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Does Cribl provide functionality to compute a network flow hash?

  • March 11, 2025
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Hey, sorry for all the messages asks but curious here:Does Cribl provide functionality to compute a network flow hash according to the Community ID Flow Hash specification for given fields and provide the output to a new field? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/community-id.html

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Jon Rust
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  • March 11, 2025

This is not a built-in function. Possibly(?) you could accomplish it in a Code function. Would depend heavily on if you could do it with base Typescript (JS) functions, or require external libraries (not good)


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  • March 11, 2025

<@ULBGHDPNY&gt; Any potential for this to be included in future releases of Cribl? This seems to be a common function that would be really useful for customers


Jon Rust
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From what i can gather (1st time ever running across it), it seems like a pretty simple function. A Code function would not be required. Assuming you have `srcIp`, `dstIp`, `proto`, `srcPort`, `dstPort` and a seed value, very straightforward to do this with Eval:`cidfh` => `C.Mask.sha1(seed + srcIp + dstIp + proto + 0 + srcPort + dstPort,16)`