Format

Profile configuration example

/etc/crowdsec/profiles.yaml

name: default_ip_remediation
#debug: true
filters:
 - Alert.Remediation == true && Alert.GetScope() == "Ip"
decisions:
 - type: ban
   duration: 4h
#duration_expr: "Sprintf('%dh', (GetDecisionsCount(Alert.GetValue()) + 1) * 4)"
notifications:
  - slack_default  # Set the webhook in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/slack.yaml before enabling this.
on_success: break

---
name: another_profile
...

Profile directives

name

name: foobar

A label for the profile (used in logging)

debug

debug: true

A boolean flag that provides contextual debug.

filters

filters:
 - Alert.Remediation == true && Alert.GetScope() == "Session"
 - Alert.Remediation == true && Alert.GetScope() == "Ip"

If any filter of the list returns true, the profile is eligible and the decisions will be applied (note: filter can use expr helpers).

The filter allows you to then create custom decisions for some specific scenarios for example:

name: specific_remediation
#debug: true
filters:
 - Alert.Remediation == true && Alert.GetScope() == "Ip" && Alert.GetScenario() in ["crowdsecurity/ssh-bf", "crowdsecurity/ssh-user-enum"]
decisions:
 - type: ban
   duration: 8h
notifications:
  - slack_default  # Set the webhook in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/slack.yaml before enabling this.
on_success: break
---
...

This allows you as well to setup various notifications or profiles depending on the scope :

name: notif_only
#debug: true
filters:
 - Alert.GetScope() == "Country"
notifications:
  - slack_default  # Set the webhook in /etc/crowdsec/notifications/slack.yaml before enabling this.
on_success: break
---
...

decisions

decisions:
 - type: captcha
   duration: 1h
   scope: custom_app1_captcha
 - type: ban
   duration: 2h

If the profile applies, decisions objects will be created for each of the sources that triggered the scenario.

It is a list of models.Decision objects. The following fields, when present, allows to alter the resulting decision :

• scope : defines the scope of the resulting decision
• duration : defines for how long will the decision be valid. The format must comply with golang's ParseDuration
• type : defines the type of the remediation that will be applied by available bouncers, for example ban, captcha
• value : define a hardcoded value for the decision (ie. 1.2.3.4)

duration_expr

duration_expr: "Sprintf('%dh', (GetDecisionsCount(Alert.GetValue()) + 1) * 4)"

If the profile applies, and the duration_expr generates a valid golang's duration, it will replace the decision duration.

It can be used to have custom duration. For example, you can have an increased duration every time an attacker comes back. It relies on expr helpers.

on_success

on_success: continue|break

If the profile applies and on_success is set to break, decisions processing will stop here and it won't evaluate against following profiles.

• continue will apply the profile even if the filter expression generates an error. (DEFAULT)
• break will stop the processing of the alert if the filter expression generates an error.

on_failure

on_failure: continue|break

If the profile didn't apply and on_failure is set to break, decisions processing will stop here and it won't evaluate against following profiles.

• continue will continue to the next profile if the filter expression generates an error. (DEFAULT)
• break will stop the processing of the alert if the filter expression generates an error.

on_error

on_error: continue|break|apply|ignore

If the filter expression generates an error, this would normally stop the alert from being processed to prevent a potential unwanted outcome.

• break will stop the processing of the alert if the filter expression generates an error. (DEFAULT)
• continue will continue to the next profile if the filter expression generates an error.
• apply will apply the profile even if the filter expression generates an error.
• ignore will ignore the error and continue to the next profile.

However, there may be some expressions that do generate expected errors for example, when using the CTI helpers it may throw a rate limit error.

notifications

notifications:
  - notification_plugin1
  - notification_plugin2

The list of notification plugins to which the alert should be fed.