That makes a lot of sense, especially if you wanted the detail in the email as well. We could definitely use some good "reporting of alerts” functionality that would make something like that work. What do people think?
Simon > On 13 Dec 2017, at 21:52, James Sirota <jsir...@apache.org> wrote: > > I think there may be gaps in doing it with the profiler. You can record > stats and counts of different alert types, and maybe even alert ids, but you > can't cross-correlate these IDs to the alert body. At least not in the > profiler. I was thinking about emailing something that looks like a zeppelin > report. You would run it in a cron, export to PDF, and send that out as a > summary. It can be a simple list of alerts that match your rule, or it can > have aggregations, graphics, metrics, KPI screens, etc. That would be the > feature that I would want to discuss and flesh out > > Thanks, > James > > 13.12.2017, 14:26, "Simon Elliston Ball" <si...@simonellistonball.com>: >> We can already do that with profiles I would have thought. Create a profile >> that only picks alerts and then base your emails only from the alert events >> produced by that profile. Would that create the right batching mechanism (at >> a cost of possible higher latency than you might get with a more specific >> alert batcher?) >> >> Simon >> >>> On 13 Dec 2017, at 21:23, James Sirota <jsir...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I agree with Simon. If you email each alert individually you will be >>> overwhelmed. I think a better idea would be to email alert summaries >>> periodically, which is more manageable. This is probably a feature worthy >>> of consideration for Metron. >>> >>> 13.12.2017, 12:19, "Simon Elliston Ball" <si...@simonellistonball.com>: >>>> Metron generates alerts onto a Kafka queue, which can be used to >>>> integrate with Alert management tools, usually some sort of existing alert >>>> aggregation tool. >>>> >>>> An alternative approach common with this is to have a tool like Apache >>>> NiFi attach to the Metron alert feed and send email. >>>> >>>> The solution here would be to have Metron generate alerts (by adding the >>>> is_alert: true flag in the enrichment process) and possibly other flags >>>> like alert_email for example, and then have NiFi use ConsumeKafka and then >>>> filter out the alert only messages in NiFi to use the PutEmail processor >>>> (probably with a ControlRate before it too). >>>> >>>> Something I would caution is that email is not a great way to manage or >>>> send alerts at the volume likely to occur in network monitoring tools. A >>>> spike in network traffic can lead to a very large number of emails, which >>>> tends to then cause you bigger problems. As such we usually find people >>>> want some sort of buffering or aggregation of alerts, hence the use of a >>>> an alert management or ticketing solution in front. >>>> >>>> Simon >>>> >>>>> On 13 Dec 2017, at 19:06, Ahmed Shah <ahmeds...@cmail.carleton.ca> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> Just wondering if Metron has a feature to email alerts based on rules >>>>> that a user defines. >>>>> >>>>> Example: >>>>> Rule A: Email the user 1...@1.com whenever ip_src_addr=100.2.10.* >>>>> Rule B: Email the user 1...@1.com whenever payload contains "critical" >>>>> >>>>> If not, does anyone have any recommendations on where to code these >>>>> rules in the Metron stack that uses attributes from the GROK parser? >>>>> >>>>> -Ahmed >>>>> _______________________________________________________________ >>>>> Ahmed Shah (PMP, M. Eng.) >>>>> Cybersecurity Analyst & Developer >>>>> GCR - Cybersecurity Operations Center >>>>> Carleton University - cugcr.com<https://cugcr.com/tiki/lce/index.php> >>> >>> ------------------- >>> Thank you, >>> >>> James Sirota >>> PMC- Apache Metron >>> jsirota AT apache DOT org > > ------------------- > Thank you, > > James Sirota > PMC- Apache Metron > jsirota AT apache DOT org
