Splunk® SOAR (Cloud)

Build Playbooks with the Playbook Editor

The classic playbook editor will be deprecated in early 2025. Convert your classic playbooks to modern mode.
After the future removal of the classic playbook editor, your existing classic playbooks will continue to run, However, you will no longer be able to visualize or modify existing classic playbooks.
For details, see:

Determine your playbook flow in

The order in which you arrange the blocks and lines in your playbook determine the playbook flow.

Process playbook blocks serially

Serial processing means playbook blocks are performed in the order they are arranged.

This screenshot shows a playbook with the following blocks: Start, geolocate IP, lookup IP, and End.

In this example, the blocks perform as described:

  1. A geolocate ip is performed on a source IP address.
  2. When the geolocate ip action is finished, a lookup ip performs.

Use serial processing when there must be a specific order to the operations, such as when a downstream block depends on the results from an upstream block.

Processing playbook blocks in parallel

You can also wire blocks to process in parallel, as shown in the following example.

This screenshot shows a playbook with a Start block branching into geolocate IP and lookup IP blocks. Both geolocate IP and lookup IP blocks then go to a single End block.

In this case, the geolocate ip and lookup ip actions perform simultaneously, and either action can finish first. You can wire blocks in this manner when you have no dependencies on the completion of either block, or if there are no dependencies between the blocks themselves.

Arrange playbook blocks

Arrange, or rearrange the playbook flow by moving playbook blocks. You can arrange playbook blocks in the following ways:

  • Individual blocks: Select and drag a single block and drop it in a new location.
  • Multiple blocks: Hold the Command or Ctrl key and select multiple blocks. Then drag them as a group and drop them in a new location.
  • All playbook blocks: Select anywhere on the canvas and drag all of the contents of a playbook to a new location on the canvas.
Last modified on 18 September, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® SOAR (Cloud): current


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