title: Monitoring Agent Connection False Positive Filter
id: 2a23b63c-89cb-599a-ac9a-34dfded83f2a
custom_id: wf-filter-005
status: stable
logsource:
    product: witfoo
    service: artifact-exporter
description: |
    Filters out long-lived connection alerts from known monitoring agents
    and management tools that maintain persistent connections by design.
    Customize agent patterns to match your monitoring infrastructure.
author: WitFoo
date: 2026-02-21
tags:
    - attack.command_and_control
    - attack.t1071
detection:
    selection:
        messageType: "anomalous_behavior"
    filter_monitoring:
        program|contains:
            - "zabbix"
            - "nagios"
            - "prometheus"
            - "telegraf"
            - "datadog"
            - "splunkd"
            - "filebeat"
            - "fluentd"
            - "ossec"
            - "wazuh"
    condition: selection and filter_monitoring
falsepositives:
    - None expected when monitoring agent patterns are correctly configured
