Falco is an anomaly detection engine for cloud native
Questions tagged [falco]
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Logs not getting sent to AWS Cloudwatch when docker in detached or foreground
When I run the docker script in interactive mode it works. I can see the logs in the console and also in AWS CloudWatch Logs. The below docker script runs in interactive mode and I have added the awslogs configuration so the logs go into cloudwatch.…

kumar
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Falco installation on Digital Ocean Kubernetes
While installing falco on Digital Ocean managed kubernetes. I am getting the following error
Runtime error: can't open BPF probe '/root/.falco/falco-bpf.o': Errno 2. Exiting. I know this is caused because the ebpf probe was not installed on the…

Ajinkya16
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Loop crashes with Falco
I'm currently experimenting with Falco (a runtime monitoring solution for container).
I'm working locally on a Mac (Catalina v10.15.3), have Helm (v3.1.2) installed, Docker (version 2.2.0.5 (43884)) and K8s running (v1.15.5).
I try deploying Falco…

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Combining two different CMakefiles (gRPC and libsinsp) into a same program
I need to create a consolidated program with Libsinsp and gRPC.
How the program works?
Collects the syscall data with Libsinsp
Transfer the data with gRPC
I have created both programs, and would like to consolidate them into a single program.
I…

Jeremy Chong
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In /etc/falco i can't see falco_rules.yaml
In /etc/falco i can only see falco_rules.yaml . I can't see falco_rules.local.yaml or rules.d directory. I am installing through official helm chart
How to load local falco rule file with own set of rules ??

Abhishek Kumar
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How to define a rule to capture alerts when any manual command gets executed inside the container on Falco
Installed Falco drivers on the host.
Able to capture alerts for specific conditions like when there is a process spawned or if any script is getting executed inside the container. But the requirement is to trigger an alert whenever any manual…

Harika
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Issue installing Falco on K3s (PopOS)
I am trying to install Falco on my home lab (K3s v1.23.6+k3s1 on Pop!_OS v20.04). For work I need to create a response engine, for that I have chosen FalcoSidekick and OpenFAAS - before taking this to EKS I want to test it locally.
I am using the…

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Falco k8s, when add an exception, some fields become null
If I add an exception to the rule 'The docker client is executed in a container' like:
exceptions:
- name: kube_mon
fields: [container.image.repository, k8s.ns.name, k8s.pod.name]
comps: [=, =, startswith]
values:
- [repo/myimg,…

OlehR
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What is causing rules to fire repeatedly?
I have created a local test environment using minikube to test custom falco rules.
The goal is to search for keywords in the namespace and pod names and set an Info priority on them so they can be filtered out in Kibana.
The following are the custom…

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Falco output aws instance metadata
I run falco and falcosidekick with docker compose, without k8s.
I need to retrive aws instance metadata to falco rules output.
I've found the jevt field class but I encountered an error on falco container start
Invalid output format…

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Falco security and falcosidekick on docker compose
I'm trying to run falco and falcosikick container in a docker compose.
version: "3.9"
services:
falco:
image: falcosecurity/falco:latest
privileged: true
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/host/var/run/docker.sock
-…

Daniele
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Falco audit rules is not showing any alerts
I trying to enable falco audit rules.
[https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-audit-log-falco/][1]
Iam following this blog to get enable k8s audit rules in falco .
Iam using minikube v1.22.0 Kubernetes v1.21.2. As mentioned in the blog I created a audit…

Sathya
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How to identify commands ran by Ansible on a remote host in Falco context?
I would like to know if someone has an idea about how to identify commands ran by Ansible within a remote host.
To give you more context I'm gonna describe my workflow in-depth:
I have a scheduled job between 1 am to 6 am which runs a compliance…

Arch
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Falco k8s audit plugin usage
I am using Azure AKS cluster. Have deployed the falco helm chart with the k8s-audit plugin. But I am not getting any events for k8s-audit in the falco log.Following is the falco configuration.
falco:
falcoctl:
artifact:
…

Ajinkya16
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Why I do not see the file path in a simple falco rule output concerning the cat command?
Here is my rule:
- rule: My test rule
desc: Alert when cat is executed
condition: spawned_process and proc.name = cat
output: TEST_RULE_ALERT (command=%proc.cmdline pid=%proc.pid file=%fd.name user=%user.name user_loginuid=%user.loginuid…

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