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Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Session Logs

Overview

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. In this documentation, you will learn how to collect and send Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Session Logs to Sekoia.io.

  • Vendor: Cloudflare
  • Supported environment: SaaS
  • Detection based on: Telemetry
  • Supported application or feature: Network protocol analysis, Netflow/Enclave netflow, SSL/TLS inspection, Web proxy

Configuration

Create the intake on Sekoia.io

Go to the intake page and create a new intake from the format Cloudflare.

Configure events forwarding on Cloudflare

Retrieve necessary information

First, you will have to retrieve configuration information. Connect to Cloudflare Console to collect the following :

  1. Cloudflare API Token

    • Go to My Profile, then on the left panel, click on API Tokens.
    • Click on the Create Token button and select the Create Custom Token entry.
    • Give a name to your token and set the following permissions:
    Scope Group Level
    Account Account Analytics Read
    Account Logs Read
    Account Logs Edit
    Zone Logs Read
    Zone Logs Edit
    • If you want zerotrust logs you should also add:
    Scope Group Level
    Account Zero Trust Read

    see the Cloudflare documentation

  2. Cloudflare Zone ID :

    • This information is specific to a Website.
    • On the left panel, click on Websites and select the Website you want.
    • On the right panel, there is an API section where you can retrieve the Zone ID.

Create a Logpush job

Configure a Logpush job with the following destination:

https://intake.sekoia.io/plain/batch?header_X-SEKOIAIO-INTAKE-KEY=<YOUR_INTAKE_KEY>

Warning

The previous URL works for the FRA1 region. For any other region, replace the domain "intake.sekoia.io" with your region's HTTP-intake domain, for example:

https://app.usa1.sekoia.io/api/v1/intake-http

You can find your region's domain here: https://docs.sekoia.com/getting_started/regions/

To do so, you can manage Logpush with cURL:

$ curl -X POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID>/logpush/jobs' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN>' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "dataset": "zero_trust_network_sessions",
    "enabled": true,
    "max_upload_bytes": 5000000,
    "max_upload_records": 1000,
    "logpull_options":"fields=AccountID,BytesReceived,BytesSent,ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs,ClientTLSCipher,ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs,ClientTLSVersion,ConnectionCloseReason,ConnectionReuse,DestinationTunnelID,DetectedProtocol,DeviceID,DeviceName,EgressColoName,EgressIP,EgressPort,EgressRuleID,EgressRuleName,Email,IngressColoName,InitialOriginIP,Offramp,OriginIP,OriginPort,OriginTLSCertificateIssuer,OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult,OriginTLSCipher,OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs,OriginTLSVersion,Protocol,RegistrationID,ResolvedFQDN,RuleEvaluationDurationMs,SessionEndTime,SessionID,SessionStartTime,SourceIP,SourceInternalIP,SourcePort,UserID,VirtualNetworkID&timestamps=rfc3339",
    "destination_conf": "https://intake.sekoia.io/plain/batch?header_X-SEKOIAIO-INTAKE-KEY=<YOUR_INTAKE_KEY>"
    }' # (1)
  1. will return
    {
      "errors": [],
      "messages": [],
      "result": {
        "id": "<ID>",
        "dataset": "zero_trust_network_sessions",
        "frequency": "high",
        "kind": "",
        "max_upload_bytes": 5000000,
        "max_upload_records": 1000,
        "enabled": true,
        "name": "<DOMAIN_NAME>",
        "logpull_options": "fields=<LIST_OF_FIELDS>",
        "destination_conf": "https://intake.sekoia.io/plain/batch?header_X-SEKOIAIO-INTAKE-KEY=<YOUR_INTAKE_KEY>",
        "last_complete": null,
        "last_error": null,
        "error_message": null,
        "time_created": "<TIMESTAMP>"
      },
      "success": true
    }
    

Important

Replace:

  • <YOUR_INTAKE_KEY> with the Intake key you generated in the Create the intake on Sekoia.io step.
  • <CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID> with the ACCOUNT_ID found on the overview page
  • <CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN> with the API Token you generated
Useful Cloudflare API endpoints

On their documentation, Cloudflare provides a list API endpoints you can use. Find below some useful endpoints:

  • https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/logpush/jobs/<JOB_ID> to verify the job you previously created is correct (you need to specify the JOB_ID)
  • https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/logpush/datasets/<DATASET>/jobs to get all the jobs for a specific dataset (dns_log, firewalls_events or http_requests in our case)
  • https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/logpush/jobs/<JOB_ID> to update a job if you noticed a mistake after the creation of the job (wrong fields, wrong SEKOIA API Key...)

