# Tutorial suricata with Kibana 4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 31, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601 "2015-05-31T11:43:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Mister74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@Mister74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mister74)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/1 "2015-05-31T11:43:37Z")

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Hello

You are there a tutorial on installing Kibana 4 with suricata?

thank you

Mz

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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:** [June 1, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/2 "2015-06-01T06:30:19Z")

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Kibana only connects to Elasticsearch, it cannot connect to any other backend.

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**Author:** ![Mister74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@Mister74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mister74)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/3 "2015-06-01T08:06:29Z")

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I misspoke, how to integrate suricata Kibana 4?  
thank you

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/4 "2015-06-01T08:16:54Z")

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If you explain more what "integrate Suricata with Kibana 4" actually means I'm sure you'll get better replies. What problem are you trying to solve? You should assume that people don't know Suricata.

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**Author:** ![Mister74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@Mister74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mister74)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/5 "2015-06-01T08:54:00Z")

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Amazing that you know not Suricata:  
Explanation (via Wikipedia)  
Suricata is an open source-based intrusion detection system (IDS). It was developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). A beta version was released in December 2009, with the first standard release following in July 2010

Therefore, I ask you if there is a tutorial that gives the possibility of integrated suricata to Kibana 4.

Because before we could do it with Kibana 3 (above tutorial)

[https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/\_logstash\_kibana\_and\_suricata\_json\_output](https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/_logstash_kibana_and_suricata_json_output)

thank you

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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:** [June 2, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/6 "2015-06-02T11:04:36Z")

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As mentioned, Kibana only integrates with Elasticsearch, you cannot integrate Kibana with Suricata directly.

If you can get the data into Elasticsearch then you can get it working.

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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, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-suricata-with-kibana-4/1601/7 "2017-07-06T14:18:42Z")

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