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Get started with Elastic Security

Serverless Security Stack

New to Elastic Security? Follow the instructions in this topic to get started. Then, review the rest of the Get Started section to learn how to use the UI, review requirements, and discover more about our security features.

  1. Choose your deployment type

    Elastic provides several self-managed and Elastic-managed options. For simplicity and speed, we recommend Elastic Security Serverless, which enables you to run Elastic Security in a fully managed environment so you don’t have to manage the underlying Elasticsearch cluster and Kibana instances.

    Create an Elastic Security Serverless project

    There are two options to create serverless projects:

    Note

    You need the admin predefined role or an equivalent custom role to create projects. For more information, refer to User roles and privileges.

    After you've created your project, you're ready to move on to the next step.

    Alternatively, if you prefer a self-managed deployment, you can create a local development installation in Docker:

    curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh

    Check out the complete list of deployment types to learn more.

  2. Ingest your data

    After you've deployed Elastic Security, the next step is to get data into the product before you can search, analyze, or use any visualization tools. The easiest way to get data into Elastic Security is through one of our hundreds of ready-made integrations. You can add an integration directly from the Get Started page within the Ingest your data section:

    1. At the top of the page, click Set up Security.
    2. In the Ingest your data section, click Add data with integrations.
    3. Choose from one of our recommended integrations, or select another tab to browse by category.
    Ingest data

    Elastic also provides different ingestion methods to meet your infrastructure needs.

    Tip

    If you have data from a source that doesn't yet have an integration, you can use Automatic Import to create one using AI.

  3. Get started with your use case

    Not sure where to start exploring Elastic Security or which features may be relevant to you? Continue to the next topic to view our quickstart guides, each of which is tailored to a specific use case and helps you complete a core task so you can get up and running.

Use these resources to learn more about Elastic Security or get started in a different way.