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1. Describe your incident:
Looking for best practice in regards to getting started with graylog, is there a process flow of what I should be doing? I am getting confused after I have my input setup and i am getting confused reading the online docs.

I have my input setup and logs are coming in, so far I have setup an indices, pipeline, stream and some rules but Im not sure I understand how they all work together. I watched a few youtube video that stated to use pipelines and don’t use extractors.

Is there a simple tutorial I can use to understand the data flow and what I need to setup?

At a high level, im just looking to see my blocked trafffic. thanks.

2. Describe your environment:

  • OS Information:
    ubuntu 24

  • Package Version:
    6.2

  • Service logs, configurations, and environment variables:
    n/a

3. What steps have you already taken to try and solve the problem?
I have watched and read everything under the sun to try to understand how it all works. I think I’m getting lost in the detail.

4. How can the community help?
Any direction, pointers or best practice would be great!

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