Raw Events Samples

In this section, you will find examples of raw logs as generated natively by the source. These examples are provided to help integrators understand the data format before ingestion into Sekoia.io. It is crucial for setting up the correct parsing stages and ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

{
    "AccountID": "00000000000000000000000000000000",
    "BytesReceived": 120,
    "BytesSent": 80,
    "ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs": 10,
    "ClientTLSCipher": "",
    "ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 0,
    "ClientTLSVersion": "none",
    "ConnectionCloseReason": "CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT",
    "ConnectionReuse": false,
    "DestinationTunnelID": "",
    "DetectedProtocol": "dns",
    "DeviceID": "",
    "DeviceName": "",
    "EgressColoName": "AMS",
    "EgressIP": "192.0.2.6",
    "EgressPort": 53,
    "EgressRuleID": "",
    "EgressRuleName": "",
    "Email": "",
    "IngressColoName": "AMS",
    "InitialOriginIP": "0.0.0.0",
    "Offramp": "INTERNET",
    "OriginIP": "198.51.100.70",
    "OriginPort": 53,
    "OriginTLSCertificateIssuer": "",
    "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "NONE",
    "OriginTLSCipher": "",
    "OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 0,
    "OriginTLSVersion": "none",
    "Protocol": "UDP",
    "RegistrationID": "",
    "ResolvedFQDN": "",
    "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 1,
    "SessionEndTime": "2026-02-11T03:05:12Z",
    "SessionID": "def456abc123def456abc123def4560",
    "SessionStartTime": "2026-02-11T03:04:00Z",
    "SourceIP": "203.0.113.20",
    "SourceInternalIP": "",
    "SourcePort": 40100,
    "UserID": "",
    "VirtualNetworkID": ""
}
{
    "AccountID": "00000000000000000000000000000000",
    "BytesReceived": 28718,
    "BytesSent": 16278,
    "ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs": 29,
    "ClientTLSCipher": "",
    "ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 0,
    "ClientTLSVersion": "none",
    "ConnectionCloseReason": "CLIENT_CLOSED",
    "ConnectionReuse": false,
    "DestinationTunnelID": "93589057-cf67-1726-55bf-cd874d40c182",
    "DetectedProtocol": "ssh",
    "DeviceID": "efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae",
    "DeviceName": "fedora",
    "EgressColoName": "CDG",
    "EgressIP": "192.0.2.1",
    "EgressPort": 33040,
    "EgressRuleID": "75ebe064-5d5b-4696-de3a-29979af5d505",
    "EgressRuleName": "Default egress policy",
    "Email": "user@example.com",
    "IngressColoName": "CDG",
    "InitialOriginIP": "0.0.0.0",
    "Offramp": "CFD_TUNNEL",
    "OriginIP": "192.0.2.10",
    "OriginPort": 22,
    "OriginTLSCertificateIssuer": "Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3",
    "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "NONE",
    "OriginTLSCipher": "",
    "OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 0,
    "OriginTLSVersion": "none",
    "Protocol": "TCP",
    "RegistrationID": "efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae",
    "ResolvedFQDN": "",
    "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 4,
    "SessionEndTime": "2026-02-03T16:38:03Z",
    "SessionID": "8ede6bd685da04162a8aa908ce650ea5",
    "SessionStartTime": "2026-02-03T16:38:02Z",
    "SourceIP": "198.51.100.20",
    "SourceInternalIP": "203.0.113.30",
    "SourcePort": 33040,
    "UserID": "",
    "VirtualNetworkID": "c95bb9b3-8edb-b8b8-33c6-091e772b23d2"
}
{
    "AccountID": "00000000000000000000000000000000",
    "BytesReceived": 5000,
    "BytesSent": 2000,
    "ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs": 0,
    "ClientTLSCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
    "ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 22,
    "ClientTLSVersion": "TLSv1.3",
    "ConnectionCloseReason": "ORIGIN_CLOSED",
    "ConnectionReuse": true,
    "DestinationTunnelID": "",
    "DetectedProtocol": "quic",
    "DeviceID": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
    "DeviceName": "corp-laptop",
    "EgressColoName": "LHR",
    "EgressIP": "192.0.2.5",
    "EgressPort": 443,
    "EgressRuleID": "",
    "EgressRuleName": "",
    "Email": "user2@example.com",
    "IngressColoName": "LHR",
    "InitialOriginIP": "198.51.100.55",
    "Offramp": "WARP",
    "OriginIP": "198.51.100.55",
    "OriginPort": 443,
    "OriginTLSCertificateIssuer": "Example CA",
    "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "VALID",
    "OriginTLSCipher": "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384",
    "OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 18,
    "OriginTLSVersion": "TLSv1.3",
    "Protocol": "UDP",
    "RegistrationID": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
    "ResolvedFQDN": "app.example.com",
    "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 2,
    "SessionEndTime": "2026-02-10T09:15:30Z",
    "SessionID": "abc123def456abc123def456abc1234",
    "SessionStartTime": "2026-02-10T09:14:00Z",
    "SourceIP": "203.0.113.15",
    "SourceInternalIP": "203.0.113.16",
    "SourcePort": 54321,
    "UserID": "66666666-7777-8888-9999-000000000000",
    "VirtualNetworkID": ""
}

