Elastic Security UI

The Elastic Security app is a highly interactive workspace designed for security analysts. It provides a clear overview of events and alerts from your environment, and you can use the interactive UI to drill down into areas of interest.

Filter for alerts, events, processes, and other important security data with the benefit of Kibana Query Language (KQL) in the Search bar, which appears at the top of each page throughout the app. A date/time filter set to Last 24 hours is enabled by default, but can be changed to any time range. If you want to filter your search results with other fields, select Add Filter, followed by the field from which to filter and the operator (such is not or is between) for your query.

To save specific filters and queries, click the Save button, then Save current query.

The Elastic Security app contains the following pages that enable analysts to view, analyze, and manage security data:

Pages are grouped into four main sections within the navigation pane — Detect, Explore, Investigate, and Manage. Each section supports a different part of your workflow and describes actions you can perform in the Elastic Security app.

From the Detect section, you can access pages that allow you to view, create, and manage alerts, rules, and rule exceptions.

Under Explore, you access pages that provide key metrics about your hosts and networks.

The Investigate section gives you access to timelines and cases.

Pages under the Manage section allow to view and manage hosts that are running Endpoint Security. You can also view and manage trusted applications and event filters from pages in this section.

The Overview page provides a high-level snapshot view of detections, external alerts, and event trends. These trends are useful to assess overall system health and find anomalies that may require further investigation.

From the live feed on the Overview page, you can quickly access recently created cases, favorited timelines, and the latest Elastic Security news.

Histograms

Time-based histograms show you the number of detections, alerts, and events that have occurred within the selected time range. You can select areas of interest in time-based histograms by selecting a region to reflect a date range, or by selecting a preset value in the timepicker. In the Stack by dropdown, you can select specific parameters for which to visualize the individual counts. For example, in the Detection alert trend histogram, stack by signal.rule.name to display the total counts by alert name within the specified time frame.

Host and network events

View event and host counts specific to Elastic data shippers and apps, such as Auditbeats or Elastic Endpoint Security. Expand each category to view specific counts of hosts or network events related to the selected category.

Threat Intelligence

The Threat Intelligence view shows the total number of threat indicator events collected by the Threat Intel Filebeat module. This module ingests, parses, and visualizes data from several open source threat feeds to provide you with relevant and timely threat intelligence. As a security analyst, you can use this data in a variety of ways. For example, you can reference this data while building new threat indicator match rules or triaging alerts. Or, you use it to assess the robustness of your organization’s security controls and make suggestions for improvements. Regardless of your goal, the Threat Intel Filebeat module offers you timely and actionable threat intelligence that you can leverage for your, or your organization’s, detection and prevention needs.

To open a full view of the Threat Intel Filebeat module, click View dashboard. To further inspect data from the ingested threat intelligence sources, click View source dashboard for the appropriate source.

There are a few scenarios when data won’t display in the Threat Intelligence view:

The Alerts page allows you to view and manage all alerts to monitor activity within your network. See Detections and Alerts for more information.

The Rules page allows you to view and manage all detection rules. See Manage detection rules for more information about prebuilt and custom rules.

The Exceptions page allows you to view and manage all rule exceptions. See Rule exceptions and value lists for more information about rule exceptions.

The Hosts view provides key metrics regarding host-related security events, and a set of data tables that let you interact with Timeline. See Hosts page overview for more information.

The Network page provides key network activity metrics via an interactive map and network event tables that enable interaction with Timeline. See Network page overview for more information.

Use the Timelines page to investigate alerts and complex threats, such as lateral movement of malware across hosts in your network. Timelines are responsive and allow you to share your findings among other team members. See Investigate events in Timeline for information about getting started with Timelines.

The Cases page is used to open and track security issues directly in the Elastic Security app. See Cases for more information.

The Endpoints page allows you to view and manage hosts that are running Endpoint Security. See Endpoints for more information.

The Trusted applications page allows you to add Windows, macOS, and Linux applications that should be trusted. See Trusted applications for more information.

The Event filters page allows filter endpoint events that you do not need or want stored in Elasticsearch. See Event filters for more information.

Accessibility features, such as keyboard focus and screen reader support, are built into the Elastic Security UI. These features offer additional ways for you to navigate the UI and interact with the application.

Use your keyboard to interact with draggable elements in the Elastic Security UI:

Use your keyboard to navigate through rows, columns, and menu options in the Elastic Security UI: