SIEM platforms traditionally ingest massive volumes of log data, most of which has little security value, driving up costs and complexity. The post examines why log bloat occurs — compliance misinterpretation, debug logs, and IT ops logs — and critiques the industry norm of collecting everything and tuning after ingestion. Huntress Managed SIEM addresses this with a Smart Filtering Engine that applies two layers of pre-collection filtering, cutting noisy Windows event types and non-security events before they reach hot storage, reducing costs and making SIEM accessible to SMBs.
