configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring

configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 91 tokens per session (3,962 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide to deploying Suricata, a network security tool that detects or blocks suspicious traffic, as an intrusion detection or prevention system. It covers traffic inspection, detection rules, structured logs, and SIEM integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect HTTP, TLS, DNS, and SMB traffic, manage Emerging Threats or Snort rules, extract files, and send EVE JSON logs to tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Splunk.
Why use it?
It helps security teams monitor network traffic and turn detected activity into searchable security records. Inline prevention can also block selected malicious traffic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect HTTP, TLS, DNS, and SMB traffic, manage Emerging Threats or Snort rules, extract files, and send EVE JSON logs to tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Splunk.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,962 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.03962
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01981
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00396

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1fbbfe83f93d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oisf/suricata-stable

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl http://testmynids.org/uid/index.html
cyber-security/ctf/configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring/SKILL.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Suricata for Network Monitoring

When to Use

  • Deploying a high-performance IDS/IPS capable of multi-threaded packet processing for 10+ Gbps network links
  • Monitoring network traffic with protocol-aware inspection for HTTP, TLS, DNS, SMB, and other protocols
  • Generating structured EVE JSON logs for direct SIEM ingestion without custom parsers
  • Running in inline (IPS) mode to actively block malicious traffic at network choke points
  • Combining signature-based detection with protocol anomaly detection and file extraction

Do not use as a standalone security solution without complementary controls, for encrypted traffic inspection without TLS decryption capabilities, or on systems with insufficient CPU/memory for the expected traffic volume.

Prerequisites

  • Suricata 7.0+ installed from PPA or source (suricata --build-info)
  • Network interface on a span port, tap, or inline bridge for traffic capture
  • AF_PACKET or DPDK support for high-performance packet capture
  • Emerging Threats Open or Pro ruleset subscription (or Snort Talos rules via oinkcode)
  • suricata-update tool for automated rule management
  • Elasticsearch/Kibana or Splunk for log analysis and visualization

Workflow

Step 1: Install Suricata and Dependencies

# Install from PPA (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oisf/suricata-stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y suricata suricata-update jq

# Verify installation
suricata --build-info | grep -E "Version|AF_PACKET|NFQueue"

# Or install from source for latest features
sudo apt install -y libpcre2-dev build-essential autoconf automake libtool \
  libpcap-dev libnet1-dev libyaml-dev libjansson-dev libcap-ng-dev \
  libmagic-dev libnetfilter-queue-dev libhiredis-dev rustc cargo cbindgen
git clone https://github.com/OISF/suricata.git
cd suricata && git clone https://github.com/OISF/libhtp.git -b 0.5.x
./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
  --enable-nfqueue --enable-af-packet
make -j$(nproc) && sudo make install install-conf

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 410 lines · 91 tokens per session scan B 1fbbfe83f93d

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configuring-suricata-for-network-monitoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,962 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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