SOAR built into Elastic Security. No stand-alone tool to buy, integrate, or maintain.

Elastic Workflows brings automation directly into Elastic Security, an agentic security operations platform. You can use playbooks to handle defined tasks with consistency and reliability, while AI agents step in to reason through investigations that fall outside your standard scripts.

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    From the automation tax to native Workflows, read how Elastic Workflows makes standalone SOAR obsolete for security teams.

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One engine for alert triage and AI investigation

Playbooks handle enrichment, escalation, and response. AI agents reason when investigations go off-script. Both run where your security data lives.

Differentiators

Elastic Workflows: End the automation tax

Standalone SOAR forces you to buy a separate tool, build brittle integrations, and move data between systems just to act on what your SIEM already knows. Elastic Workflows eliminates that tax. Automation runs natively inside Elastic Security with direct access to your alerts, cases, and security data.

  • Native Automation

    End the automation tax

    Automation is native to Elastic Security. No stand-alone SOAR tool to buy, and no brittle integrations to build or maintain.

  • Direct Data Access

    Context without integration

    Stop moving data between systems just to act on what your SIEM already knows. Workflows runs inside Elastic Security with direct access to alerts, cases, and security data. Richer context, faster execution.

  • Intelligent Automation

    Reliability meets reasoning

    A single Workflow combines playbook steps with AI reasoning. Defined tasks execute with predictable consistency. When investigations require judgment, AI agents reason through the complexity.

  • AI Agents that act

    From investigation to action

    Workflows gives agents the ability to execute real actions: isolating hosts, querying threat intel, escalating incidents. Built on the Elasticsearch data and AI platform, agents reason with superior context, delivering more accurate results. Every step is fully visible.

AUTOMATE THE SOC

From alert to response in Elastic Security

Automate the work your analysts repeat daily and investigate the unknown, all without leaving the platform.

"Using Workflows enabled our SOC to spend so much more time on the things that matter. On a daily basis, we ran through 500 alerts, spending 3 hours creating cases and enriching them manually. Using Workflows, this is all done automatically, saving up to 2.5 hours a day."

SOC leader, European government agency

Built in vs. bolted on

Elastic Workflows delivers native automation built directly into Elastic Security, an agentic security operations platform. By bringing automation to where your security data lives, Workflows eliminates the need for separate tools, brittle integrations, and unnecessary data movement.

Elastic Workflows
Stand-alone SOAR solutions
Data architecture
Automation runs where your security data already lives. Get direct access to alerts, cases, and security data — no data movement, no credentials to manage, and no integration to build.
Operates as a separate system. Data must be pulled out of the SIEM over APIs to perform automation. Every connection is a potential point of failure requiring constant maintenance.
Operational cost
Automation is native to Elastic Security. There's no separate tool to purchase, no implementation project, and no additional vendor to manage. Start automating with an included allocation of Workflow executions.
Requires a separate product purchase, a new contract, dedicated implementation resources, and ongoing maintenance of integrations across your stack.
Scripted automation and AI reasoning
A single workflow combines playbook steps with AI reasoning. Defined tasks execute with predictable reliability. When investigations require judgment, AI agents reason through the complexity. No forced trade-off.
Teams are forced to choose between static playbooks that break when investigations deviate from the predefined path and AI tools that offer reasoning but lack reliable execution.
AI capabilities
Workflows gives agents the ability to execute real actions: isolating hosts, querying threat intel, escalating incidents. Built on the Elasticsearch data and AI platform, agents reason with superior context, delivering more accurate results. Every action and reasoning step is fully visible.
AI operates as an external add-on with limited context. To reason through an investigation, the AI must fetch data over an API, limiting accuracy and scope. Most AI tools can reason but cannot reliably execute response actions.
Time to value
Accessible to Tier 1–2 analysts from day one. No external systems to wire up. YAML-based authoring is similar to writing detection rules. Prebuilt security templates are available on GitHub.
Requires dedicated engineering resources, heavy scripting, and long deployment cycles before automation is operational.
Data architecture
Operational cost
Scripted automation and AI reasoning
AI capabilities
Time to value
Elastic Workflows
Stand-alone SOAR solutions
Automation runs where your security data already lives. Get direct access to alerts, cases, and security data — no data movement, no credentials to manage, and no integration to build.
Operates as a separate system. Data must be pulled out of the SIEM over APIs to perform automation. Every connection is a potential point of failure requiring constant maintenance.
Automation is native to Elastic Security. There's no separate tool to purchase, no implementation project, and no additional vendor to manage. Start automating with an included allocation of Workflow executions.
Requires a separate product purchase, a new contract, dedicated implementation resources, and ongoing maintenance of integrations across your stack.
A single workflow combines playbook steps with AI reasoning. Defined tasks execute with predictable reliability. When investigations require judgment, AI agents reason through the complexity. No forced trade-off.
Teams are forced to choose between static playbooks that break when investigations deviate from the predefined path and AI tools that offer reasoning but lack reliable execution.
Workflows gives agents the ability to execute real actions: isolating hosts, querying threat intel, escalating incidents. Built on the Elasticsearch data and AI platform, agents reason with superior context, delivering more accurate results. Every action and reasoning step is fully visible.
AI operates as an external add-on with limited context. To reason through an investigation, the AI must fetch data over an API, limiting accuracy and scope. Most AI tools can reason but cannot reliably execute response actions.
Accessible to Tier 1–2 analysts from day one. No external systems to wire up. YAML-based authoring is similar to writing detection rules. Prebuilt security templates are available on GitHub.
Requires dedicated engineering resources, heavy scripting, and long deployment cycles before automation is operational.

