# New to Elastic - Netflow Data Analysis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elastic-netflow-data-analysis/316073>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elastic-netflow-data-analysis/316073 "2022-10-07T12:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigverm23](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigverm23/32/112550_2.png) [@bigverm23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigverm23)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elastic-netflow-data-analysis/316073/1 "2022-10-07T12:52:33Z")

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good morning all. I am very new to Elastic and am looking for resources/insight on ingesting netflow from firewall logs and help with analysis. We are ingesting a few million events per day and I'd like to get to a point where not only do I get insight on the Netflow basics (top ports, destination, direction, etc) but also we are doing advanced analysis like automating a search for beaconing.

Would anyone be willing to point me in the right direction?

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**Author:** ![techie.antonio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/techie.antonio/32/77423_2.png) [@techie.antonio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/techie.antonio)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elastic-netflow-data-analysis/316073/2 "2022-10-10T07:03:28Z")

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We use ElastiFlow ([https://docs.elastiflow.com](https://docs.elastiflow.com)) for Netflow/IPFIX/sFlow data from our network. Their collector supports a lot more fields than other options and pulls more detail out of those fields. They also provide around 30 pre-built dashboards that can be easily imported into Kibana, and if you have a Platinum Elasticsearch subscription they have 100+ anomaly detection jobs for Elastic's ML engine. These detect things like network attacks and performance problems. There is a free version and a commercial version depending on your needs.

The hardest part of setting up ElastiFlow is first setting up the Elastic Stack, and they provide a tutorial for that as well: [https://docs.elastiflow.com/docs/elastic\_install\_ubuntu](https://docs.elastiflow.com/docs/elastic_install_ubuntu)

IMO ElastiFlow is so far ahead of any other solution for working with netflow data using Elasticsearch that it is the clear and obvious choice. Its better than most purpose-built netflow products as well.

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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:** [November 7, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elastic-netflow-data-analysis/316073/3 "2022-11-07T07:04:23Z")

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