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title: Automation Service
sidebar_label: Automation Service 
description: Learn how to use the Automation Service to automate actions. 
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The Automation Service allows you to set up actions that run automatically when certain conditions are met. These automated actions help you to respond quickly to a wide range of events. 

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* **Self-paced**: [Automation Service Workshop Self-Paced](https://learn.sumologic.com/path/sumo-security/automation-service-workshop-self-paced)
* **Instructor-led virtual classes**: [Workshops: Automation Workshop](https://www.sumologic.com/learn/training?_workshops=automation-workshop#section-2)
:::

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/about-automation-service/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>About the Automation Service</h4></a>
  <p>Get an overview of how the Automation Service allows you to automate actions.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/intro-to-automation-service/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Introduction to the Automation Service</h4></a>
  <p>Get an introduction to the Automation Service.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/app-central/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>App Central</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to use App Central to get new applications and tools.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/playbooks/create-playbooks/#add-an-action-node-to-a-playbook')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Playbooks</h4></a>
  <p>Learn about playbooks. A playbook is a predefined set of actions and conditional statements that run in an automated workflow to respond to a certain event or incident type.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/automation-service-integrations/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Integrations</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how integrations are connectors to applications from industry-leading network and security vendors. </p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/automation-service-audit-logging/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Audit Logging</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to search the Audit Event Index for log events in the Automation Service and Cloud SOAR. </p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/automation-service-bridge/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Automation Bridge</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to install a bridge for the Automation Service to allow running custom actions or integrations in an on-premise environment. </p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/platform-services/automation-service/automation-service-integration-framework/')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/security/siem-challenges.png')} alt="SIEM Challenges icon" width="40"/><h4>Integration Framework</h4></a>
  <p>Learn about the framework used for integrations. </p>
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