On-boarding Ranger Audit logs to SIEM

[#1]

Hello,

We are in the process of setting up our Cloudera and would like to request you to provide the steps to Integrate Audit logs from Ranger to SIEM (splunk) systems. Request you to let us know if there are any other services needed on the cluster to get this Integration(other than Ranger). 

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Madhuri

[#2]

Hi Madhuri,

Streaming Ranger audits to third-party services (other than HDFS, Solr) is still not officially supported. I found this article though, can you check if that helps:
https://my.cloudera.com/knowledge/How-to-send-Ranger-audit-logs-to-log4j-appenders?id=276802

Also, there's a Github page to enable streaming Ranger audits to Kafka topics:

https://github.com/Raghav-Guru/kafka-ranger-audit

Here's an Apache document on steps to enable Audits to a component that has log4j appender:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Ranger+0.5+Audit+Configuration#Ranger0.5AuditConf...

[#3]

Madhuri, did you get any solution for this .. I am looking for the same audit logs into Splunk.

[#4]

Hi All,

You can check the below article for more details on Configuring Apache ranger to send syslog to a SIEM system:

https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Configuring-Apache-Ranger-to-send-Syslog-to-a-SI...

We officially support two destination location for ranger audits i.e. HDFS & SOLR
Audits to log4j is a community feature and not certified by Cloudera Engineering

Other KB reference:
https://my.cloudera.com/knowledge/How-to-send-Ranger-audit-logs-to-log4j-appenders?id=276802

[#5]

@ammukana, did any of the replies helped resolve your issue? If so, please mark the appropriate reply as the solution, as it will make it easier for others to find the answer in the future.