Detection as Code

Elastic estate: ranking

A team running Elastic Security that keeps rules as TOML in the detection-rules repository, or wants to, and cares most about knowing which rules are noisy or failing.

How this ranking is weighted

Only products that name Elastic as a target are kept: Elastic itself, Anvilogic (deploys to Elastic, vendor claim), Detecteam (lists Elastic Security as a target, vendor claim) and Sigma and pySigma (an Elasticsearch backend that converts to Lucene, ES|QL and EQL). Rule health carries the heaviest weight (22), with git and CI at 20 and the library at 10 because Elastic's prebuilt rules come with a published monthly score. The result is Elastic Security 7.77, Anvilogic 5.47, Sigma and pySigma 5.24, Detecteam 5.22. The three add-ons are inside a 0.25 band of each other. Elastic's own scoring and Rule Monitoring tab are what the add-ons have to beat, and none of them documents either. The scores are the same eight criterion scores as the main rubric; only the weights change.

Weights for this buyer type against the site weights, in percent.

CriterionSite weightThis ranking
Rule languages and conversion paths1510.0
Git-native workflow and CI/CD1820.0
Testing1515.0
Coverage analytics1210.0
Rule health1822.0
Versioning and rollback88.0
Content library size and freshness810.0
Pricing transparency65.0

The ranking for elastic estate

Elastic estate ranking, totals out of 10 with the main rubric total beside each.

#PlatformThis rankingBandMain rubric
1Microsoft Sentinel7.87band A7.81
2Elastic Security7.77band A7.60
3Google Security Operations6.956.83
4Panther6.20band B6.31
5Splunk Enterprise Security (Cisco)6.20band B6.21
6Anvilogic5.47band C5.48
7Sigma and pySigma5.24band C5.50
8Detecteam5.22band C5.26
9SOC Prime4.885.11
10Mate Security4.063.98
11Hunters3.46band D3.44
12Sekoia.io3.43band D3.46

Mate Security ranks tenth of 12 under these weights. That is where the published evidence puts it for this buyer; where it is behind, the profile says so.

Other buyer types: Microsoft Sentinel estate, Splunk estate, Google SecOps estate, A team starting detection as code from scratch with Sigma.