SIEM Cost & Ingestion Optimization
Reduce your SIEM ingestion spend without sacrificing the visibility you need. We analyze your current data flows, identify low-value ingestion, and implement a tiered data strategy that cuts costs while maintaining full detection coverage.
What We Deliver
Structured cost reduction across Sentinel and Splunk environments.
A complete analysis of your current data sources - volume, cost per GB, event types, and security value. We identify which sources are over-ingested and which critical sources may be missing entirely.
Implementation of cost-effective log tiers: Basic Logs and Auxiliary Logs in Sentinel, or SmartStore and frozen storage in Splunk. High-frequency, low-security-value data is routed to cheaper tiers while remaining searchable.
Filtering, sampling, and transformation rules applied at ingestion to strip noise before it reaches your SIEM. This reduces volume without removing security-relevant events.
Alignment of retention policies to your compliance requirements and investigation needs. Data that must be retained for compliance but is rarely queried is moved to archive tiers at a fraction of the cost.
Before any data source is modified or removed, we validate that existing detections remain effective. No cost reduction is implemented at the expense of your security coverage.
Typical Outcomes
Organizations we work with typically reduce their SIEM ingestion costs significantly within 90 days, without removing any detection coverage. Savings are quantified upfront during an initial assessment so you know what to expect before any work begins.