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Last updated: Apr 10th, 2023

Pulse Connect Secure

Collect logs from Pulse Connect Secure with Elastic Agent.

What is an Elastic integration?

This integration is powered by Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, forward data from remote services or hardware, and more. Refer to our documentation for a detailed comparison between Beats and Elastic Agent.

Prefer to use Beats for this use case? See Filebeat modules for logs or Metricbeat modules for metrics.

This integration is for Pulse Connect Secure.

Log

An example event for log looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2021-10-19T09:10:35.000+02:00",
    "agent": {
        "ephemeral_id": "48b94170-8de9-42a4-8608-50484a347a6a",
        "id": "584f3aea-648c-4e58-aba4-32b8f88d4396",
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "type": "filebeat",
        "version": "8.0.0-beta1"
    },
    "client": {
        "address": "89.160.20.156",
        "as": {
            "number": 29518,
            "organization": {
                "name": "Bredband2 AB"
            }
        },
        "geo": {
            "city_name": "Linköping",
            "continent_name": "Europe",
            "country_iso_code": "SE",
            "country_name": "Sweden",
            "location": {
                "lat": 58.4167,
                "lon": 15.6167
            },
            "region_iso_code": "SE-E",
            "region_name": "Östergötland County"
        },
        "ip": "89.160.20.156"
    },
    "data_stream": {
        "dataset": "pulse_connect_secure.log",
        "namespace": "ep",
        "type": "logs"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.7.0"
    },
    "elastic_agent": {
        "id": "584f3aea-648c-4e58-aba4-32b8f88d4396",
        "snapshot": false,
        "version": "8.0.0-beta1"
    },
    "event": {
        "agent_id_status": "verified",
        "category": "network",
        "created": "2021-10-19T09:10:35.000+02:00",
        "dataset": "pulse_connect_secure.log",
        "ingested": "2022-02-03T09:39:02Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "original": "Oct 19 09:10:35 pcs-node1 1 2021-10-19T09:10:35+02:00 10.5.2.3 PulseSecure: - - - 2021-10-19 09:10:35 - pcs-node1 - [89.160.20.156] user.name(REALM)[REALM_ROLES] - Agent login succeeded for user.name/REALM (session:sid74fa8e00ca601280318287f67dfaee7cc6da40db0be6ac75) from 89.160.20.156 with Pulse-Secure/9.1.13.11723 (Windows 10) Pulse/9.1.13.11723.\n",
        "outcome": "success",
        "timezone": "+02:00"
    },
    "host": {
        "hostname": "pcs-node1"
    },
    "input": {
        "type": "udp"
    },
    "log": {
        "source": {
            "address": "172.19.0.7:51695"
        }
    },
    "message": "Agent login succeeded for user.name/REALM (session:sid74fa8e00ca601280318287f67dfaee7cc6da40db0be6ac75) from 89.160.20.156 with Pulse-Secure/9.1.13.11723 (Windows 10) Pulse/9.1.13.11723.",
    "observer": {
        "ip": "10.5.2.3",
        "name": "pcs-node1",
        "product": "Pulse Secure Connect",
        "type": "vpn",
        "vendor": "Pulse Secure"
    },
    "pulse_secure": {
        "realm": "REALM",
        "role": "REALM_ROLES",
        "session": {
            "id": "sid74fa8e00ca601280318287f67dfaee7cc6da40db0be6ac75"
        }
    },
    "source": {
        "address": "89.160.20.156",
        "as": {
            "number": 29518,
            "organization": {
                "name": "Bredband2 AB"
            }
        },
        "geo": {
            "city_name": "Linköping",
            "continent_name": "Europe",
            "country_iso_code": "SE",
            "country_name": "Sweden",
            "location": {
                "lat": 58.4167,
                "lon": 15.6167
            },
            "region_iso_code": "SE-E",
            "region_name": "Östergötland County"
        },
        "ip": "89.160.20.156"
    },
    "tags": [
        "preserve_original_event",
        "forwarded",
        "pulse_connect_secure-log"
    ],
    "user": {
        "name": "user.name"
    },
    "user_agent": {
        "device": {
            "name": "Other"
        },
        "name": "Other",
        "original": "Pulse-Secure/9.1.13.11723 (Windows 10) Pulse/9.1.13.11723",
        "os": {
            "full": "Windows 10",
            "name": "Windows",
            "version": "10"
        }
    }
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionType
@timestamp
Date/time when the event originated. This is the date/time extracted from the event, typically representing when the event was generated by the source. If the event source has no original timestamp, this value is typically populated by the first time the event was received by the pipeline. Required field for all events.
date
client.address
Some event client addresses are defined ambiguously. The event will sometimes list an IP, a domain or a unix socket. You should always store the raw address in the .address field. Then it should be duplicated to .ip or .domain, depending on which one it is.
keyword
client.as.number
