External Alerts

Last updated 14 days ago on 2025-03-21

Created 5 years ago on 2020-07-08

About

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

Tags: OS: WindowsData Source: APMOS: macOSOS: LinuxLanguage: 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: apm-*-transaction*traces-apm*auditbeat-*filebeat-*logs-*packetbeat-*winlogbeat-*
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Query

event.kind:alert and not event.module:(endgame or endpoint or cloud_defend)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect 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).