User Guide

Vertex-Triage User Guide

Vertex-Triage adds new Storm commands and Workflows to manage queues and tasks.

Getting Started

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Examples

Create a new queue

Queues can also be created via the dedicated workflow.

> vertex.triage.queue.add alerts --desc "A queue for work items relating to alerts"
proj:project=90514f0440f36f1f6093dbf3f4f06974
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.554
        :created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.555
        :creator = root
        :desc = A queue for work items relating to alerts
        :name = alerts

Create a new task within the “alerts” queue that references a risk:alert node

Tasks can also be created from a Node Action in the Research Tool.

> risk:alert#newalerts | vertex.triage.task.add alerts "alert investigation" --assignee visi --yield
proj:ticket=a6ad0a664fe608a0bdb2532d83a14578
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.589
        :assignee = visi
        :created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.588
        :creator = root
        :name = alert investigation
        :priority = medium
        :project = 90514f0440f36f1f6093dbf3f4f06974
        :status = new
        :type = task
        :updated = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.588

Create a trigger to add a task when media:news:title is set and contains a keyword

This example creates a new task when :title contains the keyword malware, and adds it to the malware queue. The title is used to populate the task name.

> trigger.add prop:set --prop media:news:title
--query { +:title~=malware | vertex.triage.task.add malware `triage "{:title}"` }
Added trigger: 8c7dd84438ccad51abe0ae8d736d32eb

> [ media:news=* :title="an article about malware" ]
media:news=ee49ae3d69b3e1b555903199d873dbf9
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.629
        :title = an article about malware

> proj:project:name=malware -> proj:ticket
proj:ticket=fbaa250b29cea09f62770934114ac40d
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.645
        :created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.644
        :creator = root
        :name = triage "an article about malware"
        :priority = medium
        :project = f70b911fb406e1ea2d3a922bbf4f951f
        :status = new
        :type = task
        :updated = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.644

The task will also have a reference to the inbound node.

> proj:project:name=malware -> proj:ticket -(refs)> *
media:news=ee49ae3d69b3e1b555903199d873dbf9
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.629
        :title = an article about malware

Create a cron to check an external system and create a task based on the results

This example calls a placeholder module, and creates tasks in the extsys queue. A similar ingest routine could be written for calling an HTTP API.

> cron.add --hour +8 {
    $mod = $lib.import(somemodule)
    $data = $mod.getData()
    for $item in $data {
      vertex.triage.task.add extsys $item.name --desc $item.details
    }
  }
Created cron job: e79a6e963be18ffae61553d906c1125e

Use of meta:source nodes

Vertex-Triage uses a meta:source node and -(seen)> light weight edges to track created nodes.

> meta:source=62cbf38be08a5fc8933790a68c41d103
meta:source=62cbf38be08a5fc8933790a68c41d103
        .created = 2025/09/03 14:58:30.552
        :name = vertex-triage