Alert Fatigue, Data Overload, and the Fall of Traditional SIEMs
Jul 31, 2025
Security Operations / Threat Detection
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are stretched to their limits. Log volumes are surging, threat landscapes are growing more complex, and security teams are chronically understaffed. Analysts face a daily battle with alert noise, fragmented tools, and incomplete data visibility. At the same time, more vendors are phasing out their on-premises SIEM solutions, encouraging migration to SaaS models. But this transition often amplifies the inherent flaws of traditional SIEM architectures. T he Log Deluge Meets Architectural Limits SIEMs are built to process log data—and the more, the better, or so the theory goes. In modern infrastructures, however, log-centric models are becoming a bottleneck. Cloud systems, OT networks, and dynamic workloads generate exponentially more telemetry, often redundant, unstructured, or in unreadable formats. SaaS-based SIEMs in particular face financial and technical constraints: pricing models based on events per second (EPS) or flows-per-minute (FPM) ca...
