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To learn more about an alert, click the *View details* button from the Alerts table. This opens the alert details flyout, which helps you understand and manage the alert.
Use the alert details flyout to begin an investigation, open a case, or plan a response. Click **Take action** at the bottom of the flyout to find more options for interacting with the alert.
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The right panel provides an overview of the alert. Expand any of the collapsed sections to learn more about the alert. You can also hover over fields on the *Overview* and *Table* tabs to display available <<inline-actions, inline actions>>.
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image::images/alert-details-flyout-right-panel.png[Right panel of the alert details flyout, 65%]
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From the right panel, you can also:
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* Click **Expand details** to open the <<left-panel,left panel>>, which shows more information about sections in the right panel.
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Some areas in the flyout provide previews when you click on them. For example, clicking **Show rule summary** in the rule description displays a preview of the rule's details. To close the preview, click **Back** or **x**.
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[[left-panel]]
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=== Left panel
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The left panel provides an expanded view of what's shown in the right panel. To open the left panel, do one of the following:
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* Click **Expand details** at the top of the right panel.
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* Click one of the section titles on the **Overview** tab within the right panel.
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[[about-section]]
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== About
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The About section is located on the **Overview** tab in the right panel. It provides a brief description of the rule that's related to the alert and an explanation of what generated the alert.
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The About section has the following information:
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* **Rule description**: Describes the rule's purpose or detection goals. Click **Show rule summary** to display a preview of the rule's details. From the preview, click **Show rule details** to view the rule's details page.
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The Investigation section is located on the **Overview** tab in the right panel. It offers a couple of ways to begin investigating the alert.
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image::images/investigation-section-rp.png[Investigation section of the Overview tab, 65%]
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The Investigation section provides the following information:
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* **Investigation guide**: The **Show investigation guide** button displays if the rule associated with the alert has an investigation guide. Click the button to open the expanded Investigation view in the left panel.
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TIP: Add an <<add-ig-actions-rule,investigation guide>> to a rule when creating a new custom rule or modifying an existing custom rule's settings.
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* **Highlighted fields**: Shows relevant fields for the alert and any <<rule-ui-advanced-params,custom highlighted fields>> you added to the rule. Custom highlighted fields with values are added to this section. Those without values aren't added.
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* **Highlighted fields**: Shows relevant fields for the alert and any <<rule-ui-advanced-params,custom highlighted fields>> you added to the rule. Custom highlighted fields with values are added to this section. Those without values aren't added. To quickly add or remove custom highlighted fields from the rule, click the **Add field** in the Highlighted fields table.
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== Visualizations
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The Visualizations section is located on the **Overview** tab in the right panel. It offers a glimpse of the processes that led up to the alert and occurred after it.
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image::images/visualizations-section-rp.png[Visualizations section of the Overview tab, 65%]
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Click **Visualizations** to display the following previews:
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* **Session viewer preview**: Shows a preview of <<session-view,Session View>> data. Click **Session viewer preview** to open the **Session View** tab in Timeline.
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The **Visualize** tab allows you to maintain the context of the Alerts table, while providing a more detailed view of alerts that you're investigating in the event analyzer or Session View. To open the tab, click **Session viewer preview** or **Analyzer preview** from the right panel.
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As you examine the alert's related processes, you can also preview the alerts and events which are associated with those processes. Then, if you want to learn more about a particular alert or event, you can click **Show full alert details** to open the full details flyout.
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== Insights
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The Insights section is located on the **Overview** tab in the right panel. It offers different perspectives from which you can assess the alert. Click **Insights** to display overviews for <<entities-overview,related entities>>, <<threat-intelligence-overview,threat intelligence>>, <<correlations-overview,correlated data>>, and <<prevalence-overview,host and user prevalence>>.
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=== Entities
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The Entities overview provides high-level details about the user and host that are related to the alert. Host and user risk classifications are also available with a https://www.elastic.co/pricing[Platinum subscription] or higher.
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==== Expanded entities view
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From the right panel, click **Entities** to open a detailed view of the host and user associated with the alert. The expanded view also includes risk scores and classifications (if you have a Platinum subscription or higher) and activity on related hosts and users.
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The Threat intelligence overview shows matched indicators, which provide threat intelligence relevant to the alert.
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The Threat intelligence overview provides the following information:
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* **Threat match detected**: Only available when examining an alert generated from an <<create-indicator-rule,indicator match>> rule. Shows the number of matched indicators that are present in the alert document. Shows zero if there are no matched indicators or you're examining an alert generated by another type of rule.
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NOTE: The expanded threat intelligence view queries indices specified in the `securitySolution:defaultThreatIndex` advanced setting. Refer to <<update-threat-intel-indices, Update default Elastic Security threat intelligence indices>> to learn more about threat intelligence indices.
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The expanded Threat intelligence view shows individual indicators within the alert document. You can expand and collapse indicator details by clicking the arrow button at the end of the indicator label. Each indicator is labeled with values from the `matched.field` and `matched.atomic` fields and displays the threat intelligence provider.
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Matched threats are organized into two sections, described below. Within each section, matched threats are shown in reverse chronological order, with the most recent at the top. All mapped fields are displayed for each matched threat.
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The Correlations overview shows how an alert is related to other alerts and offers ways to investigate related alerts. Use this information to quickly find patterns between alerts and then take action.
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The Correlations overview provides the following information:
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The **Response** section is located on the **Overview** tab in the right panel. It shows <<rules-ui-create,response actions>> that were added to the rule associated with the alert. Click **Response** to display the response action's results in the left panel.
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The **Notes** tab (located in the left panel) shows all notes attached to the alert, in addition to the user who created them and when they were created. When you add a new note, the alert's summary also updates and shows how many notes are attached to the alert.
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