4 posts tagged with "logs"

Did you know that Zeek supports log rotation triggers, so that you can do anything you want with a newly rotated batch of logs?

As an incident responder, threat hunter, or detection engineer, getting quickly to your analytics is key for productivity. For network-based visibility and detection, Zeek and Suricata are the bedrock for many security teams. But operationalizing these tools can take a good chunk of time.

So we asked ourselves: How can we make it super easy to work with Zeek and Suricata logs?

Zeek turns packets into structured logs. By default, Zeek generates one file per log type and per rotation timeframe. If you don't want to wrangle files and directly process the output, this short blog post is for you.

Zeek offers many ways to produce and consume logs. In this blog, we explain the various Zeek logging formats and show how you can get the most out of Zeek with Tenzir. We conclude with recommendations for when to use what Zeek format based on your use case.