Detection section

The following section provides information for those who wish to learn more about the detection capabilities enabled by collecting this intake. It includes details about the built-in rule catalog, event categories, and ECS fields extracted from raw events. This is essential for users aiming to create custom detection rules, perform hunting activities, or pivot in the events page.

The following Sekoia.io built-in rules match the intake Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Session Logs. This documentation is updated automatically and is based solely on the fields used by the intake which are checked against our rules. This means that some rules will be listed but might not be relevant with the intake.

SEKOIA.IO x Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Session Logs on ATT&CK Navigator

Burp Suite Tool Detected

Burp Suite is a cybersecurity tool. When used as a proxy service, its purpose is to intercept packets and modify them to send them to the server. Burp Collaborator is a network service that Burp Suite uses to help discover many kinds of vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities scanner).

  • Effort: intermediate
Correlation Potential DNS Tunnel

Detects domain name which is longer than 62 characters and requested at least 50 times in a 10 minutes range time. Long domain names are distinctive of DNS tunnels.

  • Effort: advanced
Cryptomining

Detection of domain names potentially related to cryptomining activities.

  • Effort: master
Dynamic DNS Contacted

Detect communication with dynamic dns domain. This kind of domain is often used by attackers. This rule can trigger false positive in non-controlled environment because dynamic dns is not always malicious.

  • Effort: master
EvilProxy Phishing Domain

Detects subdomains potentially generated by the EvilProxy adversary-in-the-middle phishing platform. Inspect the other subdomains of the domain to identify the landing page, and determine if the user submitted credentials. This rule has a small percentage of false positives on legitimate domains.

  • Effort: intermediate
Exfiltration Domain

Detects traffic toward a domain flagged as a possible exfiltration vector.

  • Effort: master
Potential DNS Tunnel

Detects domain name which is longer than 62 characters. Long domain names are distinctive of DNS tunnels.

  • Effort: advanced
Remote Access Tool Domain

Detects traffic toward a domain flagged as a Remote Administration Tool (RAT).

  • Effort: master
Remote Monitoring and Management Software - AnyDesk

Detect artifacts related to the installation or execution of the Remote Monitoring and Management tool AnyDesk.

