Integration Actions
Select the action you wish to take and jump to the relevant section:
- Create Integration
- View Integrations
- View Integration Details
- Integration Status
- Hide Integration
- Delete Integration
If you are new to integrations you should review Integrations Overview
Create Integration
- From your Samurai MDR portal tenant click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Click Create integration
- Select the product you wish to integrate with the Samurai platform
- Click Next. Dependent on how we collect telemetry, the product may be integrated via a Cloud Collector, a Cloud Native Collector or Local Collector. Follow the steps based on the Collector type:
Cloud Collector
- If the integration is cloud-based it will be added to the Cloud Collector which shall be displayed - Select Next
- Select Configuration Guide which will direct you to Samurai documentation outlining how to configure your product and obtain required fields.
- Once you have configured your product, complete the required fields
- Select Finish
Cloud Native Collector
- Your Cloud Native Collector(s) will be listed. Select the Cloud Native Collector that you will integrate the product/service with. If you do not have a Cloud Native Collector listed per setup, follow the steps in our Samurai Cloud Native Collector article.
- Click Next
- Your cloud resource information will be displayed for your confirmation and to use if following the configuration guide.
- Click Configuration Guide which will direct you to Samurai documentation outlining how to configure your product/service.
- Click Finish
Local Collector
- Your Local Collector(s) will be listed. Select the Local Collector that you will integrate the product with.
- Click Next (typically this is the syslog destination host when configuring your device). If you do not have a Local Collector setup and deployed, follow the steps in our Samurai Local Collector article.
- The Local Collector IP Address will be displayed, copy the IP address or take note of it.
- Click Configuration Guide which will direct you to Samurai documentation outlining how to configure your product.
- Based on the product, Extended Data Collection may be displayed, if so jump to Extended Data Collection.
- Click Finish
You do not need to follow the steps above for a Local Collector integration, however we advise you follow the steps to determine if extended data collection is available for the product, and if you wish to enable it. You may choose to follow our configuration guides to send logs directly to your Local Collector, the Samurai platform will auto detect the vendor and product for supported integrations. If we do not support the product, your integration will be displayed as unknown under the Vendor and Product fields, however the Samurai platform will store the telemetry data.
Extended Data Collection
For many products we are able to collect extended data enhancing our threat detection capabilities and accuracy, for example Packet Capture (PCAP) data. This option will be displayed during configuration of an integration.
- If extended data collection is available for the product, you can choose to enable or disable via the toggle. If you choose to disable, Select Finish
- If you choose to enable extended data collection you must complete all the necessary fields. The parameters for each field are derived from following the associated product configuration guide. Once complete, Select Finish
You can choose to follow the configuration guide at anytime during the process, however if your product is not configured, the Samurai platform will obviously not receive any telemetry.
All supported third-party product configuration guides can be found here.
View Integration
There are multiple methods of viewing your integrations.
If you wish to view integrations associated with a specific collector:
- From your Samurai MDR portal tenant click Telemetry and select Collectors from the main menu
- Select the relevant Collector
- All integrations associated with the Collector will be displayed with associated information
You can also view all integrations regardless of collector:
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations in the main menu
- All of your Integrations will be listed
A single product integration may be displayed multiple times based on telemetry data ingested. For example, if you enabled Extended Data Collection whilst creating an integration the individual product will be displayed multiple times with different Type fields associated - see below for further explanation.
What are the Integration fields?
Status: Color indication of integration status
Status Description: Description of the status
Info: An info icon () will be displayed if:
- the integration is unsupported (unknown Vendor and Product)
- the integration does not send enough events to trigger a telemetry monitoring notification. Refer to Telemetry Monitoring for additional information
ID: Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for integration
Vendor: Vendor name of the product
Product: Product name
Type: Integration type used to gather or ingest telemetry. Potential entries you could see here include:
- Log: Displayed when a telemetry source sends logs (typically via syslog)
- Local: Displayed when we leverage an API from a Samurai local collector to gather telemetry
- Cloud: Displayed when we leverage an API from a Samurai cloud collector to gather telemetry
- Cloud Native: Displayed when we leverage a cloud native collector to ingest data from your cloud storage
Name: Integration name you provided during configuration
IP Address: IP address of the host
Collector: Collector name associated with the integration
Description: Optional description you provided during integration configuration
Last Event Seen: The last event seen from the telemetry source in the format [yyyy:mm:dd], [hh:mm:ss] with time represented in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
Created: Date and time of integration creation in the format[yyyy:mm:dd], [hh:mm:ss] with time represented in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
Select Columns to enable or disable visible fields and Filters to filter on fields.
