[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng and OSQUERY
Evan Rempel
erempel at uvic.ca
Tue Apr 18 18:36:21 UTC 2017
The fact that your error "Received more fields than expected" went away implies that the number of fields is correct.
Without any errors or any data in the table your trouble shooting options are limited.
I would make another file based destination for syslog-ng
destination d_osquery_copy {
file("/var/osquery/syslog" template(t_csv));
};
And add this destination to your log statement.
log {
source(s_osquery);
destination(d_osquery);
destination(d_osquery_copy);
};
Then you will have a copy of the data that is being sent to osquery and you should be able to get help from the osquery community.
One other thing to note is that I did not provide you with the correct CSV of the MESSAGE portion. If the $MESSAGE contains double quotes
then this will not be a correctly formatted CSV field.
you can make a rewrite rule for the message
rewrite r_csv_message {
set("$MESSAGE", value("CSVMESSAGE") );
subst("\"","\\\"", value("CSVMESSAGE"), flags(global) );
};
then you need to invoke this rewrite rule in your log statement.
log {
source(s_osquery);
rewrite(r_csv_message);
destination(d_osquery);
destination(d_osquery_copy);
};
And finally your template needs to use the CSVMESSAGE rather than the MESSAGE
template t_csv { template("\"${ISODATE}\", \"${HOST}\", \"${LEVEL_NUM}\", \"${FACILITY}\", \"${PROGRAM}\", \"${CSVMESSAGE}\"\n"); template_escape(no); };
I hope that helps too.
Evan.
On 04/18/2017 10:22 AM, Dwijadas Dey wrote:
> Hi
> Evan
> Thanks you for a quick reply. After changing the template as suggested by you, the error goes away but the syslog table in OSQUERY does not get filled up. May be the OSQUERY expects 7 entry for the syslog table while the template has six fields.
>
> > osquery> .schema syslog
> > CREATE TABLE syslog_events(`time` BIGINT, `datetime` TEXT, `host` TEXT,
> > `severity` INTEGER, `facility` TEXT, `tag` TEXT, `message` TEXT);
> No verbose error as well.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca <mailto:erempel at uvic.ca>> wrote:
>
> The documentation from OSQuery is for rsyslog and shows that a csv set of values is needed.
>
> string="%timestamp:::date-rfc3339,csv%,%hostname:::csv%,%syslogseverity:::csv%,%syslogfacility-text:::csv%,%syslogtag:::csv%,%msg:::csv%\n"
>
> In syslog-ng this format becomes
>
> template t_csv { template("\"${ISODATE}\", \"${HOST}\", \"${LEVEL_NUM}\", \"${FACILITY}\", \"${PROGRAM}\", \"${MESSAGE}\"\n"); template_escape(no); };
>
> Give that a try and see how things go.
>
>
>
> On 04/18/2017 08:57 AM, Dwijadas Dey wrote:
>> Hi
>> Peter
>> I am trying to send syslogs to a named pipe and on the other end OSQUERY will consume the syslogs from the named pipe. Once OSQUERY consumes syslogs, it will sends the logs to RocksDB that comes along with OSQUERY. I have been able to send the syslogs to named pipe ( verified with cat command ) but on the other hand OSQUERY did consume the logs but could not send these logs to the table due to format error.
>>
>> The schema of syslog table in OSQUERY
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> osquery> .schema syslog
>> CREATE TABLE syslog_events(`time` BIGINT, `datetime` TEXT, `host` TEXT, `severity` INTEGER, `facility` TEXT, `tag` TEXT, `message` TEXT);
>>
>> Conf file in syslog-ng (/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/osquery.conf)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> source s_osquery {
>> system();
>> };
>>
>> template t_csv {
>> template("'${HOUR}${MIN}${SEC}',\t'${ISODATE}',\t'${HOST}',\t'${TAG}',\t'${LEVEL}',\t'${FACILITY}',\t'${MSG}'\n");
>> # template("$timestamp\t${ISODATE}\t{$HOST}\t$syslogseverity\t$syslogfacility\t$syslogtag\t$msg\n");
>> template_escape(no);
>> };
>>
>> destination d_osquery {
>> pipe("/var/osquery/syslog_pipe" template(t_csv));
>> };
>>
>> log {
>> source(s_osquery);
>> destination(d_osquery);
>> };
>>
>> I am trying to match the above template to rsyslog format for OSQUERY
>>
>> https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/syslog/#rsyslog-versions-7_1 <https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/syslog/#rsyslog-versions-7_1>
>>
>> If i cat the pipe, i can see the syslogs.