  • Effort: master
Remote Monitoring and Management Software - Atera

Detect artifacts related to the installation or execution of the Remote Monitoring and Management tool Atera.

  • Effort: master
SEKOIA.IO Intelligence Feed

Detect threats based on indicators of compromise (IOCs) collected by SEKOIA's Threat and Detection Research team.

  • Effort: elementary
Sekoia.io EICAR Detection

Detects observables in Sekoia.io CTI tagged as EICAR, which are fake samples meant to test detection.

  • Effort: master
Suspicious TOR Gateway

Detects suspicious TOR gateways. Gateways are often used by the victim to pay and decrypt the encrypted files without installing TOR. Tor intercepts the network traffic from one or more apps on user’s computer, usually the user web browser, and shuffles it through a number of randomly-chosen computers before passing it on to its destination. This disguises user location, and makes it harder for servers to pick him/her out on repeat visits, or to tie together separate visits to different sites, this making tracking and surveillance more difficult. Before a network packet starts its journey, user’s computer chooses a random list of relays and repeatedly encrypts the data in multiple layers, like an onion. Each relay knows only enough to strip off the outermost layer of encryption, before passing what’s left on to the next relay in the list.

  • Effort: advanced
TOR Usage

Detects TOR usage, based on the IP address and the destination port (filtered on NTP). TOR is short for The Onion Router, and it gets its name from how it works. TOR intercepts the network traffic from one or more apps on user’s computer, usually the user web browser, and shuffles it through a number of randomly-chosen computers before passing it on to its destination. This disguises user location, and makes it harder for servers to pick him/her out on repeat visits, or to tie together separate visits to different sites, this making tracking and surveillance more difficult. Before a network packet starts its journey, user’s computer chooses a random list of relays and repeatedly encrypts the data in multiple layers, like an onion. Each relay knows only enough to strip off the outermost layer of encryption, before passing what’s left on to the next relay in the list.

  • Effort: master
TOR Usage Generic Rule

Detects TOR usage globally, whether the IP is a destination or source. TOR is short for The Onion Router, and it gets its name from how it works. TOR intercepts the network traffic from one or more apps on user’s computer, usually the user web browser, and shuffles it through a number of randomly-chosen computers before passing it on to its destination. This disguises user location, and makes it harder for servers to pick him/her out on repeat visits, or to tie together separate visits to different sites, this making tracking and surveillance more difficult. Before a network packet starts its journey, user’s computer chooses a random list of relays and repeatedly encrypts the data in multiple layers, like an onion. Each relay knows only enough to strip off the outermost layer of encryption, before passing what’s left on to the next relay in the list.

  • Effort: master
Telegram Bot API Request

Detects suspicious DNS queries to api.telegram.org used by Telegram Bots of any kind

  • Effort: advanced

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source Description
Network protocol analysis Network sessions and protocols analyzed by Cloudflare Zero Trust
Netflow/Enclave netflow Network flow metadata for proxied connections
SSL/TLS inspection TLS handshakes, ciphers, and certificate validation details
Web proxy Network traffic proxied through Cloudflare Zero Trust Gateway

In details, the following table denotes the type of events produced by this integration.

Name Values
Kind event
Category network
Type connection

Transformed Events Samples after Ingestion

This section demonstrates how the raw logs will be transformed by our parsers. It shows the extracted fields that will be available for use in the built-in detection rules and hunting activities in the events page. Understanding these transformations is essential for analysts to create effective detection mechanisms with custom detection rules and to leverage the full potential of the collected data.

