The daily loop
An alert fires. You open it. You read through the details. You gather context from the surrounding activity. You check for related signals across your environment. You decide what it means and what to do next. Sometimes you escalate. Sometimes you close it and move on.
You do this dozens of times a day. The steps are almost always the same. The data you need is already in your SIEM....
This article presents Elastic Workflows as a solution to the repetitive, manual nature of security operations, positioning it as a native automation tool within the Elastic ecosystem. The strongest version of this narrative highlights genuine pain points in SOC workflows—analysts spending excessive time on routine triage—and offers a technically sound response by embedding automation directly into the SIEM. The integration of AI for classification, summarization, and investigation is particularl...