While the ELK cluster is typically used for live monitoring, Winlogbeat can be tweaked to manually send "cold logs," or old, inactive Windows Event Logs (EVTX) to ELK manually. This functionality allows an analyst to take EVTX files from images of systems collected and utilize the functionality of the ELK stack for their investigations - … Continue reading Manually upload EVTX log files to ELK with Winlogbeat and PowerShell
Previously I had written a guide on Creating a Single-Node ELK Stack; covering what to do when you want create and utilize The Elastic Stack (also formally ELK) on a limited capacity, single-node basis. When assisting my roommate in creating an ELK stack of his own, I realized I had not yet described the process … Continue reading Creating a Multi-Node ELK Stack
The Elastic Stack (ELK) is an amazing index-searching tool, utilizing services such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to index and store logs and Beats Data Shippers such as Winlogbeat to ship them there. However, ELK can be just as scary, storing data from a plethora of different machines across one or more networks ripe for … Continue reading ELK + Beats: Securing Communication with Logstash by using SSL
elastic.co At the end of one of my prior posts I had mentioned Beats Data Shippers; the "nitty-gritty" of how logs get from your desired endpoints to your shiny ELK stack. If you are uncertain how this works and also somehow ended up here, then you are about to learn! There are many different types … Continue reading Sending Logs to ELK with Winlogbeat and Sysmon
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