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Kibana

From https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana :

Kibana lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack, so you can do anything from learning why you're getting paged at 2:00 a.m. to understanding the impact rain might have on your quarterly numbers.

Screenshot

images/kibana/kibana.png

Authentication

If you're using our default SSO authentication, then you can login using your normal Sguil/Squert/Kibana username and password.

If you switch to Elastic authentication, then you will have a separate username and password to login to Kibana. For more information, please see the Elastic Auth section.

Configuration

  • Configuration files for Kibana can be found in /etc/kibana/.
  • Other configuration options for Kibana can be found in /etc/nsm/securityonion.conf.
  • Kibana logs can be found in /var/log/kibana/.

Pivoting

Kibana uses multiple hyperlinked fields to accelerate investigations and decision-making:

Transcript

When present, clicking the _id field allows an analyst to pivot to transcript via CapMe.

Indicator Dashboard

When present, clicking these fields allows an analyst to pivot to the Indicator dashboard, where a variety of information is presented relative to the term:value.

uid
source_ip
source_port
destination_ip
destination_port

Search Results

Search results in the dashboards and through Discover are limited to the first 10 results for a particular query. If you don't feel like this is adequate after narrowing your search, you can adjust the value for discover:sampleSize in Kibana by navigating to Management -> Advanced Settings and changing the value. It may be best to change this value incrementally to see how it affects performance.

Search Request Timeout

Sometimes searches can timeout in Kibana. To increase the timeout value to wait longer for results from Elasticsearch, we can adjust the value for elasticsearch.requestTimeout in /etc/kibana/kibana.yml and restart Kibana.

For example to increase the timeout from the default of 30 seconds to 90 seconds:

sudo vi /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

Add the following line:

elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 90000

Finally, restart Kibana:

sudo so-kibana-restart

Timestamps

By default, Kibana will display timestamps in the timezone of your local browser. If you would prefer timestamps in UTC, you can go to Management --> Advanced Settings and set dateFormat:tz to UTC.

Plugins

Warning

Please note that we do not officially support installing plugins. Do so at your own risk!

To add a plugin to Kibana, you can expose the plugins directory to the host filesystem and then copy your plugins to that directory. For example, to load the kbn_network plugin you can do something like the following.

Create a new directory in the host filesystem called /nsm/kibana/plugins to store plugins:

sudo mkdir -p /nsm/kibana/plugins

Download your desired plugin and decompress it to /nsm/kibana/plugins. For example:

wget -qO- https://github.com/dlumbrer/kbn_network/releases/download/6.5.X-1/network_vis-6-5.tar.gz | sudo tar zxv -C /nsm/kibana/plugins

Kibana now requires jquery.flot.log when re-optimizing, so let's create that:

sudo touch /nsm/kibana/jquery.flot.log

Modify KIBANA_OPTIONS in /etc/nsm/securityonion.conf to mount /nsm/kibana/plugins directory and jquery.flot.log into the container:

sudo sed -i 's|^KIBANA_OPTIONS.*$|KIBANA_OPTIONS="--volume /nsm/kibana/plugins:/usr/share/kibana/plugins:ro --volume /nsm/kibana/jquery.flot.log:/usr/share/kibana/src/ui/public/flot-charts/jquery.flot.log"|g' /etc/nsm/securityonion.conf

Restart Kibana:

sudo so-kibana-restart

Monitor Kibana log file for errors:

tail -f /var/log/kibana/kibana.log

Kibana may take a few minutes to re-optimize. Once that's complete, you should be able to log into Kibana and test your new plugin.