Alerts and findings APIs

Alerts and findings APIs

The following APIs can be used for tasks related to alerts and findings.

Get Alerts

Provides an option for retrieving alerts related to a specific detector type or detector ID.

Parameters

You can specify the following parameters when requesting an alert.

Parameter	Description
`detectorId`	The ID of the detector used to fetch alerts. Optional when the `detectorType` is specified. Otherwise required.
`detectorType`	The type of detector used to fetch alerts. Optional when the `detectorId` is specified. Otherwise required.
`severityLevel`	Used to filter by alert severity level. Optional.
`alertState`	Used to filter by alert state. Possible values: ACTIVE, ACKNOWLEDGED, COMPLETED, ERROR, DELETED. Optional.
`sortString`	This field specifies which string Security Analytics uses to sort the alerts. Optional.
`sortOrder`	The order used to sort the list of findings, either `ascending` or `descending`. Optional.
`missing`	A list of fields for which there are no found alias mappings. Optional.
`size`	An optional limit for the maximum number of results returned in the response. Optional.
`startIndex`	The pagination indicator. Optional.
`searchString`	The alert attribute you want returned in the search. Optional.

Example request

GET /_plugins/_security_analytics/alerts?detectorType=windows

Example response

{
    "alerts": [{
        "detector_id": "detector_12345",
        "id": "alert_id_1",
        "version": -3,
        "schema_version": 0,
        "trigger_id": "trigger_id_1",
        "trigger_name": "my_trigger",
        "finding_ids": ["finding_id_1"],
        "related_doc_ids": ["docId1"],
        "state": "ACTIVE",
        "error_message": null,
        "alert_history": [],
        "severity": null,
        "action_execution_results": [{
            "action_id": "action_id_1",
            "last_execution_time": 1665693544996,
            "throttled_count": 0
        }],
        "start_time": "2022-10-13T20:39:04.995023Z",
        "last_notification_time": "2022-10-13T20:39:04.995028Z",
        "end_time": "2022-10-13T20:39:04.995027Z",
        "acknowledged_time": "2022-10-13T20:39:04.995028Z"
    }],
    "total_alerts": 1,
    "detectorType": "windows"
}

Response fields

Alerts persist until you resolve the root cause and have the following states:

State	Description
`ACTIVE`	The alert is ongoing and unacknowledged. Alerts remain in this state until you acknowledge them, delete the trigger associated with the alert, or delete the monitor entirely.
`ACKNOWLEDGED`	Someone has acknowledged the alert but not fixed the root cause.
`COMPLETED`	The alert is no longer ongoing. Alerts enter this state after the corresponding trigger evaluates to false.
`ERROR`	An error occurred while executing the trigger. This error is usually the result of a bad trigger or destination.
`DELETED`	Someone deleted the detector or trigger associated with this alert while the alert was ongoing.

Acknowledge Alerts

Example request

POST /_plugins/_security_analytics/<detector_id>/_acknowledge/alerts
{"alerts":["4dc7f5a9-2c82-4786-81ca-433a209d5205"]}

Example response

{
  "acknowledged": [
    {
      "detector_id": "8YT5fYQBZ8IUM4axics6",
      "id": "4dc7f5a9-2c82-4786-81ca-433a209d5205",
      "version": 1,
      "schema_version": 4,
      "trigger_id": "1TP5fYQBMkkIGY6Pg-q8",
      "trigger_name": "test-trigger",
      "finding_ids": [
        "2e167f4b-8063-40ef-80f8-2afd9bf095b8"
      ],
      "related_doc_ids": [
        "1|windows"
      ],
      "state": "ACTIVE",
      "error_message": null,
      "alert_history": [],
      "severity": "1",
      "action_execution_results": [
        {
          "action_id": "BopdoIJKXd",
          "last_execution_time": 1668560817925,
          "throttled_count": 0
        }
      ],
      "start_time": "2022-11-16T01:06:57.748Z",
      "last_notification_time": "2022-11-16T01:06:57.748Z",
      "end_time": null,
      "acknowledged_time": null
    }
  ],
  "failed": [],
  "missing": []
}

Get Findings

The Get findings API based on detector attributes.

Example request

GET /_plugins/_security_analytics/findings/_search?*detectorType*=
{
    "total_findings":2,
    "findings":[
       {
            "detectorId":"12345",
            "id":"2b9663f4-ae77-4df8-b84f-688a0195723b",
            "related_doc_ids":[
                "5"
            ],
            "index":"sbwhrzgdlg",
            "queries":[
                {
                    "id":"f1bff160-587b-4500-b60c-ab22c7abc652",
                    "name":"3",
                    "query":"test_field:\"us-west-2\"",
                    "tags":[
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "timestamp":1664401088804,
            "document_list":[
                {
                    "index":"sbwhrzgdlg",
                    "id":"5",
                    "found":true,
                    "document":"{\n            \"message\" : \"This is an error from IAD region\",\n            \"test_strict_date_time\" : \"2022-09-28T21:38:02.888Z\",\n            \"test_field\" : \"us-west-2\"\n        }"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "detectorId":"12345",
            "id":"f43a2701-0ef5-4931-8254-bdf510f73952",
            "related_doc_ids":[
                "1"
            ],
            "index":"sbwhrzgdlg",
            "queries":[
                {
                    "id":"f1bff160-587b-4500-b60c-ab22c7abc652",
                    "name":"3",
                    "query":"test_field:\"us-west-2\"",
                    "tags":[
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "timestamp":1664401088746,
            "document_list":[
                {
                    "index":"sbwhrzgdlg",
                    "id":"1",
                    "found":true,
                    "document":"{\n            \"message\" : \"This is an error from IAD region\",\n            \"test_strict_date_time\" : \"2022-09-28T21:38:02.888Z\",\n            \"test_field\" : \"us-west-2\"\n        }"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}