Siren Platform User Guide

server.port:

Default: 5606. Siren Investigate is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.

server.host:

Default: localhost. This setting specifies the host of the back end server.

server.basePath:

Enables you to specify a path to mount Siren Investigate as if you are running behind a proxy. This only affects the URLs generated by Siren Investigate, your proxy is expected to remove the basePath value before forwarding requests to Siren Investigate. This setting cannot end in a slash (/).

server.maxPayloadBytes:

Default: 1048576. The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

server.name:

Default: your-hostname. A human-readable display name that identifies this Siren Investigate instance.

server.defaultRoute:

Default: /app/kibana. This setting specifies the default route when opening Siren Investigate. You can use this setting to modify the landing page when opening Siren Investigate.

elasticsearch.url:

Default: http://localhost:9220. The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.preserveHost:

Default: true. When this setting’s value is true Siren Investigate uses the hostname specified in the server.host setting. When the value of this setting is false, Siren Investigate uses the hostname of the host that connects to this Siren Investigate instance.

kibana.index:

Default: .siren. Siren Investigate uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and dashboards. Siren Investigate creates a new index if the index does not already exist.

kibana.defaultAppId:

Default: discover. The default application to load.

tilemap

The tilemap is the base layer the map visualizations. To increase max zoom level for mapping visualizations, copy the following object in the investigate.ymlfile, this will increase the zoom level to 19 from the default of 15.

tilemap:
  url: "https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
  options:
    attribution: '©[OpenStreetMap("http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright")'
    subdomains: ['a']
    minZoom: 0
    maxZoom: 19
      

tilemap.url:

The URL to the tile service that Siren Investigate uses to display map tiles in tilemap visualizations. By default, Siren Investigate reads this URL from an external metadata service, but users can still override this parameter to use their own Tile Map Service.

tilemap.options.minZoom:

Default: 1. The minimum zoom level.

tilemap.options.maxZoom:

Default: 15. The maximum zoom level.

tilemap.options.attribution:

Default: © [OpenStreetMap]("http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright"). The map attribution string.

tilemap.options.subdomains:

An array of subdomains used by the tile service. Specify the position of the subdomain in the URL with the token {s}.

regionmap

Specifies additional vector layers for use in Region Map visualizations. Each layer object points to an external vector file that contains a GeoJSON FeatureCollection. The file must use the WGS84 coordinate reference system and only include polygons. If the file is hosted on a separate domain from Siren Investigate, the server needs to be CORS (Cross Origin Request Security) enabled so that Siren Investigate can download the file. The following example shows a valid regionmap configuration.

regionmap:
  layers:
       name: "Departments of France"
       url: "http://my.cors.enabled.server.org/france_departements.geojson"
       attribution: "INRAP"
       fields:
          name: "department"
          description: "Full department name"
          name: "INSEE"
          description: "INSEE numeric identifier"

regionmap.layers.name:

Mandatory. A description of the map being provided.

regionmap.layers.url:

Mandatory. The location of the GeoJSON file as provided by a web server.

regionmap.layers.attribution:

Optional. References the originating source of the GeoJSON file.

regionmap.layers.fields:

Mandatory. Each layer can contain multiple fields to indicate what properties from the geojson features you want to expose. This example shows how to define multiple properties.

regionmap.layers.fields.name:

Mandatory. This value is used to do an inner-join between the document stored in Elasticsearch and the GeoJSON file. For example, if the field in the GeoJSON is called Location and has city names, there must be a field in Elasticsearch that holds the same values that Siren Investigate can then use to lookup for the GeoShape data.

regionmap.layers.fields.description:

Mandatory. The human readable text that is shown under the Options tab when building the Region Map visualization.

elasticsearch.username: and elasticsearch.password:

If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide the username and password that the Siren Investigate server uses to perform maintenance on the Siren Investigate index at startup. Your Siren Investigate users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which is proxied through the Siren Investigate server.

