Logging websites visited from my home network

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Lance replied

29 June 2022, 08:10
Originally posted by TheDude View Post

So I installed Pi Hole.

I am very impressed at the improvement to my browsing experience but but because it works on DNS queries it only logs the domain, not the full URL.

Any suggestions to what I could use to log all URLs visited? If it can run on the same Raspberry Pi so much the better.

you'd need a proxy for that. Or some form of endpoint monitoring.

The Pi can run squid proxy. But you will need SSL inspection to get the URLs of HTTPS sites. That is easy enough if you understand certificates (most devs don't) and can manage your own internal CA.

I have MS Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 (part of M365 licensing). That allows me to query against the URLS based on the Defender Agent sending telemetry to M365. That costs money (I have the MS Action pack and 1 license of E5 security addon).
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TheDude replied

29 June 2022, 07:42
So I installed Pi Hole.

I am very impressed at the improvement to my browsing experience but but because it works on DNS queries it only logs the domain, not the full URL.

Any suggestions to what I could use to log all URLs visited? If it can run on the same Raspberry Pi so much the better.
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Lance replied

13 June 2022, 12:33
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

I have Pi-Hole, a cheap Raspberry Pi will do the job for you (and also help you block a tulip ton of ads)

+1 for Pi-hole.
Doesn't even need a Raspberry. I run it on a hyper-v VM with Ubuntu.
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SimonMac replied

13 June 2022, 11:32
I have Pi-Hole, a cheap Raspberry Pi will do the job for you (and also help you block a tulip ton of ads)
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TheDude replied

13 June 2022, 08:34
To be clear I am happy to buy more hardware if that makes the situation easier.
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hobnob replied

13 June 2022, 08:15
Normally I'd recommend syslog for this, but apparently Orbi doesn't support that. Instead, you'll need to get the logs emailed to yourself on a daily basis.
Syslog capability forword logs to port 514 with RB... - NETGEAR Communities
Syslog from Orbi LBR20/RBR50 : orbi (reddit.com)
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TheDude started a topic Logging websites visited from my home network

13 June 2022, 07:53
Logging websites visited from my home network

Hi,

I have a broadband router sitting behind an Orbi mesh system - both systems maintain extremely limited logs.

Can anyone recommend a cheapish way for me to be able to maintain say a rolling month of logs and to be able to download logs so I can grep them?
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