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Summary

A three-part blog series on logging with OWASP CRS, with runnable companion stacks.

  • Part 1 (published): what ModSecurity and CRS log, how to read alerts and audit records, what to look for (false positives, what a higher paranoia level would block, attack categories, scanners, response leaks), and the settings to add before shipping logs anywhere.
  • Part 2 (draft): ModSecurity v3 on NGINX, with the JSON audit log flattened by Logstash into Elasticsearch, plus a Kibana dashboard.
  • Part 3 (draft): Coraza on Caddy, with Grafana Alloy shipping the logs to Loki, plus a Grafana dashboard.

Parts 2 and 3 are drafts, so they can be published one at a time.

What's in it

  • Example stacks in examples/crs-logging/. Both stacks run CRS 4.30.0 from the project's own images (owasp/modsecurity-crs and coraza-crs). A shared traffic generator fills the dashboards.
  • Page resources. Each post is a page bundle that lists the files it uses and offers a zip of all of them. The files live only in examples/, and module mounts in config/_default/hugo.yaml publish them into the bundles.
  • New shortcodes:
    • resources lists a bundle's files as downloads. It is ported from the Hugo Relearn theme, with MIT attribution in the file.
    • series-nav shows a box listing every part of the series.
    • series-link links to another part inline.
    • Both series shortcodes link a part only when it is in the build, so unpublished drafts show as "coming soon" instead of breaking links or ref.
  • CI. The test workflow runs examples/crs-logging/build-archives.py --check, which fails if a committed zip no longer matches the example files.

Findings worth a review

  • ModSecurity v3 never logs CRS rule 980170, the anomaly score report. libmodsecurity implements noauditlog by dropping the message. Part 1 adds a phase 5 summary rule (id 99901) that works on both engines.
  • ModSecurity v3 per-rule warnings only appear at NGINX info level.
  • The ModSecurity container's REAL_IP_* variables act too late. They configure the realip module at location level, after the ModSecurity connector has read the client address. The examples use an http-level snippet instead.
  • Coraza's RelevantOnly only looks at the response status. Requests that scored but were not blocked never reach the audit log. Part 3 adds a phase 5 ctl:auditEngine=On rule to fix this.

Before merging

  • Set Part 1's date to the actual publish day. It is currently 2026-11-03, and production builds skip future-dated posts.

Testing

  • Both stacks run end to end. The traffic generator's output reaches Elasticsearch and Loki. Every log line was accounted for, and the dashboards render.
  • The Part 3 zip works on its own. Unzipped, its stack runs as is.
  • Hugo builds pass with and without drafts. There are no errors or warnings. Without drafts, Part 1 does not link to Parts 2 and 3, and the series box shows them as "coming soon".

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  • New Features
    • Added a three-part guide to understanding OWASP CRS logs and exploring logging setups with Elastic Stack or Grafana and Loki.
    • Added series navigation to help readers move between articles, including links to upcoming parts.
    • Added downloadable companion resources, including Docker Compose lab setups, dashboards, configuration examples, and traffic-generation instructions. Resource links display file sizes and can appear in a collapsible box.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, dashboard, configuration, and usage guidance for the logging examples.

fzipi and others added 3 commits October 23, 2026 13:59
- resources: lists a page bundle's files as downloads, filtered by a
  regular expression, with sizes. Ported from the Hugo Relearn theme
  (MIT, attribution in the file) and simplified for this site.
- series-nav: box listing every part of a blog series, driven by
  data/series/<name>.yaml. Published parts are linked, unpublished ones
  (drafts, future dates) are shown as "coming soon".
- series-link: inline link to another part of a series that falls back
  to plain text while the target is not published, so a series can be
  released one part at a time without broken links or ref errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runnable Docker Compose labs for the "Logging with OWASP CRS" posts:

- elk/: ModSecurity v3 on NGINX (owasp/modsecurity-crs) with Logstash,
  Elasticsearch and Kibana, a Ruby filter that flattens the JSON audit
  log, an index template and a generated Kibana dashboard.
- grafana-loki/: Coraza on Caddy (coraza-crs) with Grafana Alloy, Loki
  and a provisioned Grafana dashboard, plus a Caddyfile and an audit
  relevance rule for Coraza's RelevantOnly behaviour.
- waf/: a phase 5 anomaly score summary rule (CRS's own 980170 is never
  logged on ModSecurity v3) and an http-level realip snippet.
- generate-traffic.sh: legitimate and malicious requests to fill the
  dashboards. build-archives.py: builds the per-post zip downloads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three posts as page bundles:

- Part 1: what ModSecurity and CRS log, how to read it, what to look
  for, and the settings and summary rule to add before shipping logs.
- Part 2 (draft): ModSecurity logs on the Elastic Stack.
- Part 3 (draft): Coraza logs on Grafana and Loki.

