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SOC Efficiency Metrics

Summarizes CrowdStrike Falcon detections across hosts, showing key lifecycle metrics such as tactic, technique, severity, detection state, and resolution time. Useful for SOC performance tracking, identifying detection patterns, and monitoring time-to-close for incidents.

CQL · Falcon Next-Gen SIEMCopy query
// Get events of interest
#repo=detections 
| in(field="ExternalApiType", values=[Event_UserActivityAuditEvent, Event_EppDetectionSummaryEvent])

// Unify detection UUID
| detectID:=Attributes.composite_id | detectID:=CompositeId

// Based on event type, set the timestamp value for later calculations.
| case{
ExternalApiType=Event_UserActivityAuditEvent Attributes.update_status=closed | response_time:=@timestamp;
ExternalApiType=Event_UserActivityAuditEvent Attributes.assign_to_user_id=* | assign_time:=@timestamp;
ExternalApiType=Event_EppDetectionSummaryEvent | detect_time:=@timestamp;
}

// Perform aggregation against detectID to get required values
| groupBy([detectID], function=([count(ExternalApiType, distinct=true), selectLast([Hostname, Attributes.update_status]), max(Severity, as=Severity), collect([Tactic, Technique, FalconHostLink, Attributes.add_tag]), min(detect_time, as=FirstDetect), min(assign_time, as=FirstAssign), min(response_time, as=ResolvedTime)]), limit=200000)

// Check to make sure Hostname value is not null; makes sure there isn't only a detection update event.
| Hostname=*

// This handles when an alert was closed and then reopened
| case{
Attributes.update_status!=closed | ResolvedTime:="";
*;
}

// Calculate durations
| ToAssign:=(FirstAssign-FirstDetect) | ToAssign:=formatDuration(field=ToAssign, precision=3)
| AssignToClose:=(ResolvedTime-FirstAssign) | AssignToClose:=formatDuration(field=AssignToClose, precision=3)
| DetectToClose:=(ResolvedTime-FirstDetect) | DetectToClose:=formatDuration(field=DetectToClose, precision=3)

// Calculate the age of open alerts
| case{
    Attributes.update_status!="closed" | Aging:=now()-FirstDetect | Aging:=formatDuration(Aging, precision=2);
    *;
}

// Set default value for field Attributes.update_status; seeing some null values and not sure why
| default(value="new", field=[Attributes.update_status])
| default(value="-", field=[FirstAssign, ResolvedTime, ToAssign, AssignToClose, DetectToClose, Aging, Tags], replaceEmpty=true)


// Format timestamps out of epoch
| FirstDetect:=formatTime(format="%F %T", field="FirstDetect")
| FirstAssign:=formatTime(format="%F %T", field="FirstAssign")
| ResolvedTime:=formatTime(format="%F %T", field="ResolvedTime")

// Create hyperlink to detection
| format("[Detection Link](%s)", field=[FalconHostLink], as="Detection Link")

// Drop uneeded fields
| drop([detectID, _count, FalconHostLink])

// Rename field with silly name
|rename(field=[[Attributes.update_status, "CurrentState"], ["Attributes.add_tag", Tags]])

// Order output columns to make them pretty
| table([Hostname, Tactic, Technique, Severity, CurrentState, Aging, FirstDetect, FirstAssign, ResolvedTime, ToAssign, AssignToClose, DetectToClose, Tags, "Detection Link"], limit=20000)
soc_efficiency_metrics.yml
CrowdStrike
Monitoring
Endpoint
Insight
2025-10-30
2025-10-30

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