integration

XML section name

<integration>
</integration>

This configures the manager to connect Wazuh to external APIs and alerting tools such as Slack, PagerDuty and VirusTotal.

Options

name

This indicates the service to integrate with.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

slack, pagerduty, virustotal, any string that begins with 'custom-'

Note

In the case of custom external integration, name must begin with custom- for example: custom-myintegration. Read the How to integrate external software using Integrator document for more information.

hook_url

This is the URL provided by Slack when integration is enabled on the Slack side. This is mandatory for Slack.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Slack URL

api_key

This is the key that you would have retrieved from the PagerDuty or VirusTotal API. This is mandatory for PagerDuty and VirusTotal.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

PagerDuty/VirusTotal Api key

Optional filters

level

This filters alerts by rule level so that only alerts with the specified level or above are pushed.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Any alert level from 0 to 16

rule_id

This filters alerts by rule ID.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Comma-separated rule IDs

group

This filters alerts by rule group. For the VirusTotal integration, only rules from the syscheck group are available.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Any rule group or vertical bar-separated rule groups.

event_location

This filters alerts by where the event originated. Follows the OS_Regex Syntax.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

Any single log file.

alert_format

This writes the alert file in the JSON format. The Integrator makes use this file to fetch fields values.

Default value

n/a

Allowed values

json

max_log

The maximum length of an alert snippet that will be sent to the Integrator. Longer strings will be truncated with ...

Default value

165

Allowed values

Any integer from 165 to 1024 inclusive.

Configuration example 

<!-- Integration with Slack -->
<integration>
  <name>slack</name>
  <hook_url>https://hooks.slack.com/services/...</hook_url> <!-- Replace with your Slack hook URL -->
  <level>10</level>
  <group>multiple_drops|authentication_failures</group>
  <alert_format>json</alert_format>
</integration>

<!-- Integration with PagerDuty -->
<integration>
  <name>pagerduty</name>
  <api_key>API_KEY</api_key> <!-- Replace with your PagerDuty API key -->
</integration>

<!-- Integration with VirusTotal -->
<integration>
  <name>virustotal</name>
  <api_key>API_KEY</api_key> <!-- Replace with your VirusTotal API key -->
  <group>syscheck</group>
  <alert_format>json</alert_format>
</integration>

<!--Custom external Integration -->
<integration>
  <name>custom-integration</name>
  <hook_url>WEBHOOK</hook_url>
  <level>10</level>
  <group>multiple_drops|authentication_failures</group>
  <api_key>APIKEY</api_key> <!-- Replace with your external service API key -->
  <alert_format>json</alert_format>
</integration>