How to send Cowrie output to Datadog Log Management
This guide describes how to configure and send cowrie outputs to Datadog Log Management.
Datadog output module Prerequisites
Working Cowrie installation
Existing Datadog account.
Cowrie Configuration for Datadog output module
Modify
cowrie.cfg
to enable the[output_datadog]
section.Add an API Key. You may generate one for your organisation from here.
Optionally customize
ddsource
,ddtags
andservice
. Otherwise, defaults are respectivelycowrie
,env:prod
andhoneypot
.
Datadog Configuration
JSON logs are handled without further configuration in Datadog.