G2

Sushant S.

Cybersecurity Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/29/2026

"Elastic Security: Rapid Triage, Smart Filtering, and Powerful Threat Hunting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Security?

Elastic Security is a top-tier choice for SOC analysts, offering rapid alert triage and smart filtering to easily separate true threats from noise. It features granular timelines that provide full investigation context, tracking process trees and connections in a single pane. The platform leverages standardized, enriched logs via the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) to unify disparate telemetry. High-speed query engines like KQL and ES|QL enable fast searches and advanced threat hunting across massive datasets without performance drops. Additionally, its out-of-the-box detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK streamline detection engineering, though occasional timeline-loading glitches remain a minor drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Security?

Occasional Timeline Freezes: When pulling wide timeframes or dealing with dense event clusters, the graphical timeline view can hang, stutter, or fail to load completely, forcing analysts to fall back to raw Discover queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elastic Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Elastic Security solves the problem of log fragmentation and slow query speeds by bringing massive volumes of endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry into a single, lightning-fast platform. For my day-to-day workflow, this benefits me by cutting down alert noise, allowing me to pivot instantly through large datasets using KQL and ES|QL, and mapping attacks directly to MITRE ATT&CK, ultimately helping me detect, investigate, and close out true threats much faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.