Log Forwarding Configuration

Log Forwarding

To forward your Akeyless audit logs directly from your Gateway, you can set the relevant settings of your target logs server directly inside the values.yaml file of your Gateway deployment.

On the values.yaml file, enable the logandConf section and provide the relevant settings as described below:

logandConf: |
 enable="true"

Or using an explicit environment variable:

env:
  - name: LOG_FORWARDING
    value: "enable=\"true\"\ntarget_syslog_tag=\"ssh-audit-export\"\ntarget_log_type=\"syslog\"\ntarget_syslog_network=\"udp\"\ntarget_syslog_host=\"my-syslog:514\"\ntarget_syslog_formatter=\"text\""

Alternatively, you can specify the entire settings within a K8s secret base64 encoded:

# Specifies an existing secret for logand should be in yaml syntax, and include:
# - logand-conf field (base64). The content the same as above.
logandExistingSecretName:

Syslog

Edit the values.yaml file under the logForwarding section:

target_syslog_tag="ssh-audit-export"
target_log_type="syslog"
target_syslog_network="udp"
target_syslog_host="<host>:<port>"
target_syslog_formatter="[default=text]|cef"
#TLS Optional
target_syslog_enable_tls="true"
target_syslog_tls_certificate="<Based64 PEM encoded Cert>"

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Note

The outputted message format conforms to Syslog format and assumes the Syslog server doesn’t add its own formatting to the message.

Default format: <date > <time> <host name> <log level> <message>.

The variable target_syslog_formatter controls the format of the outputted message either text or cef - for CEF format.

Splunk

Prerequisites: Splunk HTTP Event Collector

target_log_type="splunk"
target_splunk_sourcetype="<your_sourcetype>"
target_splunk_source="<your_source>"
target_splunk_index="<your_index>"
target_splunk_token="<your_token>"
target_splunk_url="<your_splunk_host_address>"
#TLS Optional
target_splunk_enable_tls="true"
target_splunk_tls_certificate="<Based64 PEM encoded Cert>"

ELK - Logstash

target_log_type="logstash"
target_logstash_dns="localhost:8911"
target_logstash_protocol="tcp"
#TLS Optional
target_logstash_enable_tls="true"
target_logstash_tls_certificate="<Based64 PEM encoded Cert>"

Configure your Logstash to use the same port and protocol:
Add the following to the logstash.conf file:
input { tcp { port => 8911 codec => json } }

ELK - Elasticsearch

logandConf: |
  enable="true"
  target_log_type="elasticSearch"
# "Elasticsearch server - requires one of the following:"
  target_elasticsearch_server_type="elastic-server-nodes"
  target_elasticsearch_nodes="https://host1:9200,https://host2:9200"  
# OR 
# target_elasticsearch_server_type="elastic-server-cloudId"
# target_elasticsearch_cloud_id="<your_cloudId>"

# "Elasticsearch authentication - requires one of the following:"
  target_elasticsearch_auth_type="elastic-auth-apiKey"
  target_elasticsearch_api_key="<your_apiKey>"
# OR
# target_elasticsearch_auth_type="elastic-auth-usrPwd"
# target_elasticsearch_user_name="<your_user>"
# target_elasticsearch_password="<your_pwd>"

  target_elasticsearch_index="<your_index>"  # (required !)

#TLS Optional
  target_elasticsearch_enable_tls="true"
  target_elasticsearch_tls_certificate="<Based64 PEM encoded Cert>"

Logz.io

target_log_type="logz_io"
target_logz_io_token="<TOKEN>"
target_logz_io_protocol="tcp"
# OR 
target_logz_io_protocol="https"

For details about log tokens, see here.

AWS S3

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Warning

Logs will be uploaded to your S3 bucket based on 10 minutes intervals. Keep in mind that in case your pod will scale down or restart, logs that were not uploaded to your bucket will be lost.

target_log_type="aws_s3"
target_s3_folder_prefix=""  # default value "akeyless-log"
target_s3_bucket_name=""
target_s3_aws_auth_type="" # aws_auth_type_access_key|aws_auth_type_cloud_id|aws_auth_type_assume_role
target_s3_aws_access_id="" # aws_auth_type_access_key
target_s3_aws_access_key="" # aws_auth_type_access_key
aws_auth_type_assume_role="" # Relevant for aws_auth_type_assume_role
target_s3_aws_region=""

Azure Log Analytics

Logs will be sent to a given workspace according to provided ID.

target_log_type="azure_log_analytics"
target_azure_workspace_id=""
target_azure_workspace_key="" # can be "Primary key" or "Secondary key"

STDOUT

Setting log forwarding to stdout:

target_log_type="std_out"

DataDog

Setting log forwarding to DataDog system:

target_log_type="datadog"
target_datadog_host="<datadog host e.g. datadoghq.com>" (required)
target_datadog_api_key="<datadog api key>"(required)
target_datadog_log_source="<The integration name associated with your log>" (optional. Default value: akeyless)
target_datadog_log_tags="<Tags associated with your logs in the form of key:val,key:val... e.g. env:test,version:1>"(optional)
target_datadog_log_service="<The name of the application or service generating the log events>"(optional. Default value: akeyless-gateway)

Sumo Logic

Setting log forwarding to Sumo Logic:

target_log_type="sumo_logic"
target_sumologic_endpoint_url="<sumo logic endpoint>"(required)
target_sumologic_tags="<Tags associated with your logs in the form of tag1,tag2...>"(optional)
target_sumologic_host="<Host associated with your logs>"(optional)

Google Chronicle

Setting log forwarding to Google Chronicle:

target_log_type="google_chronicle"
target_google_chronicle_service_account_key="<Base64 json service account key file content>" (required if "target_google_chronicle_service_account_key_file" is empty)
target_google_chronicle_service_account_key_file="<Path to the json service account key file>" (required if "target_google_chronicle_service_account_key" is empty)
target_google_chronicle_customer_id="<Unique identifier for the Chronicle instance>"(required)
target_google_chronicle_region="<Region where the customer account is provisioned, possible value: "eu_multi_region", "london", "us_multi_region", "singapore", "tel_aviv">" (required)
target_google_chronicle_log_type="<Log type>"(required)