server.ssl.enabled

Default: false. Enables SSL for incoming requests from the browser to Siren Investigate. When set to true, server.ssl.certificate and server.ssl.key are required

server.ssl.certificate: and server.ssl.key:

Paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.

server.ssl.keyPassphrase:

The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.

server.ssl.certificateAuthorities:

List of paths to PEM encoded certificate files that should be trusted.

server.ssl.supportedProtocols:

Default: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2. Supported protocols with versions. Valid protocols: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2

server.ssl.cipherSuites:

Default: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256, HIGH,!aNULL, !eNULL, !EXPORT, !DES, !RC4, !MD5, !PSK, !SRP, !CAMELLIA. For more information on the format, and valid options, refer to the OpenSSL cipher list format documentation (https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/apps/ciphers.html#CIPHER-LIST-FORMAT).

elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: and elasticsearch.ssl.key:

Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files. These files are used to verify the identity of Siren Investigate to Elasticsearch and are required when xpack.ssl.verification_mode in Elasticsearch is set to either certificate or full.

elasticsearch.ssl.keyPassphrase:

The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities:

Optional setting that enables you to specify a list of paths to the PEM file for the certificate authority for your Elasticsearch instance.

elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode:

Default: full. Controls the verification of certificates presented by Elasticsearch. Valid values are none, certificate, and full. full performs hostname verification, and certificate does not.

elasticsearch.pingTimeout:

Default: the value of the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting. Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings.

elasticsearch.requestTimeout:

Default: 30000. Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value must be a positive integer.

elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist:

Default: [ 'authorization' ]. List of Siren Investigate client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send no client-side headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).

elasticsearch.customHeaders:

Default: {}. Header names and values to send to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.

elasticsearch.shardTimeout:

Default: 0. Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to switch off.

elasticsearch.startupTimeout:

Default: 5000. Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Siren Investigate startup before retrying.

pid.file:

Specifies the path where Siren Investigate creates the process ID file.

path.data:

Default: ./data. The path where Siren Investigate stores persistent data not saved in Elasticsearch

logging.dest:

Default: stdout. Enables you specify a file where Siren Investigate stores log output.

logging.silent:

Default: false. Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.

logging.quiet:

Default: false. Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.

logging.verbose:

Default: false. Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information and all requests.

ops.interval:

Default: 5000. Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance metrics. The minimum value is 100.

status.allowAnonymous:

Default: false. If authentication is enabled, setting this to true allows unauthenticated users to access the Siren Investigate server status API and status page.

cpu.cgroup.path.override:

Override for cgroup cpu path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with /proc/self/cgroup

cpuacct.cgroup.path.override:

Override for cgroup cpuacct path when mounted in manner that is inconsistent with /proc/self/cgroup

console.enabled

Default: true. Set to false to disable Console. Toggling this will cause the server to regenerate assets on the next startup, which may cause a delay before pages start being served.

elasticsearch.tribe.url:

Optional URL of the Elasticsearch tribe instance to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.tribe.username: and elasticsearch.tribe.password:

If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide the username and password that the Siren Investigate server uses to perform maintenance on the Siren Investigate index at startup. Your Siren Investigate users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which is proxied through the Siren Investigate server.

elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.cert: and elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.key:

Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files. These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.

elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.keyPassphrase:

The passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key. This value is optional as the key may not be encrypted.

elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.certificateAuthorities:

Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate authority for your tribe Elasticsearch instance.

elasticsearch.tribe.ssl.verificationMode:

Default: full. Controls the verification of certificates. Valid values are none, certificate, and full. While full performs hostname verification, certificate does not.

elasticsearch.tribe.pingTimeout:

Default: the value of the elasticsearch.tribe.requestTimeout setting. Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings.

elasticsearch.tribe.requestTimeout:

Default: 30000. Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value must be a positive integer.

elasticsearch.tribe.requestHeadersWhitelist:

Default: [ 'authorization' ].  List of Siren Investigate client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send no client-side headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).

elasticsearch.tribe.customHeaders:

Default: {}. Header names and values to send to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.tribe.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.