Ship Cisco SecureX data to Logz.io

Cisco SecureX connects the breadth of Cisco’s integrated security portfolio and your infrastructure. This integration allows you to collect data from Cisco SecureX API and send it to your Logz.io account.

Pull the Docker image of the Logz.io API fetcher

docker pull logzio/logzio-api-fetcher

Create a local directory for this integration

You will need a dedicated directory to use it as mounted directory for the Docker container of the Logz.io API fetcher.

mkdir logzio-api-fetcher
cd logzio-api-fetcher

Create a configuration file

In the directory created in the previous step, create a file config.yaml using the example configuration below:

logzio:
  url: https://<<LISTENER-HOST>>:8071
  token: <<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>>

auth_apis:
  - type: api_fetcher
    name: cisco
    credentials:
      id: <<API_CREDENTIALS_ID>>
      key: <<API_CREDENTIALS_KEY>>
    settings:
      time_interval: 5
      days_back_fetch: 7
    filters:
      event_type%5B%5D: '1090519054'
      start_date: 2021-10-05T10%3A10%3A10%2B00%3A00
    custom_fields:
      type: cisco
      level: high

Parameter	Description	Required/Default
URL	Use the listener URL specific to the region where your Logz.io account is hosted. Click to look up your listener URL. The required port depends whether HTTP or HTTPS is used: HTTP = 8070, HTTPS = 8071.	Required
TOKEN	Your Logz.io account token. Replace `<<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>>` with the token of the account you want to ship to.	Required
type	The type of the Auth API. Currently we support the following types: cisco_secure_x, general.	Required
name	The name of the Auth API. Please make names unique.	Required
credentials.id	The Auth API credentials id.	Required
credentials.key	The Auth API credentials key.	Required
settings.time_interval	The Auth API time interval between runs.	Required
settings.days_back_fetch	The max days back to fetch from the Auth API.	Optional. Default value is 14 days.
filters	Pairs of key and value of parameters that can be added to the Auth API url. Make sure the keys and values are valid for the Auth API.	Optional
custom_fields	Pairs of key and value that will be added to each data and be sent to Logz.io.	Optional

Create a Last Start Dates text file

Create an empty text file named last_start_dates.txt in the same directory as the config file:

$ touch last_start_dates.txt

After every successful iteration of an API, the last start date of the next iteration will be written to last_start_dates.txt. Each line starts with the API name and ends with the last start date.

If you stopped the container, you can continue from the exact place you stopped, by adding the date to the API filters in the configuration.

Run the Docker container

docker run --name logzio-api-fetcher \
-v "$(pwd)":/app/src/shared \
logzio/logzio-api-fetcher

Stop the Docker container

When you stop the container, the code will run until the iteration is completed. To make sure it will finish the iteration on time, please give it a grace period of 30 seconds when you run the docker stop command.

docker stop -t 30 logzio-api-fetcher

Check Logz.io for your logs

Give your logs some time to get from your system to ours, and then open Open Search Dashboards. You can filter for data of your custom field type value or type api_fetcher to see the incoming Cisco SecureX logs.

If you still don’t see your logs, see log shipping troubleshooting.