What This Workflow Does
This automation solves the critical challenge of ensuring security teams receive immediate notification of high-priority alerts from TheHive. Traditional email-based alerting often leads to delayed responses during security incidents, especially outside business hours. The workflow automatically converts TheHive alerts into SIGNL4 notifications, leveraging mobile push, SMS, and voice calls for guaranteed delivery.
By implementing this solution, security teams can reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) by up to 80% compared to manual processes. The integration maintains all critical alert context including severity levels, observables, and case references while adding SIGNL4's robust notification capabilities. This creates a closed-loop system where teams can acknowledge and act on alerts directly from their mobile devices.
How It Works
1. TheHive Alert Trigger
The workflow monitors TheHive's REST API for new alerts matching configured criteria. It supports filtering by alert severity, tags, or specific observables to prevent notification overload. The trigger captures the complete alert payload including case references, timestamps, and threat indicators.
2. Alert Processing
Critical alert fields are extracted and formatted for SIGNL4 compatibility. The workflow maps TheHive severity levels to appropriate SIGNL4 priority settings, ensuring high-severity alerts trigger immediate phone call notifications while lower-priority alerts use mobile push.
3. SIGNL4 Notification
The processed alert is sent to SIGNL4's API with all necessary context for responders. SIGNL4 handles delivery through configured channels (mobile app, SMS, voice) according to escalation policies. The workflow logs all notification attempts and responses for audit purposes.
Who This Is For
This solution benefits security operations centers (SOCs), IT security teams, and managed security service providers (MSSPs) using TheHive for incident management. It's particularly valuable for organizations that require 24/7 coverage or have distributed security teams needing mobile access to alerts.
Pro tip: Combine this workflow with SIGNL4's duty scheduling to ensure alerts always reach the currently on-call team members, even during weekends or holidays.
What You'll Need
- TheHive 5.x instance with API access
- SIGNL4 account with appropriate subscription tier
- n8n instance or compatible automation platform
- API credentials for both systems
Quick Setup Guide
- Import the workflow JSON into your n8n instance
- Configure TheHive API credentials in the trigger node
- Add your SIGNL4 team ID and API key to the action node
- Adjust alert filters and severity mappings as needed
- Test with sample alerts to verify notification delivery
Key Benefits
Faster incident response with mobile-first alerting that reaches responders anywhere, reducing mean time to acknowledge critical alerts by 60-90%.
Reduced alert fatigue through intelligent filtering that only forwards high-priority alerts to mobile devices while lower-priority items remain in TheHive.
Auditable notification trail that records exactly when alerts were sent and acknowledged, supporting compliance requirements.
Flexible escalation policies that automatically notify backup responders if primary contacts don't acknowledge alerts within defined timeframes.