topic Prevent events from ingesting in Getting Data In

Prevent events from ingesting

ranmys — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:32:40 GMT

Hello,

after connecting AWS add-on and configuration,

I have this query which is filling my index with much unwanted events :

index=cloudtrail "userIdentity.sessionContext.sessionIssuer.userName"=PrismaCloudReadOnlyRole errorCode=success

how can I prevent this username from indexing ?

can I do it on the local .conf file ?

Thanks

Re: Prevent events from ingesting

The_Simko — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:29:42 GMT

Your method to make this work depends on how regular the data is. userIdentity.sessionContext.sessionIssuer.userName sure feels like it comes from JSON. If so, I'd recommend using a sed statement in props.conf on whatever server is first getting hold of parsing phase on the data. For example, on prem either your index or heavy forwarder.

For example, let's say your data is pretty regular and looks like this AWS example:
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "AIDAJ45Q7YFFAREXAMPLE",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Alice",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "Alice" }

On the parsing phase you can add a props.conf that uses sed command to strip that username.
[sourcetype::<whatever>]
SEDCMD-strip_username = s/accountId":"(\d{12})/accountId":"\1/g

Take that example, and adjust if your data doesn't look like the example.

Re: Prevent events from ingesting

livehybrid — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:20:29 GMT

You could use props and transforms to filter out data that you dont want and drop into the nullQueue.

Something like this:

props.conf

[aws:cloudtrail] TRANSFORMS-0 = ignorePrismaCloudRORole

transforms.conf

[ignorePrismaCloudRORole] REGEX = userIdentity\"\:\s\{\"sessionContext\".+\"sessionIssuer[^\}]+\"userName\": \"ignorePrismaCloudReadOnlyRole\"[^}]+ DEST = queue FORMAT = nullQueue