# Logstash as security monitoring/reporting tool

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-as-security-monitoring-reporting-tool/29704>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-as-security-monitoring-reporting-tool/29704 "2015-09-21T13:53:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![felix1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3e96dc/32.png) [@felix1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felix1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-as-security-monitoring-reporting-tool/29704/1 "2015-09-21T13:53:56Z")

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Hi,

we recently deployed the elastic-search/logstash/kibana stack in our infrastructure. Very nice. Now we're wondering wether we could use this information to get out some basic security reporting.

We're looking for a way to have some basic security monitoring, without the need to install a full blown IDS.

The reports we were thinking of:

- brute force pw logins attempts
- DDOS attempts
- sql injection like attacks  
-...

Browsing the web I found:

- [https://github.com/bitsofinfo/logstash-modsecurity](https://github.com/bitsofinfo/logstash-modsecurity)  
which is nice, but only for apache. We're also looking for things to monitor like sftp/ssh logs, tomcat logs
- [http://www.ossec.net/?p=1002](http://www.ossec.net/?p=1002), here we need a full blown IDS, which is currently not what we want.

So does any of you have some experience/plugins/resources we could use to do some basic security reporting with logstash?

thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-as-security-monitoring-reporting-tool/29704/2 "2015-09-22T07:35:19Z")

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This is a bit of a "it depends" answer.  
What sort of logs do you have access to, and what do you think you will need to extract that doesn't exist now?

But things like [Packetbeats](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/index.html) could help get data you don't have.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-as-security-monitoring-reporting-tool/29704/3 "2017-07-06T05:28:28Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:28am UTC