Ship Active Directory logs from Windows Server

Active Directory is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. This integration allows you to send Active Directory logs to your Logz.io SIEM account.

Configuration

Before you begin, you’ll need: Winlogbeat 8, Winlogbeat 7.0.0 or Winlogbeat 6.

Download the Logz.io public certificate

Download the Logz.io public certificate to C:\ProgramData\Winlogbeat\COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt on your machine.

Configure Windows applications as an input

If you’re working with the default configuration file, (C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat\winlogbeat.yml) clear the content and start with a fresh file.

Paste this code block.

Replace <<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>> with the token of the account you want to ship to.

# ...
winlogbeat.event_logs:
  - name: Application
    ignore_older: 72h
  - name: Security
  - name: System

fields:
  logzio_codec: json

  # Your Logz.io account token. You can find your token at
  #  https://app.logz.io/#/dashboard/settings/manage-accounts
  token: <<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>>
  type: wineventlog
fields_under_root: true

If you’re running Winlogbeat 7 or 8, paste this code block. Otherwise, you can leave it out.

# ... For Winlogbeat 7 or 8 only ...
processors:
  - rename:
      fields:
      - from: "agent"
        to: "beat_agent"
      ignore_missing: true
  - rename:
      fields:
      - from: "log.file.path"
        to: "source"
      ignore_missing: true
  - rename:
      fields:
      - from: "log"
        to: "log_information"
      ignore_missing: true

Set Logz.io as the output

If Logz.io isn’t the output, set it now.

Winlogbeat can have one output only, so remove any other output entries.

Replace <<LISTENER-HOST>> with the host for your region. For example, listener.logz.io if your account is hosted on AWS US East, or listener-nl.logz.io if hosted on Azure West Europe. The required port depends whether HTTP or HTTPS is used: HTTP = 8070, HTTPS = 8071.

# ...
output.logstash:
  hosts: ["<<LISTENER-HOST>>:5015"]
  ssl:
    certificate_authorities: ['C:\ProgramData\Winlogbeat\COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt']

Restart Winlogbeat

Restart-Service winlogbeat

Check Logz.io for your logs

Give your logs some time to get from your system to ours, and then open Open Search Dashboards.

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