# Syslog data from external device into ELK Stack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287 "2021-08-24T03:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@pooch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pooch)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287/1 "2021-08-24T03:04:22Z")

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I have ELK collecting logs from all of my pods within my Kubernetes cluster. I would also like to collect logs from an external PA firewall (syslog) and have them processed into Elasticsearch. I am a bit confused on how to proceed.

1. Do I expose Filebeat to to the external world using an ingress?
2. Can I even ship syslog data using HTTP?
3. Am I going about this all wrong?

Much thanks for your input.

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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:** [August 24, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287/2 "2021-08-24T03:40:33Z")

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1. If you want to send to it as a syslog listening endpoint, it needs to be suitably exposed
2. rsyslog would speak http directly to Elasticsearch with it's integration
3. Nope!

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**Author:** ![pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@pooch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pooch)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287/3 "2021-08-24T20:57:55Z")

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Thank you for your input Mark!

Hmmm I tried to create a service and an ingress for Filebeat to to intake `syslog` data but it seems like this is not yet supported.

```auto
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: panos-beat-svc
spec:
  selector:
    release: filebeat
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - name: http
    protocol: UDP
    port: 80
    targetPort: 9001
  - name: http
    protocol: TCP
    port: 80
    targetPort: 9001

```

```auto
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: beats-ingress
  namespace: elk
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/whitelist-source-range: x.x.x.x/28
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/http2-push-preload: 'true'
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-ssl-verify: 'on'
spec:
  rules:
  - host: beats.dev.internal.blah.com
    http:
      paths:
        - path: /
          pathType: Prefix
          backend:
            service:
              name: panos-beat-svc
              port: 
                number: 9001
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - beats.dev.internal.blah.com
    secretName: beats-tls

```

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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:** [August 24, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287/4 "2021-08-24T22:03:49Z")

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Sorry, I'm not much use on kubernetes!

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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:** [September 21, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/syslog-data-from-external-device-into-elk-stack/282287/5 "2021-09-21T22:04:45Z")

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