Route Cisco Umbrella Logs to CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale with LogConnector
Cisco Umbrella gives you a strong DNS and web security layer, but raw logs alone are not enough for fast investigations. By pairing LogConnector with Falcon LogScale, you standardize Umbrella telemetry, control ingestion cost and get dashboards that actually help SOC analysts answer questions in seconds instead of minutes.
In todays rapidly changing threat landscape, protecting users on and off the corporate network is non negotiable. Cisco Umbrella offers a cloud based security layer that blocks malicious domains, monitors DNS activity and inspects web traffic before it hits your endpoints. The challenge is turning those rich DNS and proxy logs into something your SOC can actually work with. Falcon LogScale gives you the search performance, but it needs clean, normalized telemetry as input. That is what LogConnector is built to handle.
Introduction to LogConnector
LogConnector is a custom application that bridges your Cisco Umbrella environment and CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale. It takes care of collection, transformation and routing so that your engineering team is not stuck maintaining brittle scripts or manual exports when someone wants a new log source onboarded.
- Connects to Cisco Umbrella log exports and brings audit, DNS and proxy streams into a consistent schema.
- Adds light enrichment so analysts can pivot by user, IP, domain, policy or identity without complex lookups.
- Routes only the fields and events you care about into Falcon LogScale indexes, keeping ingestion clean and cost predictable.
Effortless onboarding and powerful analysis of Cisco Umbrella logs
With the Cisco Umbrella connector feeding LogConnector, you can centralize DNS and web telemetry into Falcon LogScale and stop hopping across separate Umbrella views for every question. Clean indexes and focused dashboards make it far easier to trace user activity, identify risky domains and validate that security policies are doing what you think they are.
Cisco Umbrella connector allows you to pull:
- ✓Audit logs that track configuration and policy changes.
- ✓DNS logs that reveal what domains users and devices are resolving over time.
- ✓Proxy logs that surface full URL level activity and blocked requests.
Once these streams are normalized through LogConnector and landed in Falcon LogScale, the Cisco Umbrella dashboards become a true SOC console. Analysts can trace threats from DNS resolution through web requests and correlate with endpoint and identity data already inside Falcon.
Conclusion
As internet threats grow more complex, having real time visibility into DNS and web activity is critical for security teams. DataElicit Cisco Umbrella Connector plus LogConnector and Falcon LogScale give you a unified way to ingest, normalize and analyze Umbrella logs without building custom plumbing. With this stack in place, your SOC can respond faster, validate policy coverage and stay ahead of attackers that use web and DNS as their first foothold.
Ready to dive deeper?
This article covers the essentials. In real engagements, we help teams tailor routing rules, index strategies and dashboards so Cisco Umbrella data fits naturally into their wider Falcon footprint, instead of sitting in a separate silo.
With LogConnector standardizing how Umbrella logs land in Falcon LogScale, you get predictable ingestion, faster searches and fewer blind spots in DNS and web security. That is usually the moment when Umbrella stops being just another console and becomes part of the core SOC workflow.
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