SIEM Readiness: Visibility Health & Data Coverage

**SIEM Readiness: Visibility Health & Data Coverage**

**Value proposition**

Elastic Security users ingest logs, enable rules, and deploy agents — but today there is no single place to answer: "Is my SIEM actually ready to detect threats?"

SOC teams maintain spreadsheets, build custom dashboards, and manually reconcile data sources against detection rules — only to discover gaps during audits or live incidents.

SIEM Readiness introduces a centralized, actionable health view inside Elastic Security that continuously evaluates whether you have the right data, in the right shape, with sufficient reliability and retention to support your active detections.

**Expected outcome**

A new SIEM Readiness page in Elastic Security that provides at-a-glance health across four dimensions:

**Coverage** — Are the data sources your detection rules depend on actually present? Which log categories (Endpoint, Identity, Network, Cloud, Application/SaaS) are covered vs. missing?
**Quality** — Are your logs ECS-compatible? Surface data sources with field mapping issues that silently break rules, dashboards, and correlations.
**Continuity** — Are your ingest pipelines healthy? Detect pipeline failures before they create blind spots.
**Retention** — Do your lifecycle policies meet industry benchmarks (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001)? Flag categories falling short of recommended retention windows.
Every signal is tied to a guided action: view affected integrations, investigate in Discover, adjust policies, or generate a prefilled case to assign remediation to the right team.

**Optional: Key user stories / use cases**

- As a SOC Manager, I want a single readiness view that shows whether my SIEM has the right data for my detections, so I can report operational posture to leadership without maintaining spreadsheets.

- As a Detection Engineer, I want to see which enabled rules are missing required data sources (mapped by MITRE ATT&CK tactic), so I can prioritize onboarding the data that matters most.

- As a Platform Engineer, I want to know which ingest pipelines are failing and which data streams have ECS incompatibilities, so I can fix issues before they impact detections.

- As a Compliance Manager, I want to verify that log retention meets regulatory benchmarks across all categories, so I can prepare for audits without manual data collection.