# pfelk/pfelk

pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack

Repository: https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pfelk
Homepage: https://pfelk.github.io/pfelk/
Language: Shell
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: pfsense, elasticsearch, opnsense, elastic, siem, firewall, logs, docker
Last push: 2025-11-28T21:47:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 47/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 54, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3226, "days_push": 278, "days_rel": 590, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1223, forks 199 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:02.722015+00:00)

## What it is
pfelk is an open-source deployment toolkit that integrates pfSense/OPNsense firewall logs with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for ingestion, enrichment, search, and visualization. It ships prebuilt Logstash pipelines and Kibana dashboards for firewall traffic, VPN, DNS, IDS/IPS, proxy, and related log sources, deployable via docker-compose, Ansible, or scripts.

## Use cases
- visualize pfsense firewall logs with kibana dashboards
- centralize opnsense logs in elasticsearch
- build a home lab siem for firewall traffic
- analyze suricata and snort ids alerts
- monitor openvpn and unbound dns logs
- search firewall logs in near real time

## When to choose
- you run pfSense or OPNsense and want rich search and dashboards beyond the built-in web UI
- you want a self-hosted SIEM-style view of firewall, VPN, DNS, and IDS logs
- you prefer docker-compose or Ansible-based deployment of the Elastic Stack

## When to avoid
- you don't use pfSense or OPNsense as your firewall
- you lack the recommended hardware (8GB+ RAM, ideally 32GB)
- you need a lightweight log viewer rather than a full Elastic Stack deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, logging, data-visualization, search-engine, analytics
- domain: security, networking, monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cli
- tags: pfsense, opnsense, elk-stack, logstash, kibana, siem, firewall-logs, log-ingestion, network-traffic-analysis, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- pfelk/pfelk (main) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.722015+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:34.446692+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.722015+00:00, sha 21839991957b)
  - homepage: https://pfelk.github.io/pfelk/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:45.860035+00:00, sha 2ddcb9ea76ed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.