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securityonion/salt/telegraf/soc_telegraf.yaml
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Josh Patterson 72f60fcaa9 FIX: remove the docker socket from so-telegraf
so-telegraf mounted /var/run/docker.sock and joined the host docker group on
every node type. The :ro flag blocks write() to the inode, not connect() plus
HTTP over the socket, so any code execution inside the container could reach
POST /containers/create with Privileged:true and become root on the host.

No telegraf script used the socket; the only consumer was the native
[[inputs.docker]] plugin, and group_add 920 existed solely to feed it.
Container metrics now come from so-container-stats, a collector that runs on
the host from cron and writes influx line protocol to a file telegraf already
had mounted. This is the pattern so-status, so-raid-status and
so-elasticagent-status already use, so the privileged docker access stays on
the host side where root cron already ran it.

The collector runs as somon, a service account in the docker group with no
login shell and a locked password, rather than root. Docker group membership
is still root-equivalent on the host, so this is defense in depth rather than
a privilege boundary.

The telegraf scripts were root:939 mode 770, letting socore rewrite them for
code execution inside the container; they are now 750, which still allows the
read and execute telegraf needs. The container also ran with no group, giving
it gid 0, and now runs as 939:939. That alone would have broken
lasthighstate.sh, which reached /opt/so/log/salt only via the root group and
could not tell an unreadable file from a missing one, so it silently reported
a 56 year highstate age. Only the lasthighstate file is bind mounted now, and
the script tests readability instead of existence.

Everything inputs.docker collected beyond the five fields the shipped
dashboards query is available per stat under telegraf:container_stats,
annotated for SOC so an operator can enable it without editing files. Defaults
reproduce the previous output exactly. With every stat enabled the emitted
field set matches what inputs.docker wrote, verified by running the plugin
against the live socket and diffing: 53 fields, no type mismatches, no field
present on one side only.

Two deliberate differences: max_usage carries the real cgroup peak where the
daemon reports 0 on cgroup v2, and host-network containers emit no
docker_container_net row, matching inputs.docker. Docker label tags are not
restored, since nothing queries them and they cost significant cardinality.

so-status, the influxdb size cron, so-elasticagent-status, so-raid-status and
so-common-status-check truncated their output in place while telegraf read it,
so telegraf periodically saw an empty file and logged a parse error or emitted
empty values. They now write aside and rename. Measured on a live manager, the
old so-status cron left status.log empty for 215 of 10997 reads.

Tested on a fresh install, a converted grid and a 3.0 upgrade.
2026-09-24 14:30:25 -04:00

