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Send Local Logs to Splunk

Scenario: you want to save gateway/relay logs to a Splunk Indexer. This guide presents a simple method to send all gateway/relay logs to a Splunk Indexer.

As with all gateway/relay logs, the logs stored on the gateway/relay will not include Admin UI activities, which can be accessed via the sdm audit activities command.

Setting up the export

  1. Enable relay logging in the Admin UI under Settings / Log Encryption & Storage. Ensure logging is set to FILE.

  2. Configure your indexer to receive the date from the forwarder:

  3. Create an index for StrongDM, called "sdm_index" in this example:

  4. Install the forwarder, then configure the monitor.

    wget -O splunkforwarder-8.1.3-63079c59e632-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm 'https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=8.1.3&product=universalforwarder&filename=splunkforwarder-8.1.3-63079c59e632-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&wget=true'
sudo rpm -ihv splunkforwarder-8.1.3-63079c59e632-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/splunkforwarder/bin
splunk start

You'll be asked to set the admin password on the first run of splunk start.

splunk list forward-server
Active forwards:
    ec2-34-210-43-66.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:9997
Configured but inactive forwards:
    None

splunk add monitor /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/ -index sdm_index -sourcetype sdm

splunk list monitor
[...]
/home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs
        /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/relay.1616439304.0.log
        /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/relay.1616439311.0.log
        /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/relay.1616595755.0.log
        /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/relay.1616604787.0.log
        /home/ec2-user/.sdm/logs/relay.1616652500.0.log
[...]

5. You can search for "sdm_index" on the indexer's search.

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