Security Automation with Elastic Workflows: From Alert to Response

Elastic Security Labs presents a practical guide to building intelligent, automated security playbooks with Elastic Workflows, designed to run inside Kibana and integrate directly with alerts, cases, and security data. The article walks through a full triage loop—from an alert firing to threat intel checks, context gathering with ES|QL, and automatic case creation and team notification—demonstrating how a workflow can run when an alert fires without external integrations.

It explains how workflows use triggers, steps and data flow, with examples such as a VirusTotal file-hash check, ES|QL queries for related alerts, and decision logic that closes false positives or proceeds to case creation and Slack notifications. AI capabilities are introduced to classify alerts, summarise case descriptions, and even drive agent-assisted investigations, while highlighting native data access and dozens of connectors for external systems. The piece notes that Elastic Workflows is available now, with further enhancements anticipated, and is dated 24 March 2026, authored by Tinsae Erkailo.