Each post attaches the example files it uses (mounted from
examples/crs-logging via module mounts in config/_default/hugo.yaml)
and a zip of all of them. CI checks that the committed zips match the
example files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Adds a three-part OWASP CRS logging series with ModSecurity and Coraza lab stacks. The changes include Hugo series and download features, archive generation, Elastic Stack audit-log processing and dashboards, and Grafana Loki log pipelines and dashboards.

Changes: OWASP CRS Logging Series

Layer / File(s) Summary
Series publishing and archives
data/series/*, layouts/_shortcodes/*, assets/scss/shortcodes/*, assets/scss/styles.scss, config/_default/hugo.yaml, examples/crs-logging/build-archives.py, .github/workflows/test.yml, examples/crs-logging/README.md
Adds series navigation and resource-download shortcodes, page resource mounts, styles, archive generation and freshness checks, and lab documentation.
Log interpretation and ModSecurity examples
content/blog/2026-11-03-crs-logging-part-1-what-your-waf-is-telling-you/index.md, examples/crs-logging/waf/*, examples/crs-logging/generate-traffic.sh
Adds guidance for interpreting WAF logs and anomaly scores. The example rule logs a CRS summary when the detection anomaly score is greater than zero. The examples also configure trusted client IP handling and generate sample requests.
ModSecurity and Elastic Stack
content/blog/2026-11-10-crs-logging-part-2-elastic-stack/index.md, examples/crs-logging/elk/*
Adds a Compose lab with ModSecurity, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. Logstash parses and flattens audit transactions for daily indices, and Kibana dashboards display transaction and CRS data.
Coraza and Grafana Loki
content/blog/2026-11-17-crs-logging-part-3-grafana-loki/index.md, examples/crs-logging/grafana-loki/*
Adds a Coraza/Caddy lab. Alloy sends separate alert and audit streams to Loki, and Grafana is provisioned with dashboards for logs, requests, and CRS scores.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested labels: release:ignore

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2dac2

The dashboard download is up to date, but Part 1 will be absent from production builds if published before November 3. The previously identified logging and client-address risks also remain open. Resolve or explicitly accept these risks before merging.

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Owasp Security (Web, Api & Llm) Warning ⚠️ WARNING: The previous security findings remain in this PR. The README documents setting BIND_ADDR for LAN or Tailscale access (examples/crs-logging/README.md:42-49), while Elasticsearch disables … Keep the services loopback-only by default and remove the remote-binding recipe, or require authentication and TLS before remote access. Disable anonymous Grafana Admin access, enable authentication for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Loki, and …
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Secrets, Payloads & Pii In Logs Warning ⚠️ WARNING: The added companion stacks send raw request data and identifiers to shared log stores. examples/crs-logging/elk/compose.yaml:34-37 and `examples/crs-logging/grafana-loki/compose.yaml:31-… Use an explicit safe-field allowlist before Elasticsearch or Loki. Set audit parts to exclude request bodies and sensitive headers, or sanitize the audit record before either sink. Remove or redact Authorization, Cookie, arbitrary heade…
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Keep the services loopback-only by default and remove the remote-binding recipe, or require authentication and TLS before remote access. Disable anonymous Grafana Admin access, enable authentication for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Loki, and do not publish the Alloy debug UI. Exclude request bodies and sensitive headers by default, redact credentials and cookies before storage, and use only non-secret synthetic values. Restrict trusted proxy CIDRs to explicit load balancers and isolate fake client headers to the lab generator. Pin every image to a verified immutable digest and record signature or provenance verification.

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Resolution

Replace all 11 image references with immutable image@sha256:&lt;digest&gt; references. Verify each digest for the intended image tag. Keep the human-readable versions in comments.

Full details: Secrets, Payloads & Pii In Logs

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⚠️ WARNING: The added companion stacks send raw request data and identifiers to shared log stores. examples/crs-logging/elk/compose.yaml:34-37 and examples/crs-logging/grafana-loki/compose.yaml:31-34 enable audit parts ABIJFHZ, explicitly including request headers and bodies. modsec_flatten.rb:35-40,54-66,93-96,121-126,158-160 preserves the original transaction and removes only the response body; modsec-audit.conf:44-53 indexes that event in Elasticsearch, while modsec-audit.json:121-144 maps transaction.request.body and transaction.request.headers. The same path stores raw rule data and messages. The Alloy alert pipeline replaces the line with the raw Coraza alert at config.alloy:55-59 and forwards raw msg, data, query-bearing uri, and full client_ip as structured metadata at config.alloy:142-165. Its audit pipeline reads the full JSON audit line and has no output or redaction stage before forwarding it to Loki at config.alloy:184-223. The traffic generator also sends a password in a request body at generate-traffic.sh:60-61, demonstrating that sensitive request content reaches these logs. The committed archives include the unsafe compose and Alloy configurations.

