Awesome Suricata

Curated list of awesome things related to Suricata.

Suricata is a free intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS) and network security monitoring engine.

Contents

• Input Tools
• Output Tools
• Operations, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Programming Libraries and Toolkits
• Dashboards and Templates
• Development Tools
• Documentation and Guides
• Analysis Tools
• Rule Sets
• Rule/Security Content Management and Handling
• Plugins and Extensions
• Systems Using Suricata
• Training
• Simulation and Testing
• Data Sets
• Misc

Input Tools

• PacketStreamer - Distributed tcpdump for cloud native environments.

Output Tools

• suricata-kafka-output - Suricata Eve Kafka Output Plugin for Suricata 6.
• suricata-redis-output - Suricata Eve Redis Output Plugin for Suricata 7.
• Meer - A "spooler" for Suricata / Sagan.
• FEVER - Fast, extensible, versatile event router for Suricata's EVE-JSON format.
• Suricata-Logstash-Templates - Templates for Kibana/Logstash to use with Suricata IDPS.
• Lilith - Reads EVE files into SQL as well as search stored data.

Operations, Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• slinkwatch - Automatic enumeration and maintenance of Suricata monitoring interfaces.
• suri-stats - A tool to work on suricata stats.log file.
• Mauerspecht - Simple Probing Tool for Corporate Walled Garden Networks.
• ansible-suricata - Suricata Ansible role (slightly outdated).
• MassDeploySuricata - Mass deploy and update Suricata IDPS using Ansible IT automation platform.
• docker-suricata - Suricata Docker image.
• Suricata-Monitoring - LibreNMS JSON / Nagios monitor for Suricata stats.
• Terraform Module for Suricata - Terraform module to setup Google Cloud packet mirroring and send packets to Suricata.
• InfluxDB Suricata Input Plugin - Input Plugin for Telegraf to collect and forward Suricata stats logs (included out of the box in recent Telegraf releases).
• suricata_exporter - Simple Prometheus exporter written in Go exporting stats metrics scraped from Suricata socket.

Programming Libraries and Toolkits

• rust-suricatax-rule-parser - Experimental Suricata Rule Parser in Rust.
• go-suricata - Go Client for Suricata (Interacting via Socket).
• gonids - Go library to parse intrusion detection rules for engines like Snort and Suricata.
• surevego - Suricata EVE-JSON parser in Go.
• suricataparser - Pure python parser for Snort/Suricata rules.
• py-idstools - Snort and Suricata Rule and Event Utilities in Python (Including a Rule Update Tool).

Dashboards and Templates

• KTS - Kibana 4 Templates for Suricata IDPS Threat Hunting.
• KTS5 - Kibana 5 Templates for Suricata IDPS Threat Hunting.
• KTS6 - Kibana 6 Templates for Suricata IDPS Threat Hunting.
• KTS7 - Kibana 7 Templates for Suricata IDPS Threat Hunting.

Development Tools

• Suricata Language Server - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for Suricata signatures. It adds syntax check, hints and auto-completion to your preferred editor once it is configured.
• suricata-ls-vscode - Suricata IntelliSense Extension using the Suricata Language Server.