SIEM challenges begin upstream, where telemetry collection, routing, and retention are fragmented across silos. Ingext replaces that complexity with a purpose-built security lakehouse that collects, labels, transforms, and stores data once—then delivers it where it belongs. The result is lower cost, higher signal quality, and analytics-ready data for search, detection, and AI.
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.
Filter out redundant and low-value logs before they leave the source, reducing ingestion and transport cost.
Send dense telemetry to Parquet-based storage while routing only high-value events to the SIEM for analysis.
Reduce SIEM ingestion by more than 50% while maintaining full investigative visibility across all data tiers.
A lakehouse combines large-scale storage with analytics and AI, allowing data to be stored once and used by many systems. Most lakehouses, however, focus almost entirely on storage and query performance, assuming data arrives clean, structured, and already routed. In security and telemetry environments, that assumption breaks down.
Ingext defines a lakehouse as the entire data lifecycle: collection, streaming transformation, and analytics-ready storage. By unifying high-speed data pipes with an on-demand Parquet data lake, Ingext delivers a lakehouse that is purpose-built for continuous telemetry, not batch uploads or post-processing.
Data is collected, labeled, enriched, and transformed inline as it flows, not after it lands.
Streaming pipelines handle real-time workloads while the lake provides durable, low-cost, analytics-ready storage.
Data is stored in open, columnar formats optimized for search, analytics, and AI without re-ingestion.
Unlike batch-oriented lakehouses, Ingext is engineered for nonstop, high-volume security and operational data.
Traditional SIEMs were never designed to route or tier data. They collect everything, store everything, and charge for every search. The Ingext Lakehouse gives you control — collecting, transforming, and routing data intelligently from the start, so you decide what data to analyze now in your SIEM and what to store in the lake for later — without losing search or visibility.
Deploy the Ingext Lakehouse alongside your SIEM. No agents to replace, no pipelines to rebuild. Connect, configure, and go.
Keep expensive SIEM storage focused on notables. Route telemetry and bulk data into the lakehouse for low-cost, searchable archives.
Elastic, Splunk, Sumo Logic — the Ingext Lakehouse integrates with all of them, extending capability without disruption.
The Ingext Lakehouse operates upstream — before the SIEM — orchestrating telemetry collection, enrichment, and routing. It connects seamlessly to your existing environment, feeding both your SIEM and the Ingext data lake without replacing agents or disrupting operations.
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. The Ingext Lakehouse 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 the Ingext Lakehouse 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%.
less data reaching the SIEM
faster investigations with lighter search loads
savings compared to traditional SIEM-only architectures when using a data lake
By handling telemetry intelligently at the source, the Ingext Lakehouse turns cost control into performance — and makes your data pipeline finally work for you.
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.
What Happens:
Unified pipeline for Syslog, API, HEC
Why It Matters:
Simplifies onboarding
What Happens:
Enrich & normalize data inline
Why It Matters:
Clean, usable logs everywhere
What Happens:
Send valuable events to SIEM, archive dense telemetry
Why It Matters:
Cuts storage cost by 50%+
What Happens:
Data stored in Parquet format in the lakehouse
Why It Matters:
Analytics-ready, low-cost long-term retention. The lake uses spot instances and can be self-hosted, greatly reducing costs.
What Happens:
Unified search across SIEM and lakehouse data
Why It Matters:
Instant access to all data without rehydration. Data is transformed into row-column normalization, aligning it to easier searching and AI analytic needs.
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.
Deploy Ingext to simplify pipelines, cut costs, and expand what your SIEM can do.
Ingext Search unites your SIEM with long-term telemetry storage — giving analysts full visibility across hot, warm, and cold tiers. No rehydration, no waiting. Just instant access to every record when it matters most.
Search notables in your SIEM and historical telemetry in your data lake in a single view — same fields, same context, same speed.
Reconstruct events in seconds — not hours — without moving data. Ingext keeps full fidelity telemetry ready for replay and correlation.
All searches occur through secure, auditable access paths. You maintain full compliance and data sovereignty while expanding visibility.
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