The Observo.ai Blog

How AI-Native Security Data Pipelines Protect Privacy and Reduce Risk

Hidden inside your telemetry are pieces of sensitive information that your security teams do not expect to see. Social Security numbers, account identifiers, medical details, personal contact information, and other forms of PII can appear in unexpected fields and formats. This blog explains how AI-native pipelines use PII detection, enrichment, and data lake capabilities to help organizations find and secure sensitive data everywhere it lives.

December 11, 2025

Observo AI Named a 2025 Inc. Best in Business Honoree

Today, I’m proud to share that Observo AI has been named to the 2025 Inc. Best in Business list. Awards like this are not just markers of success. They validate the impact we set out to make from day one: solving one of the most painful, structural problems in modern cybersecurity: the overwhelming flood of data slowing down security teams everywhere.

December 2, 2025

Advantages of Routing Security Data Where it Has the Most Value

Learn how AI-native data pipelines eliminate misrouted telemetry, reduce redundant collection by 80%, cut SIEM and cloud costs, and improve visibility across security and observability tools. Route security data where it can provide better security and stay within your budget.

November 26, 2025

How AI-Native Pipelines Reduce 80% of Noisy Data for Lower Costs and Better Security

Security data is exploding. Most organizations see their telemetry volumes double every two to three years. Yet only a small percentage of that data contains real indicators of compromise. Analysts estimate that nearly 80 percent of SIEM and observability logs have little or no analytical value.

October 27, 2025

How AI-Native Data Pipelines Accelerate Threat Hunting

The ability to identify anomalies in motion, before they ever reach the SIEM, can make the difference between quick containment and a full-blown breach. By enriching telemetry as it is ingested and flagging high-risk patterns in real time, organizations can stop threats in their earliest stages long before they escalate into incidents that consume weeks of remediation effort.

October 9, 2025

Get Better Data into Your SIEM - Data Onboarding

By bringing more diverse data types into the pipeline, SOCs unlock a deeper understanding of what’s happening across their environment. Security teams can correlate events across endpoints, cloud workloads, and custom applications. They can spot patterns that would otherwise be missed. And they can make decisions based on a complete picture rather than a partial one. This blog shows how to get more data into your SIEM using AI-native pipelines to automate schema translation.

October 3, 2025

Accelerating SIEM Migration with AI-Native Data Pipelines

Migrating from one SIEM to another is almost always harder than it should be. Teams spend months rebuilding parsers, rewriting rules, and figuring out how to keep visibility during the transition. It eats up precious SOC resources and can delay other security initiatives for half a year or more. AI-native security dta pipelines can certainly help.

September 29, 2025

Enrich & Deliver: Context-Ready Logs

Modern security operations are drowning in data but starving for intelligence. Organizations process terabytes of raw telemetry daily from a wide variety of sources, including firewalls, endpoints, and cloud services, yet 80-90% lacks the contextual intelligence needed for effective threat detection and response.

September 25, 2025

A 4-Tiered Approach to Revolutionizing Security Investigations

Observo AI transforms security investigations with its AI-driven Four-Tier Investigation Process. By combining AWS S3, Parquet, and machine learning–based enrichment, Observo delivers 74% storage savings, 80% noise reduction, and sub-second queries across petabytes of data. Analysts can reconstruct attacks in hours, cut false positives by 70%, and accelerate incident resolution by 40%—turning data lakes into proactive, intelligence-ready investigation platforms.

September 18, 2025

Why Observo AI and SentinelOne Are Building the Autonomous SOC Together

Observo AI announces its acquisition by SentinelOne to accelerate autonomous security operations. Together, we're transforming from reactive manual processes to AI-powered defense that anticipates and responds to threats at machine speed.

September 8, 2025

From Chaos to Clarity: How AI Transforms Data Normalization

Modern enterprises drown in inconsistent, siloed telemetry data that slows detection, inflates costs, and weakens security. Observo’s AI-native normalization pipeline transforms this chaos into clarity, delivering faster onboarding, 98%+ data accuracy, and up to 74% lower storage costs while empowering SOC teams to focus on threat hunting instead of manual data wrangling.

August 21, 2025

Integration Spotlight: Smarter Security Operations with Microsoft Sentinel + Observo AI

Observo AI delivers AI-native telemetry pipelines that enhance Microsoft Sentinel by reducing noise, enriching events, and optimizing routing before data hits the SIEM. This results in lower infrastructure overhead, faster detection, and more actionable insights.

July 24, 2025

Build vs. Buy: The True Cost of AI Security Data Pipelines

Security operations today are drowning in data. AI-native security data pipelines have emerged as a critical solution—delivering faster insights at lower cost. This blog explores the true cost of building vs. buying AI security data pipelines—and why, for most enterprises, the build path is riskier, more expensive, and slower to deliver value.

July 17, 2025

Integration Spotlight: Observo AI Supercharges SOCs on Elastic

Observo’s AI-native telemetry pipelines help Elastic users reduce log volume, improve data quality, and streamline ingestion. Whether you're using Elastic Security or building custom dashboards with Kibana, our platform ensures the right data gets in—cleaned, enriched, and ready to deliver actionable insights. This blog explores how Observo helps you get the most out of your Elastic investment—while avoiding the performance bottlenecks, storage strain, and management overhead of legacy ingestion architectures.

July 9, 2025

Why Our Google Cloud Partnership Signals the Future of Cloud-Native Security Operations

When we decided to join Google Cloud Partner Advantage, it wasn't just about expanding our reach or checking a partnership box. It represents our belief that the future of enterprise security operations is fundamentally cloud-native—and that belief is driving how we think about solving the data crisis facing security teams today.

July 1, 2025

Observo AI Supercharges Google SecOps for Smarter Security

We’re proud to partner with Google Cloud to bring the benefits of intelligent, agentic AI pipelines to Google SecOps customers. Observo AI removes the burden of managing telemetry at scale—so SOC teams can focus on investigating threats, reducing alert fatigue, and accelerating incident resolution.

June 26, 2025

Leaner Data = Faster Insights—Accelerating MTTR

In this blog, we’ll explore how AI-native pipelines can help reduce alert fatigue, speed up investigations, and ultimately drive down MTTR by 40% or more—based on outcomes from some of today’s most advanced security organizations.

June 19, 2025

Why We're Partnering with GuidePoint Security

Today's announcement of our strategic partnership with GuidePoint Security represents more than just another vendor alliance. It's our answer to a crisis that's been building for years—one that threatens to undermine the effectiveness of security operations across every industry.

June 18, 2025

Maximizing Splunk Visibility and Performance with Observo AI

Observo AI is proud to be a valued Splunk partner, offering advanced data pipelines that optimize log ingestion, onboard complex or custom data sources, and improve visibility without compromising performance. Whether you’re a Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) customer, using ingest actions, or building around Splunk’s Common Information Model (CIM), Observo AI can help you get more out of your existing investment—starting at the source.

June 17, 2025

Harnessing Machine Learning for Advanced Threat Detection with Observo AI

Organizations face a flood of security data—logs, alerts, and telemetry—making it nearly impossible to sift through. How do you spot the real dangers amid all that noise? Observo AI’s ML-Powered Threat Insights offers a game-changing answer. This innovative platform uses machine learning to turn raw security data into clear, actionable intelligence, helping security teams stay ahead of the curve by enriching logs, detecting anomalies, and uncovering critical patterns.

June 10, 2025

One Query, Every Answer: Visual Dashboards and Federated Search