---
title: Pensando module
description: The pensando module parses distributed firewall logs created by the Pensando distributed services card (DSC). When you run the module, it performs a few...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/filebeat-module-pensando
products:
  - Beats
  - Filebeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Pensando module
The `pensando` module parses distributed firewall logs created by the [Pensando](http://pensando.io/) 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

<tip>
  Read the [quick start](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/filebeat-installation-configuration) to learn how to configure and run modules.
</tip>


## Compatibility

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

## Configure the module

You can further refine the behavior of the `pensando` module by specifying [variable settings](#pensando-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):
```yaml
- module: pensando
  access:
    enabled: true
    var.syslog_host: 0.0.0.0
    var.syslog_port: [9001]
```


### Variable settings

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](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/advanced-settings).
<tip>
  When you specify a setting at the command line, remember to prefix the setting with the module name, for example, `pensando.dfw.var.paths` instead of `dfw.var.paths`.
</tip>


### `dfw` log fileset settings

<definitions>
  <definition term="var.paths">
    An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All patterns supported by [Go Glob](https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#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.
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Example dashboard

This module comes with a sample dashboard. For example:
![filebeat pensando dfw](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/images/filebeat-pensando-dfw.png)

## Fields

For a description of each field in the module, see the [exported fields](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/exported-fields-pensando) section.