Google Cloud VPC Flow Logs

Overview

Google Cloud Logging centralizes logs from Google Cloud products.

In this documentation, you will learn how to collect and send Google Cloud logs to SEKOIA.IO.

Configure

Before you begin working with PubSub, verify that you have the right permission.

Follow Google's documentation to configure a dedicated PubSub receiver. At the end of the documentation you should have done the following:

Setup a project
Create a topic
Add a subscription (you should have the role logging.admin explicitly set on your account; for more information, see associated documentation)
Try your setup by publishing a message to the topic

Next, create a dedicated service account. At the end of the documentation you should have done the following:

Create a service account with the role Pub/Sub Subscriber
Create and download JSON keys (service account credentials)

You should now have:

A credentials file
A project ID
A subscription ID

To pull events, you have to:

Go to the playbooks' page
Click on +New playbook to create a new playbook
Select Use a template when creating a playbook
Search for Google Cloud then select Forward Google Pubsub records to SEKOIA.IO

This playbook consumes records from Google Pubsub and pushes them to SEKOIA.IO.

You can also create your own on the same basis by using the "Google Pub/Sub" trigger (Connect to the specified)

Use the JSON keys (service account credentials) information downloaded to complete the fields on the trigger

Fields description

Field	Meaning
name	Configuration name
auth_provider_x509_cert_url	The URL of the public x509 certificate, used to verify the signature on JWTs, such as ID tokens, signed by the authentication provider. `https://wwww.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs`
auth_url	Google authentification url `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
client_email	Client email
client_id	Client id
client_x509_cert_url	The URL of the public x509 certificate, used to verify JWTs signed by the client
private_key	Private key
private_key_id	Private key id
project_id	Project id
token_uri	token server endpoint URI `https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token`
type	Activity type `service_account`

To start sending Logs to SEKOIA.IO, please create a Logs Router Sinks with an Inclusion Filter that fits your needs (Read the documentation dedicated to the product you want to monitor).

Last configuration on Google to setup is describe on each Intake.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source	Description
`Process use of network`	VPC Flow Logs records sample for network flows samples from Google Cloud instances

In details, the following table denotes the type of events produced by this integration.

Name	Values
Kind	`event`
Category	`network`
Type	`info`

Event Samples

Find below few samples of events and how they are normalized by SEKOIA.IO.

