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Datasources

StreamAlert supports the following services as datasources:

  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Kinesis Streams
  • AWS SNS

These services above can accept data from:

  • Log Forwarding Agents
  • Custom Applications
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS CloudWatch Events
  • And more

To configure datasources, read datasource configuration

Amazon S3

StreamAlert supports data analysis and alerting for logs written to Amazon S3 buckets. This is achieved via Amazon S3 Event Notifications from an event type of s3:ObjectCreated:*.

Example AWS use-cases:

  • AWS Config logs
  • S3 Server Access logs

Example non-AWS use-cases:

  • Host logs (syslog, auditd, osquery, ...)
  • Network logs (Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, ...)
  • Web Application logs (Apache, nginx, ...)
  • SaaS logs (Box, GSuite, OneLogin, ...)

AWS Kinesis Streams

StreamAlert also utilizes AWS Kinesis Streams for real-time data ingestion and analysis. By default, StreamAlert creates an AWS Kinesis stream per cluster.

Sending to AWS Kinesis Streams

Log Forwarding Agents

Log forwarding agents that support AWS Kinesis Streams:

Code/Applications

Code can send data to an AWS Kinesis Stream via:

AWS SNS

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a flexible, fully managed pub/sub messaging notification service for coordinating the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints and clients.

StreamAlert can utilize SNS as an input for processing.

Use-cases:

  • Receiving messages from other AWS services