Building a Redis Analyzer with Spicy

by | Jan 22, 2025 | Protocol Parsing, Spicy, Zeek

You can find the source code referenced throughout this post here — though, it is quite different from what is written here. Redis is an in-memory, key-value database. Its primary use is for caching. It does this over the network, but it’s only really meant to be used...

Introducing Zeek 7.1

by | Jan 13, 2025 | 7.1, development, release, Zeek

The Zeek team is proud to announce Zeek 7.1! Work on this release began in July 2024 and includes some 1,400 commits, 340 pull requests, and 130 closed issues. The 7.1 release introduces new user-visible features, contains many bugfixes, and advances a bunch of...

Introducing Zeek 7

by | Aug 27, 2024 | 7.0, development, release, Zeek

The Zeek team is proud to announce the release of Zeek 7! Work on this release began in February 2024 and includes some 1,100 commits, 330 pull requests, and 140 closed issues. As always, we are particularly grateful to our community members who contributed to this...

Recent Zeek Performance Improvements

by | Mar 12, 2024 | development, performance, Zeek

Over the course of the past year we’ve made a number of changes to Zeek that have positively affected its performance, sometimes considerably. This blog post highlights a few places and changes that knowingly improved performance between Zeek 5.2 and Zeek 6.2....

Introducing Zeek 6

by | Jul 13, 2023 | 6.0, development, release, Zeek

The Zeek team is proud to announce the release of Zeek 6! Work on this release began in February and comprises around 720 commits in 210 PRs. We’re deeply grateful to our contributors in this release cycle, including Jan Grashöfer, Eldon Koyle, Michael Torres, and...