Views
You can save filters you set through views. This is useful if, for example, you have a large number of integrations and wish to view only specific products or types of integration.
Click Views to save/reset/delete your different filters. Once saved you can toggle between views.
View Integration Details
There are multiple methods of viewing your integration details. If you wish to view integration details associated with a specific Collector:
- From your Samurai MDR portal click Telemetry and select Collectors from the main menu
- Select the relevant collector for your list
- All integrations associated with the collector will be displayed
- Find and click on your integrated product
You can also view all integration configuration regardless of collector:
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Find and click your integrated product
- Configuration parameters will be displayed
For integrations of type Log an events graph will be displayed. This is a useful indicator of the number of events over a given period and may show spikes and drops in events.
You can also pivot directly into Advanced Query by selecting the magnifying glass icon () to view the underlying event data.
By clicking the time period you can update the events graph to a specific date and time range. We default to the Last 7 days however have included Quick time ranges or you can specify a date and time period.
You can edit and update the integration description to help you keep track of your integrations.
View Integration Status
There are multiple methods of viewing your Integration status.
If you wish to view integration status associated with a specific Collector:
- From the Samurai MDR portal Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Select the relevant collector from your list
- All integrations listed related to the collector will be displayed with status color and description (if enabled)
You can also view status of all integrations regardless of collector:
- From your Samurai MDR portal Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- All integrations shall be displayed with a status color and description (if enabled)
Potential status displayed are included in the table below:
Status | Description |
---|---|
Provisioning | Telemetry components installing / provisioning |
Unknown | The Samurai platform is unable to determine a status |
Healthy | All components healthy |
No events seen in last 12 | The Samurai platform has not seen any events in the last 12 hours |
No events in last 24 hours | The Samurai platform has not seen any events in the last 24 hours - this typically triggers an email notification |
For more information about Integration status, please see the article on how to manage Integration Health.
Hide Integration
Hiding an integration will remove it from the integrations displayed and also from the Telemetry Monitoring view. Additionally if the integration is supported and the Samurai platform ingests no events, you will not receive an email notification.
Only integrations of type Log can be hidden. Some reasons why you may want to hide an integration include:
- You may want to hide all of your unsupported/generic log source integrations, the Samurai platform does monitor unsupported integrations for your convenience however does not notify you if events are not seen in 24 hours.
- You do not want to recieve any notifications if there is an issue with telemetry ingestion to the Samurai platform.
To hide an integration:
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Find the relevant Log integration
- Click on (more options) within the integrations table and select Hide integration
- A Hide Log Integration window will be displayed, click Confirm
To view any hidden integrations:
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Click (more options) at the top right of the window select Hidden log integrations
- A Hidden Log Integrations window will be displayed
Unhide Integration
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Click (more options) at the top right of the window select Hidden log integrations
- A Hidden Log Integrations window will be displayed
- Find the relevant hidden integration
- Click on (more options) within the integrations table and select Unhide integration
Hide, view and unhide functionality is also available within the Telemetry Monitoring view.
Delete Integration
If you delete an integration, it cannot be reversed! but events from the telemetry source will remain within the Samurai platform. However if the integration is auto-detected, it will reappear as type log if your telemetry source remains sending logs.
If you wish to delete an integration associated with a specific Collector:
- From your Samurai MDR portal Telemetry and select Collectors from the main menu
- Select the relevant collector from your list
- You will now see all integrations associated with the collector
- Select your integrations
- On the right hand side of the relevant integration, click on (more options) and select Delete Integration
- The following warning will appear: ‘Warning: This is a destructive action and cannot be reversed.’. To ensure you intended to delete the integration you will need to type in the highlighted ‘Integration’s Hostname’ and select Delete Integration
You can also delete from the Integrations menu item:
- Click Telemetry and select Integrations from the main menu
- Find and select your integrated product
- On the right hand side of the relevant integration, click on (more options) and select Delete Integration