Corelight Network Sensors

Corelight network sensors are available as software or appliances. They use a specialized version of the open-source Zeek (f.k.a., Bro) framework to provide detailed insights into what is happening in your network. This rich source of data covers over thirty-five different protocols and hundreds of different log fields, making it a valuable resource for security operation teams — including Threat Hunters.
Configure Ingestion to LogScale
Configuring a Corelight sensor to send data to LogScale is effortless and quick. Once you have network traffic coming in through the monitoring port of the Corelight sensor, there are only a few things you need to do.
First, you'll need to create a repository in LogScale just for Corelight. Then you'll have to configure Corelight to send data to LogScale.
Preparations in LogScale
You'll need to create a new repository in LogScale to hold the Corelight data. If you're not sure how to do this, see the Create a Repository documentation page.
Once you've created a repository, from that target repository in the LogScale Interface, select the Settings tab and then Packages on the left. From there, choose Marketplace and install the LogScale Package for Corelight (i.e., corelight/sensor), as shown in the screenshot in Figure 249, “Preparations in LogScale”.

Figure 249. Preparations in LogScale
When you select the Corelight package, it will describe what the package provides and other related information. Of most interest is that it will install the required corelight parser. And it will install some overview dashboards that you can edit later to suit your needs.
When it's finished installing, from the Corelight repository, go to
the Settings
tab. In the
Ingest
section, click
on the left
(see
Figure 250, “Corelight Ingest Tokens”).
In the right panel, click Figure 250, “Corelight Ingest Tokens”.
to create a new token. Be sure to assign it the corelight parser. You can see the results of doing this in
Figure 250. Corelight Ingest Tokens
Before leaving this page, view the Corelight token and copy it to your clipboard — or to save it temporarily elsewhere.
Now that you have a repository set up in LogScale to receive data from Corelight, you're ready to configure Corelight.
Configure Corelight
To configure Corelight to send data to LogScale, to the repository created in the previous section, you'll have to log into the Corelight management interface. Navigate to the Sensor menu and choose Export. From there, select Export to Splunk HEC. Despite the label, this is the preferred option for sending logs from Corelight to LogScale.
You'll be presented with a screen asking for several setting values similar to the screenshot shown below in Figure 251, “Configure Corelight”.

Figure 251. Configure Corelight
For the first box, the HEC URL, enter your LogScale service URL
appended with /api/v1/ingest/hec
. For example, if you're
using the LogScale EU Cloud, you would enter,
https://cloud.humio.com/api/v1/ingest/hec
.
In the box labeled, HEC Token, paste in the ingest token you copied
earlier from the target repository above (see
Figure 250, “Corelight Ingest Tokens”).
Then set the Sourcetype Template to
$LOG
, as shown in the
screenshot above.
For the rest of the settings you can probably accept the defaults, initially. However, you may want to check those settings to ensure all of the logs you need are being sent to LogScale — and that you're excluding what you don't want to send.
After a bit, the Corelight logs should be ingested into your LogScale repository. Navigate to the LogScale repository and view the Corelight dashboards to check data is coming in and is displayed as expected.
More Information
Corelight and LogScale's integrated solution helps customers manage security threats and gain visibility across an organization's entire network. LogScale and Corelight have a long established partnership. The LogScale service is used for the Corelight@home program, which provides an easy way to use Corelight with a Raspberry Pi based software sensor.
For Corelight customers wishing to use LogScale purely for their Corelight data, we have a unique pricing offer that provides unlimited ingest. Pricing is based on the size of Corelight sensor.
For more information on using Corelight with LogScale, review these resources: