- Lab
- Security

Custom Detection Rules and Automating Alerts in Elastic Stack
In this lab, you’ll practice creating automated detection and alerting rules in Elastic Stack. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to deploy automated detection and alerting functionality using Elastic Stack.

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Table of Contents
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Creating Detection Rules with Elastic Stack
To start, you will learn how to create detection rules in Elastic Stack to detect malicious activities.
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Detecting a Live Security Incident
In this challenge you will test that the rule you created can detect a live security incident.
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Configure Automated Alerting
To finish up, you will go over how to create automated alerting and notifications that can notify stakeholders when an attack is detected.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.