Elastic Security External Alerts

Last updated 19 days ago on 2025-08-05

Created 24 days ago on 2025-07-31

About

Generates a detection alert for each Elastic Security alert written to the configured indices. Enabling this rule allows you to immediately begin investigating Elastic Security alerts in the app.

Tags: Data Source: Elastic SecurityUse Case: Threat DetectionPromotion: External AlertsLanguage: kuery
Severity: medium
Risk Score: 47
License: Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type: Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack: Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns: logs-elastic_security.alert-*
Related Integrations: elastic_security(opens in a new tab or window)
Query

event.kind: alert and data_stream.dataset: elastic_security.alert

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Elastic Security External Alerts in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).