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Inside Elastic’s agentic SOC

Elastic’s InfoSec team triages every alert with AI agents before an analyst opens it. Here’s the pipeline, what it costs, and how they cut the LLM calls.

Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: cutting alert triage from 30 minutes to under 3
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Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: cutting alert triage from 30 minutes to under 3

Elastic's InfoSec team built AI agents on Elastic Workflows that investigate every alert and assemble the case before an analyst ever opens it.

Aaron Jewitt
Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: When to inline your agent's skills for a 5× cost reduction
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Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: When to inline your agent's skills for a 5× cost reduction

We tested two agentic SOC architectures in parallel across 36,822 real Agent Builder conversations. One won by 5.7x: a specialized workflow triaging alerts for $0.69 each, against $3.42 for a single agent juggling 14 Skills. The data and the decision framework are both below.

Aaron Jewitt
Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: How we cut AI agent LLM calls by 60%
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Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: How we cut AI agent LLM calls by 60%

We run fourteen AI agents that triage Elastic InfoSec alerts. They were taking 19 LLM calls to do work that needed 8. Here's the five-step optimization loop we run across the fleet, plus the prompt template you can use with any AI assistant.

Aaron Jewitt