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Prebuilt rules

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Prebuilt rules

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The prepackaged endpoint is for retrieving rule statuses and loading Elastic prebuilt detection rules.

The Kibana Console supports only Elasticsearch APIs. You cannot interact with the Kibana APIs with the Console and must use curl or another HTTP tool instead. For more information, refer to Console.

Load prebuilt rules

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Loads and updates Elastic prebuilt rules.

By default, all loaded prebuilt rules are disabled.

Request URL

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PUT <kibana host>:<port>/api/detection_engine/rules/prepackaged

Example request

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PUT api/detection_engine/rules/prepackaged

Response code

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200: Indicates a successful call.

Response payload

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A JSON object listing the number of loaded and updated prebuilt rules.

Example response:

{
  "rules_installed": 112,
  "rules_updated": 0
}

Get rule status

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Returns rule statuses.

Request URL

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GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/detection_engine/rules/prepackaged/_status

Example request

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GET api/detection_engine/rules/prepackaged/_status

Response code

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200: Indicates a successful call.

Response payload

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A JSON object listing rule statuses.

Example response:

{
  "rules_custom_installed": 0,
  "rules_installed": 0,
  "rules_not_installed": 112,
  "rules_not_updated": 0
}

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