Plugins

Note: The plugin system is a new feature introduced since Falco 0.31.0. You can find more detail in the original proposal document.

This repository contains the Plugin Registry and the plugins officially maintained by the Falcosecurity organization. Plugins can be used to extend Falco and of applications using Falcosecurity libs. Please refer to the official documentation to better understand the plugin system's concepts and architecture.

Plugin Registry

The Registry contains metadata and information about every plugin known and recognized by the Falcosecurity organization. It lists plugins hosted either in this repository or in other repositories. These plugins are developed for Falco and made available to the community. Check out the sections below to know how to register your plugins and see plugins currently contained in the registry.

Registering a new Plugin

Registering your plugin inside the registry helps ensure that some technical constraints are respected, such as that a given ID is used by exactly one plugin with event source capability and allows plugin authors to coordinate about event source formats. Moreover, this is a great way to share your plugin project with the community and engage with it, thus gaining new users and increasing its visibility. We encourage you to register your plugin in this registry before publishing it. You can add your plugins in this registry regardless of where its source code is hosted (there's a url field for this specifically).

The registration process involves adding an entry about your plugin inside the registry.yaml file by creating a Pull Request in this repository. Please be mindful of a few constraints that are automatically checked and required for your plugin to be accepted:

The name field is mandatory and must be unique across all the plugins in the registry
(Sourcing Capability Only) The id field is mandatory and must be unique in the registry across all the plugins with event source capability
The plugin name must match this regular expression: ^[a-z]+[a-z0-9-_\-]*$ (however, its not reccomended to use _ in the name, unless you are trying to match the name of a source or for particular reasons)
The source (Sourcing Capability Only) and sources (Extraction Capability Only) must match this regular expression: ^[a-z]+[a-z0-9_]*$
The url field should point to the plugin source code
The rules_url field should point to the default ruleset, if any

For reference, here's an example of an entry for a plugin with both event sourcing and field extraction capabilities:

- name: k8saudit
  description: ...
  authors: ...
  contact: ...
  maintainers:
    - name: The Falco Authors
      email: cncf-falco-dev@lists.cncf.io
  keywords:
    - audit
    - audit-log
    - audit-events
    - kubernetes
    url: https://github.com/falcosecurity/plugins/tree/master/plugins/k8saudit
    rules_url: https://github.com/falcosecurity/plugins/tree/master/plugins/k8saudit/rules
  url: ...
  license: ...
  capabilities:
    sourcing:
      supported: true
      id: 2
      source: k8s_audit
    extraction:
      supported: true

You can find the full registry specification here: (coming soon...)

Registered Plugins

The tables below list all the plugins currently registered. The tables are automatically generated from the registry.yaml file.

Name	Capabilities	Description
k8saudit	Event Sourcing ID: 1 `k8s_audit` Field Extraction `k8s_audit`	Read Kubernetes Audit Events and monitor Kubernetes Clusters Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
cloudtrail	Event Sourcing ID: 2 `aws_cloudtrail` Field Extraction `aws_cloudtrail`	Reads Cloudtrail JSON logs from files/S3 and injects as events Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
json	Field Extraction All Sources	Extract values from any JSON payload Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
dummy	Event Sourcing ID: 3 `dummy` Field Extraction `dummy`	Reference plugin used to document interface Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
dummy_c	Event Sourcing ID: 4 `dummy_c` Field Extraction `dummy_c`	Like dummy, but written in C++ Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
docker	Event Sourcing ID: 5 `docker` Field Extraction `docker`	Docker Events Authors: Thomas Labarussias License: Apache-2.0
seccompagent	Event Sourcing ID: 6 `seccompagent` Field Extraction `seccompagent`	Seccomp Agent Events Authors: Alban Crequy License: Apache-2.0
okta	Event Sourcing ID: 7 `okta` Field Extraction `okta`	Okta Log Events Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
github	Event Sourcing ID: 8 `github` Field Extraction `github`	Github Webhook Events Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
k8saudit-eks	Event Sourcing ID: 9 `k8s_audit` Field Extraction `k8s_audit`	Read Kubernetes Audit Events from AWS EKS Clusters Authors: The Falco Authors License: Apache-2.0
nomad	Event Sourcing ID: 10 `nomad` Field Extraction `nomad`	Read Hashicorp Nomad Events Stream Authors: Alberto Llamas License: Apache-2.0
test	Event Sourcing ID: 999 `test`	This ID is reserved for source plugin development. Any plugin author can use this ID, but authors can expect events from other developers with this ID. After development is complete, the author should request an actual ID Authors: N/A License: N/A

Hosted Plugins

Another purpose of this repository is to host and maintain the plugins owned by the Falcosecurity organization. Each plugin is a standalone project and has its own directory, and they are all inside the plugins folder.

The master branch contains the most up-to-date state of development, and each plugin is regularly released. Please check our Release Process to know how plugins are released and how artifacts are distributed. Dev builds are published each time a Pull Request gets merged into master, whereas stable builds are released and published only when a new release gets tagged. You can find the published artifacts at https://download.falco.org/?prefix=plugins.

If you wish to contribute your plugin to the Falcosecurity organization, you just need to open a Pull Request to add it inside the plugins folder and to add it inside the registry. In order to be hosted in this repository, plugins must be licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Contributing

If you want to help and wish to contribute, please review our contribution guidelines. Code contributions are always encouraged and welcome!

License

This project is licensed to you under the Apache 2.0 Open Source License.