# Managing event filters outside the UI

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762>\
**Category:** SIEM\
**Created:** [July 27, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762 "2022-07-27T14:20:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ryanturner03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ryanturner03/32/108833_2.png) [@ryanturner03](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ryanturner03)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762/1 "2022-07-27T14:20:19Z")

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Hi all,  
I'm looking for a way to manage event filters across a number of deployments. Is there any API available to create / manage those or can it only be done in the UI?

The feature I'm referring to:

> **[Event filters | Elastic Security Solution \[8.3\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/event-filters.html)**

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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Logan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kevin_logan/32/74427_2.png) [@Kevin\_Logan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kevin_Logan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762/2 "2022-07-27T15:01:13Z")

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@ryanturner03 yes, you can use the API directly to manage Event Filters.

Refer to this documentation: [Event filters | Elastic Security Solution [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.3/event-filters-api.html)

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**Author:** ![ryanturner03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ryanturner03/32/108833_2.png) [@ryanturner03](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ryanturner03)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762/3 "2022-07-27T15:19:42Z")

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Nice! I knew it had to be somewhere - I didn't think of it as an endpoint API but makes sense now. Thanks Kevin!

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**Author:** ![ryanturner03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ryanturner03/32/108833_2.png) [@ryanturner03](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ryanturner03)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762/4 "2022-07-27T22:12:37Z")

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One thing to add that I found is that the documentation mentions using a list\_id of "endpoint\_events", but in the version of Kibana I am using (8.3.2) the list\_id that is used is "endpoint\_event\_filters".

If you don't use that list\_id, the filters don't have any effect and wont appear in the UI

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-event-filters-outside-the-ui/310762/5 "2022-08-24T22:12:45Z")

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