Configure network map data
editConfigure network map data
editDepending on your setup, to display and interact with data on the Network page’s map you might need to:
To see source and destination connections lines on the map, you must
configure source.geo
and destination.geo
ECS fields for your indices.
Permissions required
editTo view the map, you need the appropriate predefined user role or a custom role with at least Read
privileges for the Maps
feature.
Create data views
editTo display map data, you must define a
data view (Project settings → Management → Data views) that includes one or more of the indices specified in the securitysolution:defaultIndex
field in advanced settings.
For example, to display data that is stored in indices matching the index pattern servers-europe-*
on the map, you must use a data view whose index pattern matches servers-europe-*
, such as servers-*
.
Add geoIP data
editWhen the ECS source.geo.location and destination.geo.location fields are mapped, network data is displayed on the map.
If you use Beats, configure a geoIP processor to add data to the relevant fields:
-
Define an ingest node pipeline that uses one or more
geoIP
processors to add location information to events. For example, use the Console in Dev tools to create the following pipeline:PUT _ingest/pipeline/geoip-info { "description": "Add geoip info", "processors": [ { "geoip": { "field": "client.ip", "target_field": "client.geo", "ignore_missing": true } }, { "geoip": { "field": "source.ip", "target_field": "source.geo", "ignore_missing": true } }, { "geoip": { "field": "destination.ip", "target_field": "destination.geo", "ignore_missing": true } }, { "geoip": { "field": "server.ip", "target_field": "server.geo", "ignore_missing": true } }, { "geoip": { "field": "host.ip", "target_field": "host.geo", "ignore_missing": true } } ] }
In this example, the pipeline ID is
geoip-info
.field
specifies the field that contains the IP address to use for the geographical lookup, andtarget_field
is the field that will hold the geographical information."ignore_missing": true
configures the pipeline to continue processing when it encounters an event that doesn’t have the specified field.An example ingest pipeline that uses the GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb database to add autonomous system number (ASN) fields can be found here.
-
In your Beats configuration files, add the pipeline to the
output.elasticsearch
tag:The value of this field must be the same as the ingest pipeline name in step 1 (
geoip-info
in this example).
Map your internal network
editIf you want to add your network’s internal IP addresses to the map, define geo
location fields under the processors
tag in the Beats configuration files
on your hosts:
processors: - add_host_metadata: - add_cloud_metadata: ~ - add_fields: when.network.source.ip: <private/IP address> fields: source.geo.location: lat: <latitude coordinate> lon: <longitude coordinate> target: '' - add_fields: when.network.destination.ip: <private/IP address> fields: destination.geo.location: lat: <latitude coordinate> lon: <longitude coordinate> target: ''
You can also enrich your data with other host fields.