opensearch-project / opensearch-project/data-prepper
Firewall Log Ingest
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- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be nice to be able to ingest firewall logs into OpenSearch for Obervability / SIEM related activities.
Describe the solution you'd like
A firewall log source plugin that accepts firewall logs and normalizes them.
Describe alternatives you've considered (Optional)
N/A
Additional context
See this discussion for more detail.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Cisco ASA firewall-message discussion and inspect the repository’s existing source-plugin entry points. Define which firewall log formats are supported, how their fields are normalized, and what successful ingestion into OpenSearch means before implementation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- observability, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100