.TH ZEEK "8" "November 2014" "zeek" "System Administration Utilities"
.SH NAME
zeek \- passive network traffic analyzer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B zeek
\/\fP [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIfile\fR ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Zeek is primarily a security monitor that inspects all traffic on a link in
depth for signs of suspicious activity. More generally, however, Zeek
supports a wide range of traffic analysis tasks even outside of the
security domain, including performance measurements and helping with
trouble-shooting.

Zeek comes with built-in functionality for a range of analysis and detection
tasks, including detecting malware by interfacing to external registries,
reporting vulnerable versions of software seen on the network, identifying
popular web applications, detecting SSH brute-forcing, validating SSL
certificate chains, among others.

You must have the necessary permissions to access to the files or interfaces specified.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B <file>
policy file, or read stdin
.TP
\fB\-a\fR,\ \-\-parse\-only
exit immediately after parsing scripts
.TP
\fB\-b\fR,\ \-\-bare\-mode
don't load scripts from the base/ directory
.TP
\fB\-d\fR,\ \-\-debug\-policy
activate policy file debugging
.TP
\fB\-e\fR,\ \-\-exec <zeek code>
augment loaded policies by given code
.TP
\fB\-f\fR,\ \-\-filter <filter>
tcpdump filter
.TP
\fB\-h\fR,\ \-\-help|\-?
command line help
.TP
\fB\-i\fR,\ \-\-iface <interface>
read from given interface
.TP
\fB\-p\fR,\ \-\-prefix <prefix>
add given prefix to policy file resolution
.TP
\fB\-r\fR,\ \-\-readfile <readfile>
read from given tcpdump file
.TP
\fB\-s\fR,\ \-\-rulefile <rulefile>
read rules from given file
.TP
\fB\-t\fR,\ \-\-tracefile <tracefile>
activate execution tracing
.TP
\fB\-w\fR,\ \-\-writefile <writefile>
write to given tcpdump file
.TP
\fB\-v\fR,\ \-\-version
print version and exit
.TP
\fB\-x\fR,\ \-\-print\-state <file.bst>
print contents of state file
.TP
\fB\-C\fR,\ \-\-no\-checksums
ignore checksums
.TP
\fB\-F\fR,\ \-\-force\-dns
force DNS
.TP
\fB\-I\fR,\ \-\-print\-id <ID name>
print out given ID
.TP
\fB\-N\fR,\ \-\-print\-plugins
print available plugins and exit (\fB\-NN\fR for verbose)
.TP
\fB\-P\fR,\ \-\-prime\-dns
prime DNS
.TP
\fB\-Q\fR,\ \-\-time
print execution time summary to stderr
.TP
\fB\-R\fR,\ \-\-replay <events.bst>
replay events
.TP
\fB\-S\fR,\ \-\-debug\-rules
enable rule debugging
.TP
\fB\-T\fR,\ \-\-re\-level <level>
set 'RE_level' for rules
.TP
\fB\-U\fR,\ \-\-status\-file <file>
Record process status in file
.TP
\fB\-W\fR,\ \-\-watchdog
activate watchdog timer
.TP
\fB\-X\fR,\ \-\-zeekygen <cfgfile>
generate documentation based on config file
.TP
\fB\-\-pseudo\-realtime[=\fR<speedup>]
enable pseudo\-realtime for performance evaluation (default 1)
.TP
\fB\-\-load\-seeds\fR <file>
load seeds from given file
.TP
\fB\-\-save\-seeds\fR <file>
save seeds to given file
.TP
The following option is available only when Zeek is built with the \-\-enable\-debug configure option:
.TP
\fB\-B\fR,\ \-\-debug <dbgstreams>
Enable debugging output for selected streams ('-B help' for help)
.TP
The following options are available only when Zeek is built with gperftools support (use the \-\-enable\-perftools and \-\-enable\-perftools\-debug configure options):
.TP
\fB\-m\fR,\ \-\-mem-leaks
show leaks
.TP
\fB\-M\fR,\ \-\-mem-profile
record heap
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B ZEEKPATH
file search path
.TP
.B ZEEK_PLUGIN_PATH
plugin search path
.TP
.B ZEEK_PLUGIN_ACTIVATE
plugins to always activate
.TP
.B ZEEK_PREFIXES
prefix list
.TP
.B ZEEK_DNS_FAKE
disable DNS lookups
.TP
.B ZEEK_SEED_FILE
file to load seeds from
.TP
.B ZEEK_LOG_SUFFIX
ASCII log file extension
.TP
.B ZEEK_PROFILER_FILE
Output file for script execution statistics
.TP
.B ZEEK_DISABLE_ZEEKYGEN
Disable Zeekygen (Broxygen) documentation support
.SH OUTPUT FORMAT
Output is written in multiple files depending on configuration. The default
location is the current directory.

The output written by Zeek can be formatted in multiple ways using the
logging framework.
.PP
The default are files in human-readable (ASCII) format. The data is organized
into columns (tab-delimited). The data can be processed using, e.g., the \fBzeek-cut\fR tool.


.SH EXAMPLES
Read a capture file and generate the default logs:
.br
    # zeek -r test-capture.pcap
.PP
When running on live traffic, Zeek is usually started by running \fBzeekctl\fR. To configure
Zeek with an initial configuration, install, and restart:
.br
    # zeekctl deploy

Note: the zeekctl configuration may need to be updated before first use. Especially the
network interface used should be the correct one.
.SH SEE ALSO
zeekctl(8) zeek-cut(1)
.SH AUTHOR
.B zeek
was written by The Zeek Project <info@zeek.org>.