flow_logs_gke.jsonflow_logs_gke2.json

{
    "message": "{\n  \"insertId\": \"1sxgleif1dyxla\",\n  \"jsonPayload\": {\n    \"dest_gke_details\": {\n      \"cluster\": {\n        \"cluster_location\": \"europe-central2-a\",\n        \"cluster_name\": \"cluster-3\"\n      }\n    },\n    \"src_location\": {\n      \"continent\": \"Europe\",\n      \"country\": \"pol\",\n      \"asn\": 15169\n    },\n    \"dest_vpc\": {\n      \"vpc_name\": \"foo\",\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\",\n      \"subnetwork_name\": \"foo\"\n    },\n    \"start_time\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:42.501046130Z\",\n    \"end_time\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:42.768509812Z\",\n    \"bytes_sent\": \"1872\",\n    \"reporter\": \"DEST\",\n    \"connection\": {\n      \"src_ip\": \"34.118.64.229\",\n      \"dest_port\": 45950,\n      \"dest_ip\": \"10.0.0.4\",\n      \"src_port\": 443,\n      \"protocol\": 6\n    },\n    \"dest_instance\": {\n      \"region\": \"europe-central2\",\n      \"zone\": \"europe-central2-a\",\n      \"vm_name\": \"gke-cluster-3-default-pool-4e355575-tdhx\",\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\"\n    },\n    \"packets_sent\": \"16\"\n  },\n  \"resource\": {\n    \"type\": \"gce_subnetwork\",\n    \"labels\": {\n      \"subnetwork_id\": \"7449846049104218257\",\n      \"subnetwork_name\": \"foo\",\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\",\n      \"location\": \"europe-central2-a\"\n    }\n  },\n  \"timestamp\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:43.654174991Z\",\n  \"logName\": \"projects/hazel-aria-348413/logs/compute.googleapis.com%2Fvpc_flows\",\n  \"receiveTimestamp\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:43.654174991Z\"\n}",
    "event": {
        "end": "2022-06-03T12:09:42.768509812Z",
        "start": "2022-06-03T12:09:42.501046130Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "category": [
            "network"
        ],
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "network": {
        "bytes": 1872,
        "packets": 16,
        "iana_number": "6",
        "name": "foo"
    },
    "google_vpc_flow_logs": {
        "jsonPayload": {
            "reporter": "DEST",
            "connection": {
                "protocol": 6
            },
            "dest_vpc": {
                "vpc_name": "foo"
            },
            "dest_gke_details": {
                "cluster": {
                    "cluster_location": "europe-central2-a"
                }
            }
        },
        "resource": {
            "labels": {
                "subnetwork_id": "7449846049104218257",
                "subnetwork_name": "foo"
            },
            "type": "gce_subnetwork"
        },
        "insertId": "1sxgleif1dyxla",
        "logName": "projects/hazel-aria-348413/logs/compute.googleapis.com%2Fvpc_flows",
        "receiveTimestamp": "2022-06-03T12:09:43.654174991Z"
    },
    "server": {
        "geo": {
            "name": "europe-central2-a"
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "project": {
            "id": "hazel-aria-348413"
        },
        "region": "europe-central2",
        "availability_zone": "europe-central2-a"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-03T12:09:43.654174991Z",
    "destination": {
        "ip": "10.0.0.4",
        "port": 45950,
        "address": "10.0.0.4"
    },
    "source": {
        "ip": "34.118.64.229",
        "port": 443,
        "as": {
            "number": 15169
        },
        "geo": {
            "continent_name": "Europe",
            "country_iso_code": "POL"
        },
        "address": "34.118.64.229"
    },
    "host": {
        "name": "gke-cluster-3-default-pool-4e355575-tdhx"
    },
    "orchestrator": {
        "cluster": {
            "name": "cluster-3"
        },
        "type": "kubernetes"
    },
    "related": {
        "ip": [
            "10.0.0.4",
            "34.118.64.229"
        ]
    }
}

{
    "message": "{\n  \"insertId\": \"17aa0kaf4hig5c\",\n  \"jsonPayload\": {\n    \"end_time\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:44.424429165Z\",\n    \"packets_sent\": \"32\",\n    \"src_location\": {\n      \"asn\": 15169,\n      \"country\": \"pol\",\n      \"continent\": \"Europe\"\n    },\n    \"start_time\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:44.421947861Z\",\n    \"dest_vpc\": {\n      \"subnetwork_name\": \"foo\",\n      \"vpc_name\": \"foo\",\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\"\n    },\n    \"bytes_sent\": \"33792\",\n    \"reporter\": \"DEST\",\n    \"dest_instance\": {\n      \"region\": \"europe-central2\",\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\",\n      \"vm_name\": \"gke-cluster-3-default-pool-4e355575-k1w8\",\n      \"zone\": \"europe-central2-a\"\n    },\n    \"dest_gke_details\": {\n      \"cluster\": {\n        \"cluster_location\": \"europe-central2-a\",\n        \"cluster_name\": \"cluster-3\"\n      }\n    },\n    \"connection\": {\n      \"protocol\": 6,\n      \"dest_ip\": \"10.0.0.3\",\n      \"src_ip\": \"34.118.64.229\",\n      \"src_port\": 443,\n      \"dest_port\": 41834\n    }\n  },\n  \"resource\": {\n    \"type\": \"gce_subnetwork\",\n    \"labels\": {\n      \"project_id\": \"hazel-aria-348413\",\n      \"subnetwork_name\": \"foo\",\n      \"subnetwork_id\": \"7449846049104218257\",\n      \"location\": \"europe-central2-a\"\n    }\n  },\n  \"timestamp\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:52.418604934Z\",\n  \"logName\": \"projects/hazel-aria-348413/logs/compute.googleapis.com%2Fvpc_flows\",\n  \"receiveTimestamp\": \"2022-06-03T12:09:52.418604934Z\"\n}",
    "event": {
        "end": "2022-06-03T12:09:44.424429165Z",
        "start": "2022-06-03T12:09:44.421947861Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "category": [
            "network"
        ],
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "network": {
        "bytes": 33792,
        "packets": 32,
        "iana_number": "6",
        "name": "foo"
    },
    "google_vpc_flow_logs": {
        "jsonPayload": {
            "reporter": "DEST",
            "connection": {
                "protocol": 6
            },
            "dest_vpc": {
                "vpc_name": "foo"
            },
            "dest_gke_details": {
                "cluster": {
                    "cluster_location": "europe-central2-a"
                }
            }
        },
        "resource": {
            "labels": {
                "subnetwork_id": "7449846049104218257",
                "subnetwork_name": "foo"
            },
            "type": "gce_subnetwork"
        },
        "insertId": "17aa0kaf4hig5c",
        "logName": "projects/hazel-aria-348413/logs/compute.googleapis.com%2Fvpc_flows",
        "receiveTimestamp": "2022-06-03T12:09:52.418604934Z"
    },
    "server": {
        "geo": {
            "name": "europe-central2-a"
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "project": {
            "id": "hazel-aria-348413"
        },
        "region": "europe-central2",
        "availability_zone": "europe-central2-a"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-03T12:09:52.418604934Z",
    "destination": {
        "ip": "10.0.0.3",
        "port": 41834,
        "address": "10.0.0.3"
    },
    "source": {
        "ip": "34.118.64.229",
        "port": 443,
        "as": {
            "number": 15169
        },
        "geo": {
            "continent_name": "Europe",
            "country_iso_code": "POL"
        },
        "address": "34.118.64.229"
    },
    "host": {
        "name": "gke-cluster-3-default-pool-4e355575-k1w8"
    },
    "orchestrator": {
        "cluster": {
            "name": "cluster-3"
        },
        "type": "kubernetes"
    },
    "related": {
        "ip": [
            "10.0.0.3",
            "34.118.64.229"
        ]
    }
}

