Sending system logs from EC2 to AWS Security Lake with Cribl Edge
- AWS has recently introduced AWS Security Lake for collecting and analyzing data from AWS services.
- Cribl Edge is a partner solution that provides connectors to send data to Security Lake and other destinations like S3.
- Cribl Edge offers a GUI environment for building data pipelines and complete monitoring of data flow.
- It allows debugging and validating transformed data before delivering it to the destination.
- The process of using Cribl Edge to send data to Security Lake involves installing it on the server, configuring source connectors for log files, configuring destination connectors for Security Lake, and building data pipelines.
- Source connectors are used to choose data from log files, and the Live Data menu can be used to observe real-time data generation.
- Destination connectors for Security Lake allow for data transmission and conversion to Parquet format.
- Quick Connect feature in Cribl Edge can be used to easily build data pipelines for transmitting data from the server to Security Lake.