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PRODUCTION · 2023

SOC Automation & Visualization

TheHive + Elasticsearch + Grafana + n8n

A dockerized SOC stack with n8n workflow orchestration — case management, detection backbone, and dashboards that small teams can stand up in under a day.

TheHiveElasticsearchGrafanan8nDocker

## Stack

TheHive for case management, Elasticsearch as the detection backbone, Grafana for attack visualization, and n8n as the workflow fabric tying everything to upstream alert sources.

## Why n8n over enterprise SOAR

Enterprise SOAR pricing kills small SOCs. n8n delivers 90% of the orchestration value at zero license cost, with workflows that engineers can read, version, and extend in Git.

## Workflows

n8n flows triage incoming alerts, enrich them with threat intel, open cases in TheHive, and notify the on-call channel — collapsing manual triage from minutes to seconds.

## Outcome

A reproducible SOC blueprint with a clear upgrade path toward enterprise SIEM tooling when scale demands it.