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Create timeline from Plaso file

You need to run version >= 1.5.0 Plaso on your Timesketch server. See the official Plaso documentation for installing Plaso and it's dependencies. If you haven't installed Timesketch yet, take a look at the installation instructions.

When you have working installations of Timesketch and Plaso you can, from the command line, do:

$ psort.py -o timesketch -h
Optional arguments for output modules:
  --name NAME           The name of the timeline in Timesketch. Default:
                        hostname if present in the storage file. If no
                        hostname is found then manual input is used.
  --index INDEX         The name of the Elasticsearch index. Default: Generate
                        a random UUID
  --flush_interval FLUSH_INTERVAL
                        The number of events to queue up before sent in bulk
                        to Elasticsearch. Default: 1000

All of the above arguments are optional. If you don't provide a name for your timeline the module will try to extract the hostname from the Plaso storage file and if this fails it will prompt you to enter a name.

So all that is needed is:

$ psort.py -o timesketch dump.plaso
[INFO] Timeline name: machine1
[INFO] Index: 206a36873cc140c1958a7d20fcd14dba
[INFO] Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.34.19
[INFO] Adding events to Timesketch..
...
[INFO] Output processing is done.
[INFO]
*********************************** Counter ************************************
[INFO]             Stored Events : 9022
[INFO]           Events Included : 9022
[INFO]        Duplicate Removals : 1