How to configure Suricata to send alerts via email

Answered 11 months ago (May 22, 2023) by Eldernode Staff

To configure Suricata to send email alerts, you can follow these steps:

– Open the Suricata configuration file with /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml or /etc/suricata/suricata.yml and find the outputs section.

– To enable email alerts, remove or add the following lines:

outputs:   - fast:       enabled: yes       filename: fast.log   - smtp:       enabled: yes       recipient: [email protected]       from: [email protected]       smtp-server: smtp.example.com       smtp-port: 587       smtp-username: your_username       smtp-password: your_password

Replace the location variable values with your email address (recipient), the email address you want to appear as the sender (from), SMTP server address, port, username and password.
– Save the configuration file after making the necessary changes and restart Suricata.