Troubleshooting

Wazuh API seems to be down

This issue means that your Wazuh API might be unavailable. Check the status of the Wazuh manager to check if the service is active:

# systemctl status wazuh-manager

# service wazuh-manager status

If the Wazuh API is running, try to fetch data using the CLI from the Wazuh dashboard server:

# curl -k -X GET "https://<api_url>:55000/" -H "Authorization: Bearer $(curl -u <api_user>:<api_password> -k -X GET 'https://<api_url>:55000/security/user/authenticate?raw=true')"

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                               Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100   271  100   271    0     0    879      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   882
  {"data": {"title": "Wazuh API REST", "api_version": "4.1.1", "revision": 40110, "license_name": "GPL 2.0", "license_url": "https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/blob/4.1/LICENSE", "hostname": "localhost.localdomain", "timestamp": "2021-03-03T10:01:18+0000"}, "error": 0}

I do not see alerts in the Wazuh dashboard

The first step is to check if there are alerts in Wazuh indexer.

# curl https://<WAZUH_INDEXER_IP>:9200/_cat/indices/wazuh-alerts-* -u <wazuh_indexer_user>:<wazuh_indexer_password> -k

 green open wazuh-alerts-4.x-2021.03.03 xwFPX7nFQxGy-O5aBA3LFQ 3 0 340 0 672.6kb 672.6kb

If you do not see any Wazuh related index, it means you have no alerts stored in Wazuh indexer.

To ensure that Filebeat is correctly configured, run the following command:

# filebeat test output

elasticsearch: https://127.0.0.1:9200...
  parse url... OK
  connection...
    parse host... OK
    dns lookup... OK
    addresses: 127.0.0.1
    dial up... OK
  TLS...
    security: server's certificate chain verification is enabled
    handshake... OK
    TLS version: TLSv1.3
    dial up... OK
  talk to server... OK
  version: 7.10.2

Could not connect to API with id: default: 3003 - Missing param: API USERNAME

Starting Wazuh 4.0 the Wazuh API username variable changed from user to username. It’s necessary to change the credentials (foo:bar are no longer accepted) as well as the name of the variable in the /usr/share/wazuh-dashboard/data/wazuh/config/wazuh.yml configuration file. For example, the configuration can be:

hosts:
 - production:
     url: https://localhost
     port: 55000
     username: wazuh-wui
     password: wazuh-wui
     run_as: false

None of the above solutions are fixing my problem

We have a welcoming community which can help you with most of the problems you might have regarding Wazuh deployment and usage https://wazuh.com/community.

Also, you can contact us opening issues in our GitHub repositories under the organization.

We will be interested in the log files of your deployment. You can check them out on each component:

Check the following log files:

• Wazuh indexer:

# cat /var/log/wazuh-indexer/wazuh-cluster.log | grep -i -E "error|warn"

• Wazuh manager:

# cat /var/log/filebeat/filebeat | grep -i -E "error|warn"

# cat /var/ossec/logs/ossec.log | grep -i -E "error|warn"

• Wazuh dashboard:

# journalctl -u wazuh-dashboard

# cat /usr/share/wazuh-dashboard/data/wazuh/logs/wazuhapp.log | grep -i -E "error|warn"

Note

The Wazuh indexer uses the /var/log folder to store logs by default.

Warning

By default, Wazuh dashboard doesn’t store logs on a file. You can change this by configuring logging.dest setting in the opensearch_dashboard.yml configuration file.