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Getting started The purpose of this tutorial is to extend the HELK stack to ingest pi-hole log data. This tutorial can easily extend data ingestion to any custom data that we would need to monitor in our environments. The use of pi-hole is to stop ads at the DNS level, effectively cutting potential infection and compromization via malicious ads. This...

Installing Elixir & Phoenix: The Steps This guide will focus on installing all the requirements to get Elixir & Phoenix installed on a Windows 10 machine via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and getting PostgreSQL as the primary database. This guide will assume that you already know how to install WSL Bash on Windows 10. I won’t go over...

Installing Rails: The Steps This will focus on installing Ruby, Rails, and getting PostgreSQL to play nicely with Rails and Bash on Windows 10. We will be leveraging the Linux subsystem on Windows 10. This article will not go over installing the Linux Subsystem and getting Bash up and running, there’s already great articles on that very subject. Here is...