Collectors

Samurai Collectors are used to receive and transport telemetry from your security controls, network devices or cloud services to the Samurai platform.

There are three types of collectors:

1. Cloud Collector

deployed within the Samurai platform and is used to gather telemetry from cloud services and/or security controls. For a cloud collector you simply need to complete the relevant integration.

2. Cloud Native Collector

a transport method to gather telemetry from public cloud products and services, specifically Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supported third parties. This collector type is used for monitoring cloud storage (Azure Blob and/or AWS S3) to pull data into the Samurai ingestion pipeline.

3. Local Collector

deployed within your environment and is used to gather telemetry from your security controls and network devices. We have packaged the local collector to support multiple formats and envionments.

What type of Collector do you require?

This is dependent on the products you want to integrate with Samurai:

For products deployed in your internal network, a Local Collector will be required to gather (pull & push) telemetry data and securely transfer it to the Samurai platform.
For cloud based products providing API endpoints, a Cloud Collector will be used to pull the telemetry data and securely transfer it to the Samurai platform.
For cloud based products utilizing streaming of telemetry data, a Cloud Native Collector will be required to receive the telemetry data and securely transfer it to the Samurai platform.

Next steps:

Review our Supported Integrations and associated Integration Guides to determine the collector type(s) required. Within each Integration Guide there is a table denoting use of a Local, Cloud or Cloud Native Collector, alternatively this is displayed in the Samurai MDR portal when working through an integration.
You may also choose to jump directly to the Samurai MDR portal and review integrations
If you have determined you require a local collector then click on Samurai Local Collector and follow the steps to create, configure and install.
If you have determined you require a Cloud Native collector then click on Samurai Cloud Native Collector and follow the steps to create and configure.