{"id":280,"date":"2015-11-04T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:55:38","slug":"snort-logs-not-appearing-in-splunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/snort-logs-not-appearing-in-splunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Snort logs not appearing in Splunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we had an issue where our snort logs stopped appearing in Splunk despite working fine for many\u00a0months. After some digging I found that if you are outputting the log in alert_fast format, Splunk may not index the data due to the timestamp format not having the year, for example\u00a011\/04-11:44:29.049638.<\/p>\n<p>The fix for this is to run snort with the -y argument which includes the year in the timestamp,\u00a011\/04\/15-11:44:29.049638.<\/p>\n<p>For us this seemed to happen after ntpd was updated on the snort server, but that may have just been coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we had an issue where our snort logs stopped appearing in Splunk despite working fine for many\u00a0months. After some digging I found that if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/snort-logs-not-appearing-in-splunk\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28951],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}