Getting started

Everything you need to start building intelligent Workflows

Find the tools, tutorials, and technical insights you need to launch your first Workflow and scale your automation.

Frequently asked questions

What is Elastic Workflows?

Elastic Workflows is native security automation built directly into Elastic Security. It eliminates the need for a stand-alone SOAR platform by running automation where your security data already lives, with direct access to alerts, cases, and investigation data. No separate integrations required.

Do you need a SOAR platform if you already use Elastic Security?

No. Elastic Workflows includes the automation capabilities a standalone SOAR provides, natively within Elastic Security. Alert triage, enrichment, case management, and response actions all run where your security data lives. Teams already using Elastic Security can start building Workflows without additional tooling.

Is Elastic Workflows a full replacement for a SOAR platform?

For security operations running inside Elastic Security, yes. Workflows automates the full lifecycle: detection, triage, enrichment, escalation, and response. Teams that rely on a separate SOAR for cross-platform orchestration across non-Elastic systems can run both, with automation that touches Elastic data moving natively into Workflows.

Can Elastic Workflows work with my existing SOAR platform?

Yes. Elastic Workflows is designed to coexist with existing SOAR investments. Automation that touches Elastic data moves natively into Workflows. Cross-platform orchestration across non-Elastic systems can remain in your existing SOAR.

Why are organizations moving away from stand-alone SOAR platforms?

Stand-alone SOAR platforms require a separate purchase, dedicated engineering to build and maintain integrations, and constant data movement between systems. When alert volume rises or investigations go off-script, those integrations break. Organizations are consolidating automation into their SIEM to reduce complexity and close the gap between detection and response.

What is the "automation tax" Elastic Workflows eliminates?

The automation tax is the hidden cost of running a separate SOAR alongside your SIEM: extra vendor contracts, brittle integrations, and data that has to be pulled out of your SIEM before automation can act on it. Each step adds time an adversary is already using. Elastic Workflows eliminates that overhead by running natively inside Elastic Security.

What types of security operations can Elastic Workflows automate?

Workflows handles the full lifecycle: proactive threat intel monitoring and IOC sweeps ahead of any alert; alert triage and enrichment when alerts fire; and case management, escalation, and response actions including host isolation once a threat is confirmed. AI agents can be invoked as steps within a Workflow, gathering context, reasoning over findings, and presenting conclusions for analyst approval before action executes. Connects to Slack, Jira, VirusTotal, PagerDuty, AWS, and any REST API.

How long does it take to deploy Elastic Workflows?

Teams already using Elastic Security can start immediately. No external systems to connect, no implementation project. Workflows uses YAML-based authoring, similar to writing detection rules, and prebuilt security templates are available on GitHub. Most teams run their first Workflow on day one.

Is Elastic Workflows available now and what does it cost?

Elastic Workflows is generally available in version 9.4. It is available with an Enterprise license on Elastic Cloud Hosted and self-managed deployments, and with the Complete tier on Elastic Cloud Serverless for Security. Pricing is execution-based with a monthly baseline allocation included. See full pricing details.