How a team of entity maintainers monitors, connects and scores entities in Elastic Security
Elastic Security explains how background 'maintainer' jobs build user, host and service entities from raw logs and drive identity resolution and risk scoring.
Elastic Security Labs describes the internal background jobs, called maintainers, that each own one piece of every user, host and service record in Elastic Security. The maintainers construct entities from raw logs, resolve identities across sources and compute risk scores, and the write-up explains how the team keeps this entity machinery consistent.
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