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Add the ability to drop events at the falco engine level in a way that can scale with the dropping that already occurs at the kernel/inspector level. New inline function should_drop_evt() controls whether or not events are matched against the set of rules, and is controlled by two values--sampling ratio and sampling multiplier. Here's how the sampling ratio and multiplier influence whether or not an event is dropped in should_drop_evt(). The intent is that m_sampling_ratio is generally changing external to the engine e.g. in the main inspector class based on how busy the inspector is. A sampling ratio implies no dropping. Values > 1 imply increasing levels of dropping. External to the engine, the sampling ratio results in events being dropped at the kernel/inspector interface. The sampling multiplier is an amplification to the sampling factor in m_sampling_ratio. If 0, no additional events are dropped other than those that might be dropped by the kernel/inspector interface. If 1, events that make it past the kernel module are subject to an additional level of dropping at the falco engine, scaling with the sampling ratio in m_sampling_ratio. Unlike the dropping that occurs at the kernel level, where the events in the first part of each second are dropped, this dropping is random.
Sysdig Falco
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Overview
Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitor designed to detect anomalous activity in your applications. Powered by sysdig’s system call capture infrastructure, falco lets you continuously monitor and detect container, application, host, and network activity... all in one place, from one source of data, with one set of rules.
What kind of behaviors can Falco detect?
Falco can detect and alert on any behavior that involves making Linux system calls. Thanks to Sysdig's core decoding and state tracking functionality, falco alerts can be triggered by the use of specific system calls, their arguments, and by properties of the calling process. For example, you can easily detect things like:
- A shell is run inside a container
- A server process spawns a child process of an unexpected type
- Unexpected read of a sensitive file (like
/etc/shadow) - A non-device file is written to
/dev - A standard system binary (like
ls) makes an outbound network connection
Documentation
[Visit the wiki] (https://github.com/draios/falco/wiki) for full documentation on falco.
Join the Community
- Contact the [official mailing list] (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/falco) for support and to talk with other users.
- Follow us on [Twitter] (https://twitter.com/sysdig) for general falco and sysdig news.
- This is our [blog] (https://sysdig.com/blog/), where you can find the latest falco posts.
- Join our Public Slack channel for sysdig and falco announcements and discussions.
License Terms
Falco is licensed to you under the GPL 2.0 open source license.
Contributor License Agreements
###Background As we did for sysdig, we are formalizing the way that we accept contributions of code from the contributing community. We must now ask that contributions to falco be provided subject to the terms and conditions of a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The CLA comes in two forms, applicable to contributions by individuals, or by legal entities such as corporations and their employees. We recognize that entering into a CLA with us involves real consideration on your part, and we’ve tried to make this process as clear and simple as possible.
We’ve modeled our CLA off of industry standards, such as the CLA used by Kubernetes. Note that this agreement is not a transfer of copyright ownership, this simply is a license agreement for contributions, intended to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity. It is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of falco; it does not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose.
For some background on why contributor license agreements are necessary, you can read FAQs from many other open source projects:
- Django’s excellent CLA FAQ
- A well-written chapter from Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software on CLAs
- The Wikipedia article on CLAs
As always, we are grateful for your past and present contributions to falco.
###What do I need to do in order to contribute code?
Individual contributions: Individuals who wish to make contributions must review the Individual Contributor License Agreement and indicate agreement by adding the following line to every GIT commit message:
falco-CLA-1.0-signed-off-by: Joe Smith joe.smith@email.com
Use your real name; pseudonyms or anonymous contributions are not allowed.
Corporate contributions: Employees of corporations, members of LLCs or LLPs, or others acting on behalf of a contributing entity, must review the Corporate Contributor License Agreement, must be an authorized representative of the contributing entity, and indicate agreement to it on behalf of the contributing entity by adding the following lines to every GIT commit message:
falco-CLA-1.0-contributing-entity: Full Legal Name of Entity
falco-CLA-1.0-signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>
Use a real name of a natural person who is an authorized representative of the contributing entity; pseudonyms or anonymous contributions are not allowed.