External Alerts

Generates a detection alert for each external alert written to the configured indices. Enabling this rule allows you to immediately begin investigating external alerts in the app.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

apm--transaction
traces-apm*
auditbeat-*
filebeat-*
logs-*
packetbeat-*
winlogbeat-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 10000

Tags:

Elastic
Network
Windows
APM
macOS
Linux

Version: 4 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.kind:alert and not event.module:(endgame or endpoint)

Rule version history

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Version 4 (7.14.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

event.kind:alert and not event.module:(endgame or endpoint)

Version 3 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

Formatting only

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