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Every SOC team knows the trade-off. Send everything to the SIEM platform and pay for it. Or filter aggressively and risk missing something. Filter lists are written once, during onboarding. Detection content keeps moving after that. Smart Engine, the new core of the VirtualMetric DataStream pipeline, takes the guesswork out of that decision. It reduces SIEM ingest using your registered detection rules. An event that no registered detection could match is dropped.

When an alert fires at 2 a.m., responders need context more than another dashboard. A suspicious authentication event may begin in an identity provider, touch a cloud control plane, appear in an application log, and end with an unusual data transfer. If each signal lives in a separate tool, analysts spend the first part of the incident rebuilding a timeline instead of containing the threat.

Enterprise teams can now add a Webhook alert channel that POSTs every DNS Spy alert — DNS record changes, domain outages, security check failures, WHOIS updates, phishing look-alike detections — to any HTTPS endpoint as structured JSON. Requests are optionally HMAC-signed, every delivery is logged and retried, and a Send Test button verifies your integration end to end.

For years, security teams have been sold the same bargain: send in more data, buy more tools, tune more rules, and you'll be better protected. In practice, a lot of teams have ended up with the opposite. They're carrying more cost and more complexity, and they still don't have much confidence that their detections are actually working the way they should. That's the backdrop for why Cribl is acquiring CardinalOps.

Your organization has approved AI platforms for development, data science, and productivity. Procurement signed off. Legal reviewed the terms. Employees are using them. The tools are sanctioned. What isn’t sanctioned is invisibility. The administrative layer of every AI platform in your environment — OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, Cursor, Databricks, Glean and others — generates security-relevant events that your SIEM has never seen.

Your SIEM flags a threat. Then someone loses ten minutes pivoting to a second tool just to find the trace, host, or deployment behind it. That gap where security and observability living in separate products is exactly what the 7 platforms below are built to close. This list is scoped deliberately to platforms that run real SIEM detection on the same data plane as your APM, logs, and infrastructure telemetry, not standalone security-only tools like QRadar or Wazuh.

Let's walk through setting up SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) alerts to monitor security threats in applications. We will explain what SIEM alerts are, why they're relevant with regard to application security, and provide practical examples of common alerts a developer could implement. We will show how to configure simple alerts with Honeybadger Insights.

Every time Terraform runs a plan, every time an environment is deployed, every time a variable is changed, env zero generates a record. env zero log forwarding sends that record to your existing SIEM or observability platform automatically. For most teams without it configured, that record lives inside env zero and nowhere else.

International travel comes with amazing sights, cultural experiences, and local delicacies. However, most travelers know that it comes with differing economies that impact a money’s value and various currencies. When people need cash, they have to translate the money in their wallets to the local currency, which means different coins and bills. Depending on the exchange rate, the currency’s value can change as the person moves from one country to another.