{
    "message": "{\"AccountID\":\"00000000000000000000000000000000\",\"BytesReceived\":120,\"BytesSent\":80,\"ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs\":10,\"ClientTLSCipher\":\"\",\"ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":0,\"ClientTLSVersion\":\"none\",\"ConnectionCloseReason\":\"CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT\",\"ConnectionReuse\":false,\"DestinationTunnelID\":\"\",\"DetectedProtocol\":\"dns\",\"DeviceID\":\"\",\"DeviceName\":\"\",\"EgressColoName\":\"AMS\",\"EgressIP\":\"192.0.2.6\",\"EgressPort\":53,\"EgressRuleID\":\"\",\"EgressRuleName\":\"\",\"Email\":\"\",\"IngressColoName\":\"AMS\",\"InitialOriginIP\":\"0.0.0.0\",\"Offramp\":\"INTERNET\",\"OriginIP\":\"198.51.100.70\",\"OriginPort\":53,\"OriginTLSCertificateIssuer\":\"\",\"OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult\":\"NONE\",\"OriginTLSCipher\":\"\",\"OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":0,\"OriginTLSVersion\":\"none\",\"Protocol\":\"UDP\",\"RegistrationID\":\"\",\"ResolvedFQDN\":\"\",\"RuleEvaluationDurationMs\":1,\"SessionEndTime\":\"2026-02-11T03:05:12Z\",\"SessionID\":\"def456abc123def456abc123def4560\",\"SessionStartTime\":\"2026-02-11T03:04:00Z\",\"SourceIP\":\"203.0.113.20\",\"SourceInternalIP\":\"\",\"SourcePort\":40100,\"UserID\":\"\",\"VirtualNetworkID\":\"\"}",
    "event": {
        "action": "network-session",
        "category": [
            "network"
        ],
        "dataset": "zero_trust_network_sessions",
        "end": "2026-02-11T03:05:12Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "reason": "CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT",
        "start": "2026-02-11T03:04:00Z",
        "type": [
            "connection"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2026-02-11T03:04:00Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "00000000000000000000000000000000"
        }
    },
    "cloudflare": {
        "ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs": 10,
        "ClientTLSVersion": "none",
        "ConnectionCloseReason": "CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT",
        "ConnectionReuse": false,
        "EgressColoName": "AMS",
        "EgressIP": "192.0.2.6",
        "EgressPort": 53,
        "IngressColoName": "AMS",
        "Offramp": "INTERNET",
        "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "NONE",
        "OriginTLSVersion": "none",
        "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 1,
        "SessionID": "def456abc123def456abc123def4560"
    },
    "destination": {
        "address": "198.51.100.70",
        "bytes": 120,
        "ip": "198.51.100.70",
        "port": 53
    },
    "network": {
        "bytes": 200,
        "protocol": "dns",
        "transport": "udp"
    },
    "observer": {
        "type": "proxy",
        "vendor": "Cloudflare"
    },
    "related": {
        "ip": [
            "198.51.100.70",
            "203.0.113.20"
        ]
    },
    "source": {
        "address": "203.0.113.20",
        "bytes": 80,
        "ip": "203.0.113.20",
        "port": 40100
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"AccountID\":\"00000000000000000000000000000000\",\"BytesReceived\":28718,\"BytesSent\":16278,\"ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs\":29,\"ClientTLSCipher\":\"\",\"ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":0,\"ClientTLSVersion\":\"none\",\"ConnectionCloseReason\":\"CLIENT_CLOSED\",\"ConnectionReuse\":false,\"DestinationTunnelID\":\"93589057-cf67-1726-55bf-cd874d40c182\",\"DetectedProtocol\":\"ssh\",\"DeviceID\":\"efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae\",\"DeviceName\":\"fedora\",\"EgressColoName\":\"CDG\",\"EgressIP\":\"192.0.2.1\",\"EgressPort\":33040,\"EgressRuleID\":\"75ebe064-5d5b-4696-de3a-29979af5d505\",\"EgressRuleName\":\"Default egress