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Add Log level to suricata.log when using JSON type

Added by Eric Urban about 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

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Currently the log level (Info, Warning, Error, etc.) is missing from the suricata.log file when choosing JSON as the type.

Here is an example of the log output in 4.0.5:

{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T10:43:51.454590-0600","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"This is Suricata version 4.0.5 RELEASE"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T10:43:51.454766-0600","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"CPUs\/cores online: 1"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T10:43:51.459482-0600","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"Found an MTU of 1500 for 'eth0'"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T10:43:51.459548-0600","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"Found an MTU of 1500 for 'eth0'"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T10:43:51.482034-0600","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"Running in live mode, activating unix socket"}}

This request is to add the log level, as this is useful when using logging for alerting purposes.

An example of the desired output is:

{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T12:05:27.806528-0600","log_level":"Notice","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"This is Suricata version 4.0.5 RELEASE"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T12:05:27.806976-0600","log_level":"Info","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"CPUs\/cores online: 1"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T12:05:27.812498-0600","log_level":"Info","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"Found an MTU of 1500 for 'eth0'"}}
{"timestamp":"2018-11-09T12:05:27.812555-0600","log_level":"Info","event_type":"engine","engine":{"message":"Found an MTU of 1500 for 'eth0'"}}

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