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Feature: validation of detections against cms_main #303

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@cmcginley-splunk cmcginley-splunk commented Oct 8, 2024

Context

  • We need to validate that our detections not only work in ES, but are also being parsed correctly by the content versioning service

Code change

  • Added ContentVersioningService
    • Enables content versioning
    • Activates CMS parser
    • Validates detections against CMS events, reports any missing detections or other validation issues. Validations include:
      • Counts between cms_main and detections based on YAMLs match
      • Each detection can be matched to a cms_event
      • Each cms_event can be matched to a detection
      • No cms_event is repeated
      • UUIDs match between cms/detection pairs
      • Versions match between cms/detection pairs
      • Full search name matches between cms/detection pairs
      • Correlationsearch label matches between cms/detection pairs
      • Sourcetype matches between cms/detection pairs
    • Returns a list of setup functions which are optionally inserted into the main setup of DetectionTestingInfrastructure
  • Aggregating errors across all threads (setup, testing, view, view shutdown) and reporting en masse
  • Broke up setup functions list to allow for optional inclusion of the content versioning setup functions
  • NOTE: Now we raise any exceptions that crop up during setup, instead of just logging them
  • Added logic to DetectionTestingInfrastructure to query installed ES version, so we can determine when it is appropriate to run content versioning validation
    • Content versioning validation is only run when 1) integration testing is enabled, 2) ES 8.0.0+ is installed, and 3) when the testing mode is All
  • Moved logging utility in CorrelationSearch (useful for debugging) to helper.utils.Utils so it could be re-used in ContentVersioningService

Testing

  • I've tested locally w/ some quick and dirty edits to the savedsearches.conf file and all seems to work well
  • Want to test in CI, but currently the changes to dashboards in contentctl preclude me from testing this on the security_content repo as it exists today
Screenshot 2024-10-08 at 12 38 55 PM

Caveats

  • Note that we now raise exceptions from setup, instead of logging and dropping them; I believe this is desirable
  • I went back and forth as to whether this validation should happen as part of setup, OR if I should create some new type of test case. I opted for the former as this type of testing doesn't fit our current testing paradigm; validation against the cms_main index should happen in aggregate, a test of the whole package, not individual detections. We do not have an easy way to insert testing at that level presently.
  • Additionally, this validation probably only needs to be run against a single instance and not necessarily all instances in a single run, but I don't see an easy or clean way to do that as well, and there's no harm or impact on execution time as far as I can tell

TODOs

  • disable logging
  • remove TODOs or create follow up issues
  • Test in CI when able

@cmcginley-splunk cmcginley-splunk changed the title Feature/validation against cms main Feature: validation of detections against cms_main Oct 8, 2024
@cmcginley-splunk cmcginley-splunk marked this pull request as ready for review October 8, 2024 19:50
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