Resolution

Use an explicit safe-field allowlist before Elasticsearch or Loki. Set audit parts to exclude request bodies and sensitive headers, or sanitize the audit record before either sink. Remove or redact Authorization, Cookie, arbitrary headers, raw query strings, request bodies, rule data, and raw alert messages. Hash or partially mask client IP addresses if correlation is required. Make the Alloy audit pipeline replace the original line with only sanitized fields. Remove the original transaction object from the Logstash event after extracting safe fields. Rebuild all affected ZIP archives.

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examples/crs-logging/elk/logstash/scripts/modsec_flatten.rb: 1

158-160: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Redact credential headers before indexing.

The script removes transaction.response.body because it "does not belong in a log index". The script keeps transaction.request.headers and transaction.response.headers unchanged. The template maps both as flattened, so they are searchable. The audit parts ABIJFHZ include the B and F parts. Authorization, Cookie and Set-Cookie values therefore reach Elasticsearch. Kibana and Elasticsearch run with security disabled. Anyone who copies this pipeline to a real WAF indexes live session tokens. The matched payload in modsec.rule.data and modsec.matches[].data carries the same risk, so mention it in the post.

Redact the sensitive header values in the script. Add a short note to the post.

🛡️ Proposed fix
+SENSITIVE_HEADERS = %w[authorization proxy-authorization cookie set-cookie x-api-key].freeze
+
@@
+  %w[request response].each do |side|
+    h = event.get("[transaction][#{side}][headers]")
+    next unless h.is_a?(Hash)
+    h.keys.each { |k| h[k] = "[REDACTED]" if SENSITIVE_HEADERS.include?(k.to_s.downcase) }
+    event.set("[transaction][#{side}][headers]", h)
+  end
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   # The response body is either the block page or the backend's answer.
   # Neither belongs in a log index.
   event.remove("[transaction][response][body]")
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Review comment at @examples/crs-logging/elk/logstash/scripts/modsec_flatten.rb
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Before the response-body removal in the event-processing flow, redact sensitive
values in both transaction request and response headers, including
authorization, cookie, and API-key headers, while preserving other headers. Also
add a brief note to the accompanying post that matched rule payloads may contain
sensitive data.
examples/crs-logging/waf/nginx-realip.conf: 1

18-22: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep non-local lab exposure on a controlled network.

The broad ranges are required for the synthetic X-Forwarded-For values used by the dashboards. The default bindings are localhost-only. If BIND_ADDR exposes the WAF on a LAN or Tailscale network, a reachable client in a trusted range can spoof the logged client address. This affects log attribution, not request authorization. Do not use this lab trust list in production; configure only controlled load balancer addresses, as documented.

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Keep the broad `set_real_ip_from` ranges in the lab configuration for synthetic
dashboard addresses, but ensure non-local `BIND_ADDR` exposure is limited to a
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@content/blog/2026-11-03-crs-logging-part-1-what-your-waf-is-telling-you/index.md:
- Line 5: Update the frontmatter date for Part 1 to its actual publication day
before merging so it is not treated as a future post in production builds; if
changing the date changes the bundle name, update any date-derived bundle
references accordingly.

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- Line 1097: Update panel 51’s description in the dashboard to identify the
entry as a Coraza audit log rather than a ModSecurity audit log, preserving the
rest of the description.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @examples/crs-logging/elk/logstash/scripts/modsec_flatten.rb:
- Around line 158-160: Before the response-body removal in the event-processing
flow, redact sensitive values in both transaction request and response headers,
including authorization, cookie, and API-key headers, while preserving other
headers. Also add a brief note to the accompanying post that matched rule
payloads may contain sensitive data.

Review comments at @examples/crs-logging/waf/nginx-realip.conf:
- Around line 18-22: Keep the broad `set_real_ip_from` ranges in the lab
configuration for synthetic dashboard addresses, but ensure non-local
`BIND_ADDR` exposure is limited to a controlled network and document that this
trust list is not suitable for production; production deployments should trust
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Set Part 1’s date to its actual publication day.

If this merges before November 3, 2026, the future date keeps Part 1 out of production builds. Set the publication date before merging; update date-derived bundle references if the bundle name changes. The PR objective explicitly requires this change.

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Comment thread examples/crs-logging/grafana-loki/grafana/dashboards/crs-overview.json Outdated
The "Transactions (JSON audit log)" panel still said "ModSecurity audit
log entry", left over from before the Grafana stack moved to Coraza.
Rebuilt the Part 3 archive, which includes the dashboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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