[auditbeat] New ETW backend for FIM#45887
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Approving the changes in the files that belong to the data-plane.
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Nice addition. There's a lot here to review. I think this needs another reviewer.
Can you ensure that buildkits run the auditbeat tests on Windows with RACE_DETECTOR=true set in the environment.
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LGTM, mostly focused on the part related with the ETW interface.
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Co-authored-by: Andrew Kroh <andrew.kroh@elastic.co>
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Approving to unblock, but I left the tiniest suggestion below. I believe you will also need to rerun make update and commit any changes to get check-docs to pass.
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Proposed commit message
Introduces a new backend for File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) on Windows, built on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW).
Motivation
Implementation Details
ETW Consumer: A new consumer subscribes to the
Kernel-FileIoETW provider to receive a raw stream of file system activity events.Event Correlator: Raw ETW events are extremely granular (e.g., a simple file modification can generate
fileCreate,fileWrite,fileSetInformation, andfileCloseevents). The correlator:created,updated,deleted,moved, etc.).Rich Metadata Collection: The implementation collects rich metadata for each event, including:
Testing
Added a test to generate samples for both Windows backends for the sake of comparison. This tests can't be enabled to run on CI since their output may vary due to system load, etw buffer flushing, etc. but is still useful for reference and to see how both implementations behave.
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