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+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        ⚠️ This category is solely for conversations related to Security Onion 2.4 ⚠️
+
+        If your organization needs more immediate, enterprise grade professional support, with one-on-one virtual meetings and screensharing, contact us via our website: https://securityonion.com/support
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Version
+      description: Which version of Security Onion 2.4.x are you asking about?
+      options:
+        -
+        - 2.4 Pre-release (Beta, Release Candidate)
+        - 2.4.10
+        - 2.4.20
+        - 2.4.30
+        - 2.4.40
+        - 2.4.50
+        - 2.4.60
+        - 2.4.70
+        - 2.4.80
+        - 2.4.90
+        - 2.4.100
+        - Other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Installation Method
+      description: How did you install Security Onion?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Security Onion ISO image
+        - Network installation on Red Hat derivative like Oracle, Rocky, Alma, etc.
+        - Network installation on Ubuntu
+        - Network installation on Debian
+        - Other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Description
+      description: >
+        Is this discussion about installation, configuration, upgrading, or other?
+      options:
+        -
+        - installation
+        - configuration
+        - upgrading
+        - other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Installation Type
+      description: >
+        When you installed, did you choose Import, Eval, Standalone, Distributed, or something else?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Import
+        - Eval
+        - Standalone
+        - Distributed
+        - other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Location
+      description: >
+        Is this deployment in the cloud, on-prem with Internet access, or airgap?
+      options:
+        -
+        - cloud
+        - on-prem with Internet access
+        - airgap
+        - other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Hardware Specs
+      description: >
+        Does your hardware meet or exceed the minimum requirements for your installation type as shown at https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.4/hardware.html?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Meets minimum requirements
+        - Exceeds minimum requirements
+        - Does not meet minimum requirements
+        - other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: CPU
+      description: How many CPU cores do you have?
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: RAM
+      description: How much RAM do you have?
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Storage for /
+      description: How much storage do you have for the / partition?
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: input
+    attributes:
+      label: Storage for /nsm
+      description: How much storage do you have for the /nsm partition?
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Network Traffic Collection
+      description: >
+        Are you collecting network traffic from a tap or span port?
+      options:
+        -
+        - tap
+        - span port
+        - other (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Network Traffic Speeds
+      description: >
+        How much network traffic are you monitoring?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Less than 1Gbps
+        - 1Gbps to 10Gbps
+        - more than 10Gbps
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Status
+      description: >
+        Does SOC Grid show all services on all nodes as running OK?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Yes, all services on all nodes are running OK
+        - No, one or more services are failed (please provide detail below)
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Salt Status
+      description: >
+        Do you get any failures when you run "sudo salt-call state.highstate"?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Yes, there are salt failures (please provide detail below)
+        - No, there are no failures
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Logs
+      description: >
+        Are there any additional clues in /opt/so/log/?
+      options:
+        -
+        - Yes, there are additional clues in /opt/so/log/ (please provide detail below)
+        - No, there are no additional clues
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Detail
+      description: Please read our discussion guidelines at https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/discussions/1720 and then provide detailed information to help us help you.
+      placeholder: |-
+        STOP! Before typing, please read our discussion guidelines at https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/discussions/1720 in their entirety!
+
+        If your organization needs more immediate, enterprise grade professional support, with one-on-one virtual meetings and screensharing, contact us via our website: https://securityonion.com/support
+    validations:
+      required: true
+  - type: checkboxes
+    attributes:
+      label: Guidelines
+      options:
+        - label: I have read the discussion guidelines at https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/discussions/1720 and assert that I have followed the guidelines.
+          required: true