Extracted Fields

The following table lists the fields that are extracted, normalized under the ECS format, analyzed and indexed by the parser. It should be noted that infered fields are not listed.

Name	Type	Description
`@timestamp`	`date`	Date/time when the event originated.
`cloud.availability_zone`	`keyword`	Availability zone in which this host, resource, or service is located.
`cloud.project.id`	`keyword`	The cloud project id.
`cloud.region`	`keyword`	Region in which this host, resource, or service is located.
`destination.ip`	`ip`	IP address of the destination.
`destination.port`	`long`	Port of the destination.
`event.category`	`keyword`	Event category. The second categorization field in the hierarchy.
`event.end`	`date`	event.end contains the date when the event ended or when the activity was last observed.
`event.kind`	`keyword`	The kind of the event. The highest categorization field in the hierarchy.
`event.start`	`date`	event.start contains the date when the event started or when the activity was first observed.
`event.type`	`keyword`	Event type. The third categorization field in the hierarchy.
`google_vpc_flow_logs.insertId`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.jsonPayload.connection.protocol`	`number`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.jsonPayload.dest_gke_details.cluster.cluster_location`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.jsonPayload.dest_vpc.vpc_name`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.jsonPayload.reporter`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.logName`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.receiveTimestamp`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.resource.labels.subnetwork_id`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.resource.labels.subnetwork_name`	`keyword`
`google_vpc_flow_logs.resource.type`	`keyword`
`host.name`	`keyword`	Name of the host.
`network.bytes`	`long`	Total bytes transferred in both directions.
`network.iana_number`	`keyword`	IANA Protocol Number.
`network.name`	`keyword`	Name given by operators to sections of their network.
`network.packets`	`long`	Total packets transferred in both directions.
`orchestrator.cluster.name`	`keyword`	Name of the cluster.
`orchestrator.type`	`keyword`	Orchestrator cluster type (e.g. kubernetes, nomad or cloudfoundry).
`server.geo.name`	`keyword`	User-defined description of a location.
`source.as.number`	`long`	Unique number allocated to the autonomous system.
`source.geo.continent_name`	`keyword`	Name of the continent.
`source.geo.country_iso_code`	`keyword`	Country ISO code.
`source.ip`	`ip`	IP address of the source.
`source.port`	`long`	Port of the source.

Google VPC Flow Logs configuration

To start working with VPC Flow Logs, activate the option by editing or creating a subnet (see Google's documentation)

This subnet can be assigned to your node or kubernetes cluster.

The network logs should now be visible in Cloud Logging. A filter can now be created to stream your logs to SEKOIA.IO. To create this filter, follow this documentation.

Start the playbook and enjoy your events.