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# Objective:

You can use open-source tools to monitor network traffic from Amazon EC2 instances. In this activity we will briefly go over how to use Suricata. For more information see the [Suricata website](https://suricata-ids.org/).

* We will build on top of previous activity: [Setup VPC Traffic Mirroring](/030_module1/)
* Suricata is already installed on the destination instance
* We will configure http rule on Suricata.
* From client we will initiate port 80 (http) traffic and look at the logs to see http rule being triggered.