Configure Kafka topics (run on one kafka node) doc/kafka_topics.sh Initialize elasticsearch: curl -X PUT 'http://:9200/threatline' -d@doc/es_mapping.json Install service file (FreeBSD): cp doc/threatline /usr/local/etc/rc.d/threatline Enable threatline: sysrc threatline_enable=YES sysrc threatline_agents="normalize enrich check archive" Start threatline: service threatline start Monitor logs: tail -f /tmp/tl_worker.log Stages: Normalize: Touch-up/rename fields, etc. Enrich: Enrich and part of the message. Check: Checks parts of message (now enriched) against known bad stuff. Archive: Push document into elasticsearch. Can also log to file.