Unique number allocated to the autonomous system. The autonomous system number (ASN) uniquely identifies each network on the Internet.
long
client.as.organization.name
Organization name.
keyword
client.as.organization.name.text
Multi-field of client.as.organization.name.
match_only_text
client.geo.city_name
City name.
keyword
client.geo.continent_name
Name of the continent.
keyword
client.geo.country_iso_code
Country ISO code.
keyword
client.geo.country_name
Country name.
keyword
client.geo.location
Longitude and latitude.
geo_point
client.geo.region_iso_code
Region ISO code.
keyword
client.geo.region_name
Region name.
keyword
client.ip
IP address of the client (IPv4 or IPv6).
ip
client.nat.ip
Translated IP of source based NAT sessions (e.g. internal client to internet). Typically connections traversing load balancers, firewalls, or routers.
ip
cloud.account.id
The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier.
keyword
cloud.availability_zone
Availability zone in which this host is running.
keyword
cloud.image.id
Image ID for the cloud instance.
keyword
cloud.instance.id
Instance ID of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.instance.name
Instance name of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.machine.type
Machine type of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.project.id
Name of the project in Google Cloud.
keyword
cloud.provider
Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean.
keyword
cloud.region
Region in which this host is running.
keyword
container.id
Unique container id.
keyword
container.image.name
Name of the image the container was built on.
keyword
container.labels
Image labels.
object
container.name
Container name.
keyword
data_stream.dataset
Data stream dataset.
constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace
Data stream namespace.
constant_keyword
data_stream.type
Data stream type.
constant_keyword
ecs.version
ECS version this event conforms to. ecs.version is a required field and must exist in all events. When querying across multiple indices -- which may conform to slightly different ECS versions -- this field lets integrations adjust to the schema version of the events.
keyword
event.created
event.created contains the date/time when the event was first read by an agent, or by your pipeline. This field is distinct from @timestamp in that @timestamp typically contain the time extracted from the original event. In most situations, these two timestamps will be slightly different. The difference can be used to calculate the delay between your source generating an event, and the time when your agent first processed it. This can be used to monitor your agent's or pipeline's ability to keep up with your event source. In case the two timestamps are identical, @timestamp should be used.
date
event.dataset
Event dataset
constant_keyword
event.module
Event module
constant_keyword
event.outcome
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the lowest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.outcome simply denotes whether the event represents a success or a failure from the perspective of the entity that produced the event. Note that when a single transaction is described in multiple events, each event may populate different values of event.outcome, according to their perspective. Also note that in the case of a compound event (a single event that contains multiple logical events), this field should be populated with the value that best captures the overall success or failure from the perspective of the event producer. Further note that not all events will have an associated outcome. For example, this field is generally not populated for metric events, events with event.type:info, or any events for which an outcome does not make logical sense.
keyword
host.architecture
Operating system architecture.
keyword
host.containerized
If the host is a container.
boolean
host.domain
Name of the domain of which the host is a member. For example, on Windows this could be the host's Active Directory domain or NetBIOS domain name. For Linux this could be the domain of the host's LDAP provider.
keyword
host.hostname
Hostname of the host. It normally contains what the hostname command returns on the host machine.
keyword
host.id
Unique host id. As hostname is not always unique, use values that are meaningful in your environment. Example: The current usage of beat.name.
keyword
host.ip
Host ip addresses.
ip
host.mac
Host mac addresses.
keyword
host.name
Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use.
keyword
host.os.build
OS build information.
keyword
host.os.codename
OS codename, if any.
keyword
host.os.family
OS family (such as redhat, debian, freebsd, windows).
keyword
host.os.kernel
Operating system kernel version as a raw string.
keyword
host.os.name
Operating system name, without the version.
keyword
host.os.name.text
Multi-field of host.os.name.
text
host.os.platform
Operating system platform (such centos, ubuntu, windows).
keyword
host.os.version
Operating system version as a raw string.
keyword
host.type
Type of host. For Cloud providers this can be the machine type like t2.medium. If vm, this could be the container, for example, or other information meaningful in your environment.
