# Cyb3rWard0g/HELK

The Hunting ELK

Repository: https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/helk
Language: Jupyter Notebook
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: hunting, elasticsearch, kibana, logstash, hunting-platforms, elk, elk-stack, elastic, docker, jupyter-notebook, threat-hunting, spark, dockerhub
Last push: 2024-06-01T14:05:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3459, "days_push": 823, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3931, forks 689 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:29.997604+00:00)

## What it is
The Hunting ELK (HELK) is an open-source threat hunting platform built on the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with advanced analytics via Apache Spark, GraphFrames, and Jupyter notebooks. It is designed primarily for research and rapid deployment of hunt platforms for testing threat hunting use cases.

## Use cases
- deploy a threat hunting platform quickly
- analyze security logs with Spark and Jupyter notebooks
- build a threat hunting lab for research
- run graph analytics on security event data
- test hunting use cases against Elasticsearch data
- explore security telemetry with SQL and Kibana

## When to choose
- you want a ready-made, Docker-based hunt platform for research or labs
- you need data science capabilities (Spark, GraphFrames, Jupyter) on top of an ELK stack
- you are learning or teaching threat hunting fundamentals

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade, battle-tested SIEM for large data volumes
- you require long-term support or stable releases, since the project is alpha and infrequently updated
- you only need basic log aggregation without advanced analytics

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: search-engine, data-visualization, analytics, machine-learning, monitoring
- domain: security, analytics, big-data, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: threat-hunting, elk-stack, elasticsearch, kibana, logstash, apache-spark, jupyter-notebook, security-analytics, hunt-platform, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- Cyb3rWard0g/HELK (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:29.997604+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:40.719467+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:29.997604+00:00, sha a25245c67954)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.