Elastic Security UI

The Elastic Security app is a highly interactive workspace designed for security analysts that provides a clear overview of events and alerts from your environment. 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:

The Getting started page guides you to integrations that you can use to monitor your hosts and ingest data. Other Elastic Security app pages that show event data (for example, the Hosts and Network pages) display the getting started prompt until event data has been ingested.

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. To focus on areas of interest in time-based histograms, select a region to reflect a date range, or select a preset value in the timepicker. In the Stack by dropdown, you can select specific parameters to visualize individual counts. For example, in the Detection alert trend histogram, stack by kibana.alert.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 on the Overview page provides a streamlined way to collect threat intelligence data for threat detection and matching.

The view shows the total number of ingested threat indicators, enabled threat intelligence sources, and ingested threat indicators per source. To visualize the ingested threat indicator data, click the Source link for a threat intelligence source.

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

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

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

The Hosts page provides key metrics for host-related security events and a set of interactive data tables. Refer to Hosts page for more information.

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

The Users page provides a comprehensive overview of user data to help you understand authentication and user behavior within your environment. Refer to Users page 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. Refer to 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. Refer to Cases for more information.

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

The Policies page lists all of the integration policies configured for Endpoint Security. Refer to Policies for more information.

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

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

The Host isolation exceptions page allows you to specify IP addresses that allow communication with isolated hosts, even when blocked from the rest of your network. Refer to Host isolation exceptions for more information.

The Blocklist page allows you to prevent specified applications from running on hosts, extending the list of processes that Endpoint Security considers malicious. Refer to Blocklist 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 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: