Note: This description of a security analyst’s daily routine is fictitious. However, the osquery examples have been tested and can therefore be used as a template for your own research. 1. Alarm Detection Today started with a high-severity alarm from our Elastic Security system. The alert indicated suspicious activity on host HOST-1234, suggesting potential malware execution. The…
Read MoreIn today’s episode of “Fantastic Checks and Where to Find Them”, I’ll share how I managed to correlate two or more services on a single host, or even across different hosts. This story begins with a recent customer request. Initially, I considered using the Business Process module that’s already integrated in NetEye. However, after analyzing…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 provides a graphical engine to represent time series monitoring data stored in an Influx database: the Grafana engine accessible through the ITOA menu on the left hand side. Grafana is very powerful: it consists of a dashboard built up of multiple individual panels. A lot of them are native to Grafana, but…
Read MoreAlerts are critical signals that demand immediate attention to minimize disruptions and maintain smooth operations. Proactively managing alerts throughout their lifecycle is key to effective event-driven workflows, incident response, and business continuity. By leveraging alerting tools within Jira Service Management (JSM), teams can detect and resolve incidents faster, improve collaboration, and enhance service reliability. In…
Read MoreHello everyone! As you may remember, a topic I like to discuss a lot on this blog is the Proof of Concept (POC) about how we could enhance search within our online NetEye User Guide. Well, we’re happy to share with you how we’ve further developed the POC, specifically the process outlined in the first…
Read MoreIn the ever-evolving landscape of IT monitoring and management, the ability to efficiently handle multi-dimensional namespaces is crucial. Within NetEye, Log-SIEM (Elastic), provides a comprehensive solution for managing the single namespace dimension with the namespace of a data_stream. This blog post deals with multi-dimensional namespaces and how NetEye’s Log-SIEM solution simplifies their management. Understanding Multidimensional…
Read MoreHey everyone! We played around a bit last time with our radar data to build a model that we could train outside Elasticsearch, loading it through Eland and then applying it using an ingest pipeline. But since our data is in the form of vectors, could we actually exploit Elasticsearch vector database functionality and perform…
Read MoreRight now, at Würth Phoenix, we are investing in automating most of our operations using Ansible. You’re probably already familiar with what Ansible does, but to summarize, Ansible is an open-source, command-line IT automation application written in Python. I’ve talked about it here: One challenge we faced while developing our automation scripts was that we…
Read MoreOpenShift already has a built-in monitoring suite with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. This is all well and good, but what if organizations want to monitor their entire infrastructure, integrating all monitoring results under one umbrella? In this case, it’s necessary to send the metrics somehow from OpenShift to NetEye. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
Read MoreHey everyone! As you may remember, we took a look in the past at how it’s possible to use a model (trained directly in Elasticsearch) to perform some real time classification by using an ingest pipeline. But… what if we wanted to use our own externally trained model? Well the good news is that, under…
Read MoreScenario GLPI is integrated into NetEye and provides powerful asset management solutions. Usually GLPI agents are deployed on servers and clients: this way an up-to-date asset inventory is kept within NetEye. The GLPI package also provides a tool able to perform network SNMP scans, detecting for example network printers, switches, and routers, as well as…
Read MoreIcinga Director is a powerful configuration tool included in NetEye that streamlines the process of defining and managing monitoring configurations. However, you may encounter issues with duplicate addresses and spaces in hostnames, which can lead to confusion and monitoring inaccuracies. In this post, I’ll discuss these common problems and introduce a Grafana dashboard solution to…
Read MoreIn today’s digital landscape, ensuring optimal performance and availability of applications is critical. Monitoring tools like Elastic Synthetics Journey Monitor and Alyvix offer unique capabilities tailored to diverse needs. Understanding where each tool excels can help you choose the best solution for your requirements. Elastic Synthetic Browser Monitor: Strengths and Use Cases Elastic Synthetic Browser…
Read MoreIn this blog post, we’ll explore the power of custom branding in NetEye reports. The reporting module offers the ability to filter specific hosts and services while also enabling the configuration of custom thresholds to visually emphasize unmet SLAs. Users have the flexibility to generate reports manually or automatically, such as on a weekly or…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga 2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logic in order to monitor whether a Business Application is really…
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