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YAML

telegraf:
enabled:
description: Enables the grid metrics collection process. WARNING - Security Onion grid health monitoring requires this process to remain enabled. Disabling it will cause unexpected and unsupported results.
forcedType: bool
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
output:
description: Selects the backend(s) Telegraf writes metrics to. INFLUXDB keeps the current behavior; POSTGRES writes to the grid's Postgres instance; BOTH dual-writes for migration validation. When set to BOTH, the grid screen's metrics are pulled from Postgres, and the InfluxDB tool link remains visible. When set to POSTGRES, the InfluxDB tool link is removed.
options:
- INFLUXDB
- POSTGRES
- BOTH
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
config:
interval:
description: Data collection interval.
global: True
helpLink: influxdb
metric_batch_size:
description: Data collection batch size.
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
metric_buffer_limit:
description: Data collection buffer size.
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
collection_jitter:
description: Jitter of the flush interval.
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
flush_interval:
description: Flush interval for all outputs.
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
flush_jitter:
description: Jitter the flush interval.
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
debug:
description: Run telegraf with debug log messages
forcedType: bool
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
quiet:
description: Run telegraf in quiet mode (error log messages only).
forcedType: bool
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_stats:
tags:
identity:
description: Adds the container_image, container_version, engine_host and server_version tags to every container measurement, as the retired inputs.docker plugin did. Increases series cardinality. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
engine:
n_containers:
description: Total number of containers known to the Docker engine, running or not. Part of the engine-level docker measurement. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_containers_running:
description: Number of containers currently running. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_containers_stopped:
description: Number of containers currently stopped. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_containers_paused:
description: Number of containers currently paused. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_images:
description: Number of container images held by the Docker engine. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_cpus:
description: Number of CPUs the Docker engine reports for this host. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_goroutines:
description: Number of goroutines inside the Docker daemon. Diagnostic detail for the daemon itself. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_used_file_descriptors:
description: Number of file descriptors held open by the Docker daemon. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
n_listener_events:
description: Number of event listeners subscribed to the Docker daemon. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
memory_total:
description: Total physical memory the Docker engine reports for this host, in bytes. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
cpu:
usage_percent:
description: Percentage of host CPU consumed by the container. Required by the Container CPU Usage chart on the Security Onion Performance dashboard.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
usage_total:
description: Cumulative CPU time consumed by the container, in nanoseconds. Read from the cgroup. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
usage_in_usermode:
description: Cumulative CPU time consumed in user mode, in nanoseconds. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
usage_in_kernelmode:
description: Cumulative CPU time consumed in kernel mode, in nanoseconds. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
usage_system:
description: Cumulative host-wide CPU time, in nanoseconds. Used as the denominator when calculating container CPU percentage. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
throttling_periods:
description: Number of CPU enforcement periods the container has seen. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
throttling_throttled_periods:
description: Number of periods in which the container was throttled against its CPU limit. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
throttling_throttled_time:
description: Total time the container spent throttled, in nanoseconds. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_id: &containerid
description: Full 64 character container ID, emitted as a field on this measurement. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
mem:
usage_percent:
description: Percentage of its memory limit the container is using. Required by the Container Memory Usage chart on the Security Onion Performance dashboard.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
usage:
description: Container memory usage in bytes, excluding reclaimable page cache. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
limit:
description: Memory limit for the container in bytes. Reports total host memory when the container is unlimited. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
max_usage:
description: Peak memory usage for the container in bytes, read from the cgroup peak counter. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
active_anon:
description: Anonymous memory on the active LRU list, in bytes. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
active_file:
description: Page cache on the active LRU list, in bytes. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
inactive_anon:
description: Anonymous memory on the inactive LRU list, in bytes. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
inactive_file:
description: Page cache on the inactive LRU list, in bytes. This is the reclaimable cache subtracted from usage. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
unevictable:
description: Memory that cannot be reclaimed, in bytes. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
pgfault:
description: Cumulative number of page faults taken by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
pgmajfault:
description: Cumulative number of major page faults, those requiring disk access. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_id: *containerid
net:
rx_bytes:
description: Bytes received by the container across all interfaces except loopback. Required by the Container Traffic - Inbound chart on the Security Onion Performance dashboard.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
rx_packets:
description: Packets received by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
rx_errors:
description: Receive errors counted on the container interfaces. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
rx_dropped:
description: Received packets dropped by the container interfaces. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
tx_bytes:
description: Bytes transmitted by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
tx_packets:
description: Packets transmitted by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
tx_errors:
description: Transmit errors counted on the container interfaces. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
tx_dropped:
description: Transmitted packets dropped by the container interfaces. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_id: *containerid
blkio:
io_service_bytes_recursive_read:
description: Cumulative bytes read from block devices by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
io_service_bytes_recursive_write:
description: Cumulative bytes written to block devices by the container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_id: *containerid
status:
uptime_ns:
description: How long the container has been running, in nanoseconds. Required by the Container Uptime chart on the Security Onion Performance dashboard.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
oomkilled:
description: Whether the container was killed by the kernel out-of-memory handler. Required by the Most Recent Container Events table on the Security Onion Performance dashboard.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
pid:
description: Host process ID of the container main process. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
exitcode:
description: Exit code of the container main process. Meaningful once the container has stopped. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
restart_count:
description: Number of times the Docker engine has restarted this container. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
started_at:
description: Time the container last started, as a Unix timestamp in nanoseconds. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
finished_at:
description: Time the container last exited, as a Unix timestamp in nanoseconds. Absent for a container that has never exited. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
container_id: *containerid
health:
health_status:
description: Result of the container healthcheck, such as healthy, unhealthy or starting. Only emitted for containers that define a healthcheck. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
failing_streak:
description: Number of consecutive failed healthchecks. Only emitted for containers that define a healthcheck. Defaults to off.
forcedType: bool
global: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
scripts:
eval: &telegrafscripts
description: List of input.exec scripts to run for this node type. The script must be present in salt/telegraf/scripts.
forcedType: "[]string"
multiline: True
advanced: True
helpLink: influxdb
standalone: *telegrafscripts
manager: *telegrafscripts
managersearch: *telegrafscripts
import: *telegrafscripts
sensor: *telegrafscripts
heavynode: *telegrafscripts
idh: *telegrafscripts
searchnode: *telegrafscripts
receiver: *telegrafscripts
fleet: *telegrafscripts
desktop: *telegrafscripts