You are the last person I thought would point me toward the splunk CIM. Given the support that Balabit has put behind CEE and then lumberjack and even the experimental patternDB schema (https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-patterndb/blob/master/SCHEMAS.txt) I was sure you would steer me toward lumberjack.

At first glance the splunk CIM appears to be structured around and partially dependant on some of the data flows of the splunk product. I'll continue to review it but at this point I am still open to alternate suggestions.

Evan.

On 06/11/2016 11:45 AM, Scheidler, Balázs wrote:

There's common information model at splunk or the field dictionary of CEF, of arcsight fame.

I would probably use the splunk one, except if you plan to use arcsight at the end.

On Jun 11, 2016 18:32, "Evan Rempel" <erempel@uvic.ca> wrote:
There was a project by Mitre (https://www.mitre.org/) called the Common
Event Expression (https://cee.mitre.org/) that was going to be the
official standard for metadata names for events, but that project has
been stopped.

Other than the two references that the CEE project has for logging
standardization efforts, does anyone know of any major efforts by any
group to define a standard for metadata naming?

Evan.