".tmp" suffix to indicate that they are still being processed.
#
# If include-pid is yes, then the files are instead "file.<pid>.<id>", with
# meta files named as "file.<pid>.<id>.meta"
#
# File extraction depends on a lot of things to be fully done:
# - file-store stream-depth. For optimal results, set this to 0 (unlimited)
# - http request / response body sizes. Again set to 0 for optimal results.
# - rules that contain the "filestore" keyword.
- file-store:
enabled: no # set to yes to enable
log-dir: files # directory to store the files
force-magic: no # force logging magic on all stored files
# force logging of checksums, available hash functions are md5,
# sha1 and sha256
#force-hash: [md5]
force-filestore: no # force storing of all files
# override global stream-depth for sessions in which we want to
# perform file extraction. Set to 0 for unlimited.
#stream-depth: 0
#waldo: file.waldo # waldo file to store the file_id across runs
# uncomment to disable meta file writing
#write-meta: no
# uncomment the following variable to define how many files can
# remain open for filestore by Suricata. Default value is 0 which
# means files get closed after each write
#max-open-files: 1000
include-pid: no # set to yes to include pid in file names
# output module to log files tracked in a easily parsable JSON format
- file-log:
enabled: no
filename: files-json.log
append: yes
#filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
force-magic: no # force logging magic on all logged files
# force logging of checksums, available hash functions are md5,
# sha1 and sha256
#force-hash: [md5]
# Log TCP data after stream normalization
# 2 types: file or dir. File logs into a single logfile. Dir creates
# 2 files per TCP session and stores the raw TCP data into them.
# Using 'both' will enable both file and dir modes.
#
# Note: limited by stream.depth
- tcp-data:
enabled: no
type: file
filename: tcp-data.log
# Log HTTP body data after normalization, dechunking and unzipping.
# 2 types: file or dir. File logs into a single logfile. Dir creates
# 2 files per HTTP session and stores the normalized data into them.
# Using 'both' will enable both file and dir modes.
#
# Note: limited by the body limit settings
- http-body-data:
enabled: no
type: file
filename: http-data.log
# Lua Output Support - execute lua script to generate alert and event
# output.
# Documented at:
# https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/output/lua-output.html
- lua:
enabled: no
#scripts-dir: /etc/suricata/lua-output/
scripts:
# - script1.lua
# Logging configuration. This is not about logging IDS alerts/events, but
# output about what Suricata is doing, like startup messages, errors, etc.
logging:
# The default log level, can be overridden in an output section.
# Note that debug level logging will only be emitted if Suricata was
# compiled with the --enable-debug configure option.
#
# This value is overridden by the SC_LOG_LEVEL env var.
default-log-level: notice
# The default output format. Optional parameter, should default to
# something reasonable if not provided. Can be overridden in an
# output section. You can leave this out to get the default.
#
# This value is overridden by the SC_LOG_FORMAT env var.
#default-log-format: "[%i] %t - (%f:%l) <%d> (%n) -- "
# A regex to filter output. Can be overridden in an output section.
# Defaults to empty (no filter).
#
# This value is overridden by the SC_LOG_OP_FILTER env var.
default-output-filter:
# Define your logging outputs. If none are defined, or they are all
# disabled you will get the default - console output.
outputs:
- console:
enabled: yes
# type: json
- file:
enabled: yes
level: info
filename: /var/log/suricata/suricata.log
# type: json
- syslog:
enabled: no
facility: local5
format: "[%i] <%d> -- "
# type: json
You can see that the alert log is enabled.Yet when I run sudo suricata -i eth0 -vvvv the file is not created.
