Native automation where your security data lives

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. No separate SOAR tool to buy, integrate, or maintain.

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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 separate 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.

Full lifecycle automation
Automate detection, triage, enrichment, escalation, and response natively. From high-frequency alert triage to complex logic, Workflows execute exactly as defined every time with enterprise-scale reliability.
AI-assisted triage and reasoning
Through bi-directional integration with Elastic Agent Builder, Workflows can call on AI agents when a task requires reasoning. Agents assess alerts, gather additional context, and return structured findings that inform the next steps. Agents dynamically load domain-specific reasoning on demand, keeping triage fast and accurate at scale.
Broad connector ecosystem
Workflows connects directly to Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, VirusTotal, AWS Lambda, and more, synchronizing context and triggering response actions across your security stack from a single point of control. Any REST API is reachable via the HTTP connector.
Flexible triggers
Workflows run automatically when detection rules fire, on a schedule, or via external webhook. Analysts can also trigger Workflows on demand from alerts, attacks, and cases.
Automation as code
Manage your security automation with the same rigor as your detection rules. YAML-based authoring makes Workflows portable, versionable, and reviewable. Prebuilt security templates are available on GitHub.

"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.