The Engineer's Guide to Elastic Detections as Code

This post announces Elastic Security’s Detections as Code (DaC) capabilities reaching general availability, detailing enhancements to the open-source detection-rules repository such as granular export filters, custom folder structures with local rule-loading, preservation of local dates, improved auto schema generation, and CI/CD integration examples (e.g., GitLab). It also provides guidance on custom unit tests to enforce organizational standards (like team tags) and explains how to manage custom schemas for validation, enabling users to version, test, and deploy detection rules consistently across environments.