Your SIEM, Supercharged by Ingext.

Route the right data to the right place — cut costs 25% to 80% while keeping every record searchable.

SIEM problems start upstream, where data collection and routing are fragmented across silos. Ingext unifies that flow—collecting, labeling, and directing data to the right systems. This increases product effectiveness while reducing costs.

Ingext flow management diagram showing telemetry routing from sources through the pipeline into SIEM and data lake destinations.
Ingext Straming Fabric Interface

Cost Reduction Starts Upstream

Every organization begins its SIEM journey with a cost problem — storage, ingest, and search all scale linearly with volume. But the real issue isn't price, it's architectural control. SIEMs are forced to process every record as if it matters equally, even though most telemetry is never analyzed.

Ingext is a streaming fabric that shapes, reduces, enriches, and routes data upstream — before the SIEM ever sees it. It drops what's unnecessary, routes dense telemetry to low-cost Parquet storage, and delivers only valuable, ready-to-use events to the SIEM. This architectural change reduces ingest volume by more than half while improving system performance.

Yes, Ingext lowers SIEM cost — but it does so by fixing the cause, not just the bill. When the right data lives in the right system, cost reduction becomes a byproduct of effectiveness.

Drop

Filter out redundant and low-value logs before they leave the source, reducing ingestion and transport cost.

Route

Send dense telemetry to Parquet-based storage while routing only high-value events to the SIEM for analysis.

Save

Reduce SIEM ingestion by more than 50% while maintaining full investigative visibility across all data tiers.

Why Ingext for Elastic

Elastic is powerful, but it was never designed to handle long-term telemetry at scale. Its hot tiers fill quickly, searches slow over time, and older data becomes harder to access — forcing a trade-off between performance and retention.

Ingext changes that by introducing a parallel, high-speed Parquet tier. All incoming data can be routed in real time — with notables sent to Elastic for correlation, and dense telemetry streamed into a low-cost, searchable Parquet data lake. You keep using Elastic exactly as before, but now with faster queries, lighter indices, and dramatically lower storage cost.

This dual-path architecture gives you the best of both worlds: Elastic stays responsive for alerting and dashboards, while Ingext Search keeps your historical telemetry instantly available for investigation — without moving data back into Elastic.

Lighter Indices

Route dense, low-value telemetry to Parquet instead of indexing it in Elastic. Keep only notables hot for faster, cheaper searches.

Faster Investigation

Search historical data directly through Ingext without rehydration. Investigate weeks or months back in seconds.

Lower Storage Costs

Cut Elastic hot-tier expenses by more than 50%. Store dense telemetry efficiently in Parquet with schema alignment for direct cross-tier search.

Elastic + Ingext Architecture

Notables → Elastic (Hot Tier)
Telemetry → Ingext Parquet Data Lake (Searchable)
Unified Query → Both in one view

With Ingext, you don't replace Elastic — you optimize it. You gain faster searches, lower cost, and deeper retention, all while keeping your existing workflows intact.

Why SIEM Infrastructure Matters

Traditional SIEMs were never designed to route or tier data. They collect everything, store everything, and charge for every search. Ingext gives you control — deciding what data to analyze now, and what to store for later — without losing search or visibility.

Ease of Use

Deploy Ingext alongside your SIEM. No agents to replace, no pipelines to rebuild. Connect, configure, and go.

Cost Efficiency

Keep expensive SIEM storage focused on notables. Route telemetry and bulk data into low-cost searchable archives.

Compatibility

Elastic, Splunk, Sumo Logic — Ingext integrates with all of them, extending capability without disruption.

Where Ingext Fits

Ingext operates upstream — before the SIEM — orchestrating telemetry collection, enrichment, and routing. It connects seamlessly to your existing environment, feeding both your SIEM and Ingext's own data lake without replacing agents or disrupting operations.

Collects From

  • AWS CloudTrail
  • SentinelOne
  • Okta
  • CrowdStrike
  • Proofpoint

Feeds Directly Into

  • Splunk
  • Elastic
  • Sumo Logic
  • Logz.io

Why Upstream Matters

Most telemetry never earns its keep. Logs full of repetitive warnings, service heartbeats, or low-level file touches consume space and budget without improving visibility. Ingext filters and categorizes this data in motion — dropping noise before it hits expensive downstream systems.

This alone typically reduces 40% of incoming data volume — immediately lowering transport and ingest costs.

But Ingext doesn't stop there. It also routes dense telemetry — the low-value, high-volume data — into low-cost Parquet-based archives while directing high-value, enriched events into SIEMs like Elastic or Splunk. The result is faster search performance, cleaner indices, and dramatically lower long-term storage costs.

Independent studies have shown that routing telemetry into a data lake can reduce analytical data volume by as much as 95%.

40%

less data reaching the SIEM

faster investigations with lighter search loads

80%

savings compared to traditional SIEM-only architectures when using a data lake

By handling telemetry intelligently at the source, Ingext turns cost control into performance — and makes your data pipeline finally work for you.

How Ingext Works

Ingext acts as the gateway between data collection and consumption. It doesn’t replace your tools — it connects them. Each stage of the pipeline is built for one purpose: move the right data to the right place, cleanly and efficiently.

Collect

What Happens:

Unified pipeline for Syslog, API, HEC

Why It Matters:

Simplifies onboarding

Transform

What Happens:

Enrich & normalize data inline

Why It Matters:

Clean, usable logs everywhere

Route

What Happens:

Send valuable events to SIEM, archive dense telemetry

Why It Matters:

Cuts storage cost by 50%+

Ingext isn’t another analytics product — it’s the missing layer that makes every analytics product work better. By fixing how data moves, it improves how your entire infrastructure performs. The result is simple: lower cost, higher reliability, and a clearer picture of what’s happening in your environment.

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