>>
>> # cat /var/osquery/syslog_pipe
>>
>> '155349', '2017-04-18T15:53:49+00:00', 'ubuntu', '26', 'info', 'auth', 'Disconnected from 61.177.172.51 port 20876 [preauth]'
>> '155349', '2017-04-18T15:53:49+00:00', 'ubuntu', '55', 'notice', 'authpriv', 'PAM 2 more authentication failures; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=61.177.172.51 user=root'
>>
>>
>> The above logs contains exactly 7 fields as required by OSQUERY syslog table as described above.
>>
>>
>> The error that i am getting at the moment -
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> E0418 15:50:39.131995 4229 syslog.cpp:173] Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9b', 'err', 'local3', 'severity=2 location=syslog.cpp:173 message=Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9d', 'notice', 'local3', 'severity=0 location=file_events.cpp:68 message=Added file event listener to: /root/.ssh/**
>> E0418 15:50:39.132355 4229 syslog.cpp:173] Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9b', 'err', 'local3', 'severity=2 location=syslog.cpp:173 message=Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9d', 'notice', 'local3', 'severity=0 location=file_events.cpp:68 message=Added file event listener to: /home/*/.ssh/**
>> E0418 15:50:39.132758 4229 syslog.cpp:173] Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9b', 'err', 'local3', 'severity=2 location=syslog.cpp:173 message=Received more fields than expected in line: ''154852', '2017-04-18T15:48:52+00:00', 'ubuntu', '9d', 'notice', 'local3', 'severity=0 location=file_events.cpp:68 message=Added file event listener to: /tmp/**
>> I0418 15:50:39.133230 4229 events.cpp:767] Event publisher syslog run loop terminated for reason: Too many errors in syslog parsing.
>>
>> I think the issue is with the template definition which needs to match with the template with rsyslog as described in the above link.
>>
>> I will appreciate if someone can point out the issues in template and how it should be in syslog-ng.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik at balabit.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do you try to achieve? Sending syslog messages to OSquery or collecting OSquery logs by syslog-ng?
>>
>> /me now has a test environment installed
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik at balabit.com>>
>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/ <https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/>
>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Dwijadas Dey <dwijad at gmail.com <mailto:dwijad at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> Robert
>> You are right, i am trying the same with a named pipe so that OSQUERY consume syslogs as pointed by Evan. There are plenty of documents showing the same with rsyslog but not with syslog-ng.
>>
>> This is what my syslog configuration for osquery:-
>>
>> /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/osquery.conf
>>
>> source s_osquery {
>> # system();
>> pipe("/var/osquery/syslog_pipe");
>> # unix-stream("/dev/log");
>> };
>> #filter osqueryd {
>> # program("^osqueryd.*");
>> #};
>> destination d_osquery {
>> file("/var/log/osquery/osqueryd.results.log" template("$(format-json --scope selected_macros --scope nv_pairs)\n"));
>> };
>> log {
>> source(s_osquery);
>> # filter(osqueryd);
>> destination(d_osquery);
>> };
>>
>> But this does not produce any logs for OSQUERY. I have checked , the name piped has been created.
>>
>> # ls -l /var/osquery/syslog_pipe
>> pr--rw---- 1 root adm 0 Apr 14 15:41 /var/osquery/syslog_pipe
>>
>> But when i try to check what logs are passing through the pipe using following command, no message shows up.
>> # cat /var/osquery/syslog_pipe
>>
>> I have correct options set in OSQUERY configuration file in /etc/osquery/osquery.conf.
>>
>> ..................
>> ..................
>> "logger_plugin": "syslog",
>> "enable_syslog": "true",
>> "syslog_pipe_path": "/var/osquery/syslog_pipe",
>> ..................
>> ..................
>> I think Evan can point me the right configuration for syslog-ng ( version 3.5.6 in ubuntu 16 )
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Fekete, Róbert <robert.fekete at balabit.com <mailto:robert.fekete at balabit.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that by default, osquery logs JSON messages into a file. ( https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment/logging/ <https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment/logging/> )
>> You can use this file in a syslog-ng source, and parse the JSON messages with the json parser (note that you need a recent syslog-ng OSE for this), see https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/json-parser.html <https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/json-parser.html> .
>>
>>
>> The above Osquery page mentions that it can send log messages directly to syslog (instead of a file), but I haven't found how you can actually configure it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Dwijadas Dey <dwijad at gmail.com <mailto:dwijad at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> List users
>> Is it possible to send OSQUERY logs to syslog-ng 3.5 In the OSQUERY docs <https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment/syslog/> rsyslog is configured to write logs to syslog. Does the same method applies to syslog-ng 3.5 ?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>>
>>
>
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Evan Rempel erempel at uvic.ca
Senior Systems Administrator 250.721.7691
Data Centre Services, University Systems, University of Victoria
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