policy\",\"Email\":\"user@example.com\",\"IngressColoName\":\"CDG\",\"InitialOriginIP\":\"0.0.0.0\",\"Offramp\":\"CFD_TUNNEL\",\"OriginIP\":\"192.0.2.10\",\"OriginPort\":22,\"OriginTLSCertificateIssuer\":\"Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3\",\"OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult\":\"NONE\",\"OriginTLSCipher\":\"\",\"OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":0,\"OriginTLSVersion\":\"none\",\"Protocol\":\"TCP\",\"RegistrationID\":\"efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae\",\"ResolvedFQDN\":\"\",\"RuleEvaluationDurationMs\":4,\"SessionEndTime\":\"2026-02-03T16:38:03Z\",\"SessionID\":\"8ede6bd685da04162a8aa908ce650ea5\",\"SessionStartTime\":\"2026-02-03T16:38:02Z\",\"SourceIP\":\"198.51.100.20\",\"SourceInternalIP\":\"203.0.113.30\",\"SourcePort\":33040,\"UserID\":\"\",\"VirtualNetworkID\":\"c95bb9b3-8edb-b8b8-33c6-091e772b23d2\"}",
    "event": {
        "action": "network-session",
        "category": [
            "network"
        ],
        "dataset": "zero_trust_network_sessions",
        "end": "2026-02-03T16:38:03Z",
        "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "kind": "event",
        "reason": "CLIENT_CLOSED",
        "start": "2026-02-03T16:38:02Z",
        "type": [
            "connection"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2026-02-03T16:38:02Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "00000000000000000000000000000000"
        }
    },
    "cloudflare": {
        "ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs": 29,
        "ClientTLSVersion": "none",
        "ConnectionCloseReason": "CLIENT_CLOSED",
        "ConnectionReuse": false,
        "DestinationTunnelID": "93589057-cf67-1726-55bf-cd874d40c182",
        "EgressColoName": "CDG",
        "EgressIP": "192.0.2.1",
        "EgressPort": 33040,
        "EgressRuleID": "75ebe064-5d5b-4696-de3a-29979af5d505",
        "EgressRuleName": "Default egress policy",
        "IngressColoName": "CDG",
        "Offramp": "CFD_TUNNEL",
        "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "NONE",
        "OriginTLSVersion": "none",
        "RegistrationID": "efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae",
        "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 4,
        "SessionID": "8ede6bd685da04162a8aa908ce650ea5",
        "VirtualNetworkID": "c95bb9b3-8edb-b8b8-33c6-091e772b23d2"
    },
    "destination": {
        "address": "192.0.2.10",
        "bytes": 28718,
        "ip": "192.0.2.10",
        "port": 22
    },
    "device": {
        "id": "efdac52d-d59f-365e-2ad7-97d4fc1f77ae",
        "model": {
            "name": "fedora"
        }
    },
    "network": {
        "bytes": 44996,
        "protocol": "ssh",
        "transport": "tcp"
    },
    "observer": {
        "type": "proxy",
        "vendor": "Cloudflare"
    },
    "related": {
        "ip": [
            "192.0.2.10",
            "198.51.100.20",
            "203.0.113.30"
        ]
    },
    "rule": {
        "id": "75ebe064-5d5b-4696-de3a-29979af5d505",
        "name": "Default egress policy"
    },
    "source": {
        "address": "198.51.100.20",
        "bytes": 16278,
        "ip": "198.51.100.20",
        "nat": {
            "ip": "203.0.113.30"
        },
        "port": 33040
    },
    "tls": {
        "server": {
            "x509": {
                "issuer": {
                    "common_name": "Cloudflare Inc ECC CA-3"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "user": {
        "email": "user@example.com"
    }
}
{
