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Title: Firewall > Logs Files > Live View ---- But for historical stored logs?
Post by: foss-johnny on August 09, 2025, 02:57:22 AM
Hi OPNsense community!

The Live Log view (Firewall > Logs Files > Live View) is great! It allows you to filter easily and find what traffic is passing through the firewall easily.

I'm wondering if there is a similar view that can be used to filter the firewalls historical logs (syslogs)?

Any advice would be great!

Thanks!

Title: Re: Firewall > Logs Files > Live View ---- But for historical stored logs?
Post by: pfry on August 09, 2025, 05:55:45 PM
I think you're stuck with an external log parser for that.

Heck, even searching "Firewall: Log Files: Plain View" spikes a core for long periods - but oddly doesn't seem to exercise the SSD. OPNsense logging could use a lot of work, but unfortunately it would really have to start with pf. Lots of time/money in that endeavor.
Title: Re: Firewall > Logs Files > Live View ---- But for historical stored logs?
Post by: franco on August 12, 2025, 01:05:01 PM
The idea has been there for a while now but lack of time has been a constant road block for this and other nice-to-have features.

Business interest doesn't seem to play a role here either.


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: Firewall > Logs Files > Live View ---- But for historical stored logs?
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on August 12, 2025, 01:29:53 PM
As for traffic visibility I can highly recommend ElastiFlow. That might fit part of your requirements.
Title: Re: Firewall > Logs Files > Live View ---- But for historical stored logs?
Post by: Seimus on August 12, 2025, 03:14:19 PM
Or you can just sent them to Pfelk or just a simple syslog server.

OPNsense can do that, you will not have such a "nice" "eye candy" representation but the sessions can be sent via syslog to a collector.

Regards,
S.