siem-quickstart

To set up SIEM log monitoring, this Skill guides you through discovering telemetry sources, provisioning an Elastic Cloud or on-prem deployment, enrolling Elastic Agents, and validating detection rules. You receive step-by-step provisioning and configuration guidance to establish monitoring quickly.

Discovering existing security telemetry sources involves running an automated assessment to detect Endpoint, Auditbeat, cloud logs, and network data. This process produces a security posture summary, allowing you to identify coverage gaps and ensure proper ingestion before deploying Elastic Agent.

Yes, you can use Beats instead of Elastic Agent. The Skill provides integration and validation steps for both Beats and Elastic Agent installations, ensuring you can configure data ingestion and validate enrollment regardless of the specific agent technology chosen.

Configuring and tuning detection rules in Kibana for cloud log integrations is achieved via Kibana APIs. The Skill walks you through enabling core detection rules and tuning exceptions based on your security posture summary to verify alerting and address coverage gaps.

This SIEM quickstart supports both Elastic Cloud and on-prem Docker stack deployments. It provides provisioning guidance to create a Cloud project or set up Docker locally, ensuring Security features and Fleet are enabled for your specific environment.

You need to re-run discovery after configuring detection rules to verify data ingestion and confirm alerting works correctly. This validation step produces an updated security posture summary, ensuring your Elastic Security deployment actively detects endpoint and network threats.