    "message": "{\"AccountID\":\"00000000000000000000000000000000\",\"BytesReceived\":5000,\"BytesSent\":2000,\"ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs\":0,\"ClientTLSCipher\":\"TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256\",\"ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":22,\"ClientTLSVersion\":\"TLSv1.3\",\"ConnectionCloseReason\":\"ORIGIN_CLOSED\",\"ConnectionReuse\":true,\"DestinationTunnelID\":\"\",\"DetectedProtocol\":\"quic\",\"DeviceID\":\"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555\",\"DeviceName\":\"corp-laptop\",\"EgressColoName\":\"LHR\",\"EgressIP\":\"192.0.2.5\",\"EgressPort\":443,\"EgressRuleID\":\"\",\"EgressRuleName\":\"\",\"Email\":\"user2@example.com\",\"IngressColoName\":\"LHR\",\"InitialOriginIP\":\"198.51.100.55\",\"Offramp\":\"WARP\",\"OriginIP\":\"198.51.100.55\",\"OriginPort\":443,\"OriginTLSCertificateIssuer\":\"Example CA\",\"OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult\":\"VALID\",\"OriginTLSCipher\":\"TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384\",\"OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs\":18,\"OriginTLSVersion\":\"TLSv1.3\",\"Protocol\":\"UDP\",\"RegistrationID\":\"11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555\",\"ResolvedFQDN\":\"app.example.com\",\"RuleEvaluationDurationMs\":2,\"SessionEndTime\":\"2026-02-10T09:15:30Z\",\"SessionID\":\"abc123def456abc123def456abc1234\",\"SessionStartTime\":\"2026-02-10T09:14:00Z\",\"SourceIP\":\"203.0.113.15\",\"SourceInternalIP\":\"203.0.113.16\",\"SourcePort\":54321,\"UserID\":\"66666666-7777-8888-9999-000000000000\",\"VirtualNetworkID\":\"\"}",
    "event": {
        "action": "network-session",
        "category": [
            "network"
        ],
        "dataset": "zero_trust_network_sessions",
        "end": "2026-02-10T09:15:30Z",
        "kind": "event",
        "reason": "ORIGIN_CLOSED",
        "start": "2026-02-10T09:14:00Z",
        "type": [
            "connection"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2026-02-10T09:14:00Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "00000000000000000000000000000000"
        }
    },
    "cloudflare": {
        "ClientTLSCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
        "ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 22,
        "ClientTLSVersion": "TLSv1.3",
        "ConnectionCloseReason": "ORIGIN_CLOSED",
        "ConnectionReuse": true,
        "EgressColoName": "LHR",
        "EgressIP": "192.0.2.5",
        "EgressPort": 443,
        "IngressColoName": "LHR",
        "InitialOriginIP": "198.51.100.55",
        "Offramp": "WARP",
        "OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult": "VALID",
        "OriginTLSCipher": "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384",
        "OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs": 18,
        "OriginTLSVersion": "TLSv1.3",
        "RegistrationID": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
        "RuleEvaluationDurationMs": 2,
        "SessionID": "abc123def456abc123def456abc1234"
    },
    "destination": {
        "address": "app.example.com",
        "bytes": 5000,
        "domain": "app.example.com",
        "ip": "198.51.100.55",
        "nat": {
            "ip": "198.51.100.55"
        },
        "port": 443,
        "registered_domain": "example.com",
        "subdomain": "app",
        "top_level_domain": "com"
    },
    "device": {
        "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555",
        "model": {
            "name": "corp-laptop"
        }
    },
    "network": {
        "bytes": 7000,
        "protocol": "quic",
        "transport": "udp"
    },
    "observer": {
        "type": "proxy",
        "vendor": "Cloudflare"
    },
    "related": {
        "hosts": [
            "app.example.com"
        ],
        "ip": [
            "198.51.100.55",
            "203.0.113.15",
            "203.0.113.16"
        ]
    },
    "source": {
        "address": "203.0.113.15",
        "bytes": 2000,
        "ip": "203.0.113.15",
        "nat": {
            "ip": "203.0.113.16"
        },
        "port": 54321
    },
    "tls": {
        "cipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256",
        "server": {
            "x509": {
                "issuer": {
                    "common_name": "Example CA"
                }
            }
        },
        "version": "TLSv1.3"
    },
    "user": {
        "email": "user2@example.com",
        "id": "66666666-7777-8888-9999-000000000000"
    }
}

