announcing-open-source-python-client-pyexclient-for.json

{
    "title": "Announcing Open Source python client (pyexclient) for ...",
    "url": "https://expel.com/blog/open-source-python-client-pyexclient-expel-workbench/",
    "date": "Oct 27, 2020",
    "contents": "Subscribe \u00d7 EXPEL BLOG Announcing Open Source python client (pyexclient) for Expel Workbench Engineering \u00b7 2 MIN READ \u00b7 EVAN REICHARD, DAN WHALEN, MATT BLASIUS, PETER SILBERMAN, ROGER STUDNER, SHAMUS FIELD AND WES WU \u00b7 OCT 27, 2020 \u00b7 TAGS: Company news / MDR / Tech tools At Expel, we believe that human time is precious, and should be spent only on the tasks that humans are better at than machines \u2013 making decisions and building relationships. For the rest of the work, it\u2019s technology to the rescue. We\u2019ve built our platform, Expel Workbench\u2122, to provide an environment where our analysts can focus on high-quality decision making. In order to do this, we knew we needed the platform to be like fly paper for inventors \u2013 good ideas should be easy to experiment with and get into production. Everything you can do in our platform has a discoverable ( Open API FTW!), standard compliant ( JSON API anyone?) application-programming interface (API) behind it. If you can click it in the user interface (UI), you can automate it with client code. Internally at Expel, we\u2019ve been taking advantage of our APIs from the very beginning, but we\u2019ve always hoped to see customers do the same. Introducing pyexclient Today we\u2019re announcing the release of pyexclient , a python client for the Expel Workbench. We\u2019ve built on our learnings over the past few years and have beefed it up with documentation and lots of examples. With the release of pyexclient we\u2019re including: Snippets : we\u2019re releasing 25+ code snippets that give, in a few lines each, examples of how to accomplish a specific task. Want to create an investigation or update remediation actions? We\u2019ve got you. Scripts : In addition to the snippets, we\u2019re releasing some fully featured scripts that contain larger use cases. The three we\u2019re releasing today are: Data Export via CSV : Want to manipulate alert data in your favorite business intelligence (BI) analytics tool? This script provides an example of how to export alert data and fields as a CSV over a specified time range. Poll for new Incident : Want to build automation that runs when bad things are detected? This script provides an example that polls the API for new incidents. It also allows for filtering on keywords. Sync with JIRA : Want to expose artifacts from decisions our analysts make in Expel Workbench to your internal case management system? This script provides an example of syncing Expel activities that require customer action to a Jira project. This includes: Investigations assigned to the customer Investigative actions assigned to the customer Remediation actions assigned to the customer Comments added to an investigation Notebook : Want to see what change point analysis or off-hours alerting looks like in your environment? We\u2019ve got you. We\u2019re releasing a notebook that implements the following: ipywidget to Auth to Expel Workbench (feel free to re-use this!) Overview of alerts with some basic stats like number of alerts, percentage done without customer involvement and off-hours alerting (you can configure timezone and working hours) Heatmap of alert arrival times Time-to-action by severity w/ bar chart Change point analysis for Expel Alert time series! Here\u2019s a screenshot of change point analysis available in the notebook: Example alert time series w/ change points As we\u2019ve been working with our customers to protect and build out their cloud environments, we\u2019ve been impressed with the raw power that can be achieved with composing APIs and configurable components. Work that used to require a huge team to customize enterprise software is now just a script away. We\u2019re really excited to get this client in the hands of our customers and partners, and see what innovative ways they leverage the information available in Expel Workbench. Interested? We hope so! Getting started is as easy as \u201cpip install pyexclient\u201d. Head over to our pyexclient documentation page for more details."
}