After setting is_alert to true, this field is now shown in my event in
Kibana. I would expect there also to be a field "threat:triage:level" in
those same events (if my rules work?) 

On 2017-09-25 16:46, zeo...@gmail.com wrote:

> I was quickly reading through this on my mobile device so sorry if I'm off 
> base here, but it may be because threat.triage.level is changed to 
> threat:triage:level just before indexing due to the inability to use a period 
> in keys on older versions of ES.  Not sure exactly what you mean by you don't 
> get a threat.triage.level field. 
> 
> Jon 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017, 19:34 Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote: 
> 
>> Next problem:
>> 
>> I'm setting the "is_alert" field to true. It shows up in Kibana, but I
>> don't get a threat.triage.level field which means that either my
>> riskLevelRules rules don't trigger or something else goes wrong.
>> 
>> How and where can I look for additional information on why my rules
>> might not be working? (Metron UI accepts my JSON without issues)
>> 
>> On 2017-09-25 13:39, Laurens Vets wrote:
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> On 2017-09-25 13:16, Simon Elliston Ball wrote:
>>>> The second statement overwrites the first, but also uses the previous
>>>> value.
>>>> 
>>>> Technically that is an or. Note this construct is designed to allow
>>>> multiple different trigger conditions to make is_alert true, hence the
>>>> second one being is_alert := is_alert || something_else.
>>>> 
>>>> && is bitwise and
>>>> || is bitwise or
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
>>>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 21:12, Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks! Followup question, the below is_alert 'rules' in the snippet
>>>>> from
>>>>> http://apache.website-solution.net/metron/0.4.1/site-book/use-cases/geographic_login_outliers/index.html,
>>>>> are those an AND or OR?
>>>>> 
>>>>> "threatIntel": {
>>>>> "fieldMap": {
>>>>> "stellar" : {
>>>>> "config" : [
>>>>> "geo_distance_distr:= STATS_MERGE( PROFILE_GET(
>>>>> 'geo_distribution_from_centroid', 'global', PROFILE_FIXED( 2,
>>>>> 'MINUTES')))",
>>>>> "dist_median := STATS_PERCENTILE(geo_distance_distr, 50.0)",
>>>>> "dist_sd := STATS_SD(geo_distance_distr)",
>>>>> "geo_outlier := ABS(dist_median - geo_distance) >=
>>>>> 5*dist_sd",
>>>>> "is_alert := exists(is_alert) && is_alert",
>>>>> "is_alert := is_alert || (geo_outlier != null && geo_outlier
>>>>> == true)",
>>>>> "geo_distance_distr := null"
>>>>> ]
>>>>> }
>>>>> },
>>>>> 
>>>>> For instance, can the 2nd is_alert line overwrite the value assigned
>>>>> in the first is_alert rule?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2017-09-25 11:13, Simon Elliston Ball wrote:
>>>>>> Usually you would have the is_alert set based on more complex rules,
>>>>>> and then potentially have different rules to determine the
>>>>>> importance
>>>>>> of the alert, so they do tend to serve different purposes.
>>>>>> For example a triage rule might be set on levels of an indicator
>>>>>> after
>>>>>> is_alert has been triggered by a simple presence of a non-zero
>>>>>> result
>>>>>> for that indicator, e.g. is it 2x std_devs, or 4x std_devs as
>>>>>> different rule levels. We're adding the ability to make score a
>>>>>> stellar statement which simplifies this further by allowing score to
>>>>>> be a function, but thresholds are still useful to determine the text
>>>>>> content of the alert for example.
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 19:09, Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote:
>>>>>>> Oh, I didn't know I had to set is_alert to True.
>>>>>>> Doesn't that mean that we have to add all rules twice? First to
>>>>>>> check whether is_alert needs to be set to True. Next to apply the
>>>>>>> actual scores?
>>>>>>> On 2017-09-25 11:00, Simon Elliston Ball wrote:
>>>>>>>> the _score field is actually an elastic search matching score
>>>>>>>> field,
>>>>>>>> and is not relevant to metron. You should see the scores in the
>>>>>>>> threat:triage:score field. However, your rules will only be run if
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> telemetry has is_alert set true, so you should ensure that the
>>>>>>>> enrichment phase sets is_alert: true somewhere for alerts you want
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> go to triage?
>>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 18:46, Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I have the following configuration:
>>>>>>>>> "threatIntel": {
>>>>>>>>> "fieldMap": {},
>>>>>>>>> "fieldToTypeMap": {},
>>>>>>>>> "config": {},
>>>>>>>>> "triageConfig": {
>>>>>>>>> "riskLevelRules": [
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>> "name": "Rule1",
>>>>>>>>> "comment": "Checks whatever 1.",
>>>>>>>>> "rule": "test == \"false\"",
>>>>>>>>> "score": 20,
>>>>>>>>> "reason": null
>>>>>>>>> },
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>> "name": "Rule1",
>>>>>>>>> "comment": "Checks whatever 2.",
>>>>>>>>> "rule": "test2 == \"False\"",
>>>>>>>>> "score": 20,
>>>>>>>>> "reason": null
>>>>>>>>> },
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>> "name": "Rule3",
>>>>>>>>> "comment": "Checks whatever 2.",
>>>>>>>>> "rule": "test3 == \"No\"",
>>>>>>>>> "score": 20,
>>>>>>>>> "reason": null
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> ],
>>>>>>>>> "aggregator": "SUM",
>>>>>>>>> "aggregationConfig": {}
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> },
>>>>>>>>> I have no additional configuration in enrichment besides filling
>>>>>>>>> a specific with true or false based on a Stellar expression.
>>>>>>>>> I expected that when events would match my above rules, the
>>>>>>>>> _score field would be filled in. That does not seem to be the
>>>>>>>>> case.
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone know what I might be missing?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jon

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