Extracted Fields

The following table lists the fields that are extracted, normalized under the ECS format, analyzed and indexed by the parser. It should be noted that infered fields are not listed.

Name Type Description
@timestamp date Date/time when the event originated.
cloud.account.id keyword The cloud account or organization id.
cloudflare.ClientTCPHandshakeDurationMs number Duration of handshaking the TCP connection between the client and Cloudflare in milliseconds.
cloudflare.ClientTLSCipher text TLS cipher suite used in the connection between the client and Cloudflare.
cloudflare.ClientTLSHandshakeDurationMs number Duration of handshaking the TLS connection between the client and Cloudflare in milliseconds.
cloudflare.ClientTLSVersion text TLS protocol version used in the connection between the client and Cloudflare.
cloudflare.ConnectionCloseReason text The reason for closing the connection, only applicable for TCP.
Possible values are CLIENT_CLOSED CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT CLIENT_TLS_ERROR
cloudflare.ConnectionReuse boolean Whether the TCP connection was reused for multiple HTTP requests.
cloudflare.DestinationTunnelID text Identifier of the Cloudflare One connector to which the network session was routed to, if any, such as Cloudflare Tunnel or WARP device.
cloudflare.EgressColoName text The name of the Cloudflare data center from which traffic egressed to the origin.
cloudflare.EgressIP ip Source IP used when egressing traffic from Cloudflare to the origin.
cloudflare.EgressPort number Source port used when egressing traffic from Cloudflare to the origin.
cloudflare.EgressRuleID text Identifier of the egress rule that was applied by the Secure Web Gateway, if any.
cloudflare.EgressRuleName text The name of the egress rule that was applied by the Secure Web Gateway, if any.
cloudflare.IngressColoName text The name of the Cloudflare data center to which traffic ingressed.
cloudflare.InitialOriginIP ip The IP used to correlate existing FQDN matching policy between Gateway DNS and Gateway proxy.
cloudflare.Offramp text The type of destination to which the network session was routed.
Possible values are INTERNET MAGIC CFD_TUNNEL
cloudflare.OriginTLSCertificateValidationResult text The result of validating the TLS certificate of the origin.
Possible values are VALID EXPIRED REVOKED
cloudflare.OriginTLSCipher text TLS cipher suite used in the connection between Cloudflare and the origin.
cloudflare.OriginTLSHandshakeDurationMs number Duration of handshaking the TLS connection between Cloudflare and the origin in milliseconds.
cloudflare.OriginTLSVersion text TLS protocol version used in the connection between Cloudflare and the origin.
cloudflare.RegistrationID text Identifier of the client registration which initiated the network session, if applicable (for example, WARP Registration ID).
cloudflare.RuleEvaluationDurationMs number The duration taken by Secure Web Gateway applying applicable Network, HTTP, and Egress rules to the network session in milliseconds.
cloudflare.SessionID text The identifier of this network session.
cloudflare.VirtualNetworkID text Identifier of the virtual network configured for the client.
destination.bytes long Bytes sent from the destination to the source.
destination.domain keyword The domain name of the destination.
destination.ip ip IP address of the destination.
destination.nat.ip ip Destination NAT ip
destination.port long Port of the destination.
event.action keyword The action captured by the event.
event.category keyword Event category. The second categorization field in the hierarchy.
event.dataset keyword Name of the dataset.
event.end date event.end contains the date when the event ended or when the activity was last observed.
event.kind keyword The kind of the event. The highest categorization field in the hierarchy.
event.reason keyword Reason why this event happened, according to the source
event.start date event.start contains the date when the event started or when the activity was first observed.
event.type keyword Event type. The third categorization field in the hierarchy.
network.bytes long Total bytes transferred in both directions.
network.protocol keyword Application protocol name.
network.transport keyword Protocol Name corresponding to the field iana_number.
observer.type keyword The type of the observer the data is coming from.
observer.vendor keyword Vendor name of the observer.
rule.id keyword Rule ID
rule.name keyword Rule name
source.bytes long Bytes sent from the source to the destination.
source.ip ip IP address of the source.
source.nat.ip ip Source NAT ip
source.port long Port of the source.
tls.cipher keyword String indicating the cipher used during the current connection.
tls.server.x509.issuer.common_name keyword List of common name (CN) of issuing certificate authority.
tls.version keyword Numeric part of the version parsed from the original string.
user.email keyword User email address.
user.id keyword Unique identifier of the user.

For more information on the Intake Format, please find the code of the Parser, Smart Descriptions, and Supported Events here.