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CB Response: Watchlist is Hitting Some But Not All the Qualified Watchlist Hits

CB Response: Watchlist is Hitting Some But Not All the Qualified Watchlist Hits

Environment

CB Response: 6.1.x and Higher

Symptoms

A watchlist is recording hits but some behavior that should be hitting the watchlist doesn't get hit

Cause

Watchlists have a maximum of 100 hits by default

Resolution

  1. While logged in as root user 
  2. Edit the /etc/cb/cb.conf file
  3. Add WatchlistSearchMaxTags=<Value>
  4. Save the settings 
  5. Restart the services following this

Additional Notes

  • If watchlists are getting more hits than this, then it's recommended to narrow down the behavior they monitor
  • This value can be increased but it's not recommended to go past 200 
  • The watchlist will only hit once on the same running process for the same behavior in order to limit noise 

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