Santa module
editSanta module
editThe santa
module collects and parses logs from
Google Santa, a security
tool for macOS that monitors process executions and can blacklist/whitelist
binaries.
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
Read the quick start to learn how to configure and run modules.
Compatibility
editThe santa
module was tested with logs from Santa 0.9.14.
This module is available for MacOS only.
Configure the module
editYou can further refine the behavior of the santa
module by specifying
variable settings in the
modules.d/santa.yml
file, or overriding settings at the command line.
The module is by default configured to read logs from /var/log/santa.log
.
- module: santa log: enabled: true var.paths: ["/var/log/santa.log"] var.input: "file"
Variable settings
editEach fileset has separate variable settings for configuring the behavior of the
module. If you don’t specify variable settings, the santa
module uses
the defaults.
For advanced use cases, you can also override input settings. See Override input settings.
When you specify a setting at the command line, remember to prefix the
setting with the module name, for example, santa.log.var.paths
instead of log.var.paths
.
log
fileset settings
edit-
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.
Example dashboard
editThis module comes with a sample dashboard showing and overview of the processes that are executing.
Fields
editFor a description of each field in the module, see the exported fields section.