Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform

Destinations

Destination resources are used to receive events and then forward them to other services. The settings of destinations are configured on two tabs: Basic settings and Advanced settings. The available settings depend on the selected type of destination.

Basic settings

  • Name (required)—a unique name for this type of resource. Must contain from 1 to 128 Unicode characters.
  • Tenant (required)—name of the tenant that owns the resource.
  • Disabled toggle switch—used if you do not need to send events to a destination. By default, sending events is enabled.
  • Type (required)—drop-down list for selecting the type of destination:
    • nats—used for NATS communications.
    • tcp—used for communications over TCP.
    • http—used for HTTP communications.
    • kafka—used for Kafka communications.
    • file—used for writing to a file.
    • storage—used to transmit data to the storage.
    • correlator—used to transmit data to the correlator.
  • URL (required)—URL where events should be sent. The port must be specified together with the URL. For example: hostname:port.

    You can specify multiple destination URLs using the URL button for all types except nats and file, if your KUMA license includes High Level Availability module.

    If you have selected storage or correlator as the destination type, the URL field can be populated automatically using the Copy service URL drop-down list that displays active services of the selected type.

  • Topic (required)—setting for the types of destinations: nats and kafka. The topic that data should be written to. The topic name must contain from 1 to 255 Unicode characters.
  • Description—up to 256 Unicode characters describing the resource.

Advanced settings

  • Compression is a drop-down list where you can enable Snappy compression. By default, compression is disabled.
  • Proxy is a drop-down list for proxy server resource selection.
  • Buffer size field is used to set buffer size (in bytes) for the destination resource. The default value is 1 MB, and the maximum value is 64 MB.
  • Timeout field is used to set the timeout (in seconds) for another service or component response. The default value is 30.
  • Disk buffer size limit field is used to specify the size of the disk buffer in bytes. The default size is 10 GB.
  • Storage ID is a NATS storage identifier.
    • TLS mode specifies whether TLS encryption is used:
      • Disabled (default)—do not use TLS encryption.
      • Enabled—use encryption without certificate verification.
      • With verification—use encryption with verification that the certificate was signed with the KUMA root certificate. The root certificate and key of KUMA are created automatically during program installation and are stored on the KUMA Core server in the folder /opt/kaspersky/kuma/core/certificates/.

      When using TLS, it is impossible to specify an IP address as a URL.

  • URL selection policy is a drop-down list in which you can select a method for determining which URL to send events to if several URLs have been specified:
    • Any
    • Prefer first
    • Round robin
  • Delimiter is used to specify the character delimiting the events. By default, \n is used.
  • Path—the file path if the file destination type is selected.
  • Flush interval sets the time (in seconds) between sending data to the destination resource. The default value is 100.
  • Workers—this field is used to set the number of services processing the queue. By default, this value is equal to the number of vCPUs of the KUMA Core server.
  • You can set health checks using the Health check path and Health check timeout fields. You can also disable health checks by selecting the Health Check Disabled check box.
  • Debug—a drop-down list where you can specify whether resource logging should be enabled. By default it is Disabled.
  • The Disk buffer disabled drop-down list is used to enable or disable the use of a disk buffer. By default, the disk buffer is disabled.
  • In the Filter section you can specify conditions to identify events that will be processed by the aggregation rule resource. You can select an existing filter resource from the drop-down list, or select Create new to create a new filter.

    Creating a filter in resources