keyword
input.type
Input type
keyword
log.flags
Flags for the log file.
keyword
log.offset
Log offset
long
log.source.address
Source address from which the log event was read / sent from.
keyword
log.syslog.priority
Syslog numeric priority of the event, if available. According to RFCs 5424 and 3164, the priority is 8 * facility + severity. This number is therefore expected to contain a value between 0 and 191.
long
message
For log events the message field contains the log message, optimized for viewing in a log viewer. For structured logs without an original message field, other fields can be concatenated to form a human-readable summary of the event. If multiple messages exist, they can be combined into one message.
match_only_text
network.type
In the OSI Model this would be the Network Layer. ipv4, ipv6, ipsec, pim, etc The field value must be normalized to lowercase for querying.
keyword
observer.hostname
Hostname of the observer.
keyword
observer.ip
IP addresses of the observer.
ip
observer.name
Custom name of the observer. This is a name that can be given to an observer. This can be helpful for example if multiple firewalls of the same model are used in an organization. If no custom name is needed, the field can be left empty.
keyword
observer.product
The product name of the observer.
keyword
observer.type
The type of the observer the data is coming from. There is no predefined list of observer types. Some examples are forwarder, firewall, ids, ips, proxy, poller, sensor, APM server.
keyword
observer.vendor
Vendor name of the observer.
keyword
pulse_secure.realm
test
keyword
pulse_secure.role
test
keyword
pulse_secure.session.id
test
keyword
source.address
Some event source addresses are defined ambiguously. The event will sometimes list an IP, a domain or a unix socket. You should always store the raw address in the .address field. Then it should be duplicated to .ip or .domain, depending on which one it is.
keyword
source.as.number
Unique number allocated to the autonomous system. The autonomous system number (ASN) uniquely identifies each network on the Internet.
long
source.as.organization.name
Organization name.
keyword
source.as.organization.name.text
Multi-field of source.as.organization.name.
match_only_text
source.geo.city_name
City name.
keyword
source.geo.continent_name
Name of the continent.
keyword
source.geo.country_iso_code
Country ISO code.
keyword
source.geo.country_name
Country name.
keyword
source.geo.location
Longitude and latitude.
geo_point
source.geo.region_iso_code
Region ISO code.
keyword
source.geo.region_name
Region name.
keyword
source.ip
IP address of the source (IPv4 or IPv6).
ip
source.nat.ip
Translated ip of source based NAT sessions (e.g. internal client to internet) Typically connections traversing load balancers, firewalls, or routers.
ip
tags
List of keywords used to tag each event.
keyword
user.domain
Name of the directory the user is a member of. For example, an LDAP or Active Directory domain name.
keyword
user.name
Short name or login of the user.
keyword
user.name.text
Multi-field of user.name.
match_only_text
user_agent.device.name
Name of the device.
keyword
user_agent.name
Name of the user agent.
keyword
user_agent.original
Unparsed user_agent string.
keyword
user_agent.original.text
Multi-field of user_agent.original.
match_only_text
user_agent.os.full
Operating system name, including the version or code name.
keyword
user_agent.os.full.text
Multi-field of user_agent.os.full.
match_only_text
user_agent.os.name
Operating system name, without the version.
keyword
user_agent.os.name.text
Multi-field of user_agent.os.name.
match_only_text
user_agent.os.version
Operating system version as a raw string.
keyword

Changelog

VersionDetails
1.7.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update package to ECS 8.7.0.
1.6.0
Enhancement View pull request
Handle user domain for SAML events.
1.5.1
Enhancement View pull request
Added categories and/or subcategories.
1.5.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update package to ECS 8.6.0.
1.4.0
Enhancement View pull request
Add udp_options to the UDP input.
1.3.1
Bug fix View pull request
Remove duplicate fields.
1.3.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update package to ECS 8.5.0.
1.2.2
Enhancement View pull request
Use ECS geo.location definition.
1.2.1
Bug fix View pull request
Fix minor issues with grok patterns
1.2.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update package to ECS 8.4.0
1.1.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update package to ECS 8.3.0.
1.0.1
Bug fix View pull request
Add mapping for event.create
1.0.0
Enhancement View pull request
Make GA
0.3.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update to ECS 8.2
0.2.1
Enhancement View pull request
Add documentation for multi-fields
0.2.0
Enhancement View pull request
Add support for parsing syslog priority values
0.1.0
Enhancement View pull request
Update to ECS 8.0
0.0.2
Bug fix View pull request
Regenerate test files using the new GeoIP database
0.0.1
Enhancement View pull request
initial release