suricata/doc/userguide/partials/eve-log.yaml

outputs:
  # Extensible Event Format (nicknamed EVE) event log in JSON format
  - eve-log:
      enabled: yes
      filetype: regular #regular|syslog|unix_dgram|unix_stream|redis
      filename: eve.json
      #prefix: "@cee: " # prefix to prepend to each log entry
      # the following are valid when type: syslog above
      #identity: "suricata"
      #facility: local5
      #level: Info ## possible levels: Emergency, Alert, Critical,
                   ## Error, Warning, Notice, Info, Debug
      #redis:
      #  server: 127.0.0.1
      #  port: 6379
      #  async: true ## if redis replies are read asynchronously
      #  mode: list ## possible values: list|lpush (default), rpush, channel|publish
      #             ## lpush and rpush are using a Redis list. "list" is an alias for lpush
      #             ## publish is using a Redis channel. "channel" is an alias for publish
      #  key: suricata ## key or channel to use (default to suricata)
      # Redis pipelining set up. This will enable to only do a query every
      # 'batch-size' events. This should lower the latency induced by network
      # connection at the cost of some memory. There is no flushing implemented
      # so this setting as to be reserved to high traffic suricata.
      #  pipelining:
      #    enabled: yes ## set enable to yes to enable query pipelining
      #    batch-size: 10 ## number of entry to keep in buffer

      # Include top level metadata. Default yes.
      #metadata: no

      types:
        - alert:
            # payload: yes             # enable dumping payload in Base64
            # payload-buffer-size: 4kb # max size of payload buffer to output in eve-log
            # payload-printable: yes   # enable dumping payload in printable (lossy) format
            # packet: yes              # enable dumping of packet (without stream segments)
            # http-body: yes           # enable dumping of http body in Base64
            # http-body-printable: yes # enable dumping of http body in printable format

            # Enable the logging of tagged packets for rules using the
            # "tag" keyword.
            tagged-packets: yes

            # Configure the metadata to be logged along with an
            # alert. The following shows the default configuration
            # which is used if this field is not provided or simply
            # set to a truthful value. Setting of this section is only
            # required if you wish to enable/disable specific fields.
            #metadata:

              # Include the decoded application layer (ie. http, dns)
              app-layer: true

              # Log the the current state of the flow record.
              flow: true

              rule:
                # Log the metadata field from the rule in a structured
                # format.
                metadata: true

                # Log the raw rule text.
                raw: false

            # HTTP X-Forwarded-For support by adding an extra field or overwriting
            # the source or destination IP address (depending on flow direction)
            # with the one reported in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. This is
            # helpful when reviewing alerts for traffic that is being reverse
            # or forward proxied.
            xff:
              enabled: no
              # Two operation modes are available, "extra-data" and "overwrite".
              mode: extra-data
              # Two proxy deployments are supported, "reverse" and "forward". In
              # a "reverse" deployment the IP address used is the last one, in a
              # "forward" deployment the first IP address is used.
              deployment: reverse
              # Header name where the actual IP address will be reported, if more
              # than one IP address is present, the last IP address will be the
              # one taken into consideration.
              header: X-Forwarded-For
        - http:
            extended: yes     # enable this for extended logging information
            # custom allows additional http fields to be included in eve-log
            # the example below adds three additional fields when uncommented
            #custom: [Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Authorization]
        - dns:
            # Use version 2 logging with the new format:
            # dns answers will be logged in one single event
            # rather than an event for each of the answers.
            # Without setting a version the version
            # will fallback to 1 for backwards compatibility.
            version: 2

            # Enable/disable this logger. Default: enabled.
            #enabled: no

            # Control logging of requests and responses:
            # - requests: enable logging of DNS queries
            # - responses: enable logging of DNS answers
            # By default both requests and responses are logged.
            #requests: no
            #responses: no

            # Format of answer logging:
            # - detailed: array item per answer
            # - grouped: answers aggregated by type
            # Default: all
            #answer-format: [detailed, grouped]

            # Answer types to log.
            # Default: all
            #answer-types: [a, aaaa, cname, mx, ns, ptr, txt]
        - dns:
            # Version 1 (deprecated) DNS logger.
            version: 1

            enabled: no
            # control logging of queries and answers
            # default yes, no to disable
            query: yes     # enable logging of DNS queries
            answer: yes    # enable logging of DNS answers
            # control which RR types are logged
            # all enabled if custom not specified
            #custom: [a, aaaa, cname, mx, ns, ptr, txt]
        - tls:
            extended: yes     # enable this for extended logging information
            # output TLS transaction where the session is resumed using a
            # session id
            #session-resumption: no
            # custom allows to control which tls fields that are included
            # in eve-log
            #custom: [subject, issuer, session_resumed, serial, fingerprint, sni, version, not_before, not_after, certificate, chain]
        - files:
            force-magic: no   # force logging magic on all logged files
            # force logging of checksums, available hash functions are md5,
            # sha1 and sha256
            #force-hash: [md5]
        #- drop:
        #    alerts: yes      # log alerts that caused drops
        #    flows: all       # start or all: 'start' logs only a single drop
        #                     # per flow direction. All logs each dropped pkt.
        - smtp:
            #extended: yes # enable this for extended logging information
            # this includes: bcc, message-id, subject, x_mailer, user-agent
            # custom fields logging from the list:
            #  reply-to, bcc, message-id, subject, x-mailer, user-agent, received,
            #  x-originating-ip, in-reply-to, references, importance, priority,
            #  sensitivity, organization, content-md5, date
            #custom: [received, x-mailer, x-originating-ip, relays, reply-to, bcc]
            # output md5 of fields: body, subject
            # for the body you need to set app-layer.protocols.smtp.mime.body-md5
            # to yes
            #md5: [body, subject]

        # NFS logging. Requires Rust.
        - nfs
        # IKEv2 logging. Requires Rust.
        - ikev2
        - ssh
        - stats:
            totals: yes       # stats for all threads merged together
            threads: no       # per thread stats
            deltas: no        # include delta values
        - dhcp:
            # DHCP logging requires Rust.
            enabled: yes
            # When extended mode is on, all DHCP messages are logged
            # with full detail. When extended mode is off (the
            # default), just enough information to map a MAC address
            # to an IP address is logged.
            extended: no
        # bi-directional flows
        - flow
        # uni-directional flows
        #- netflow

        # An event for logging metadata, specifically pktvars when
        # they are set, but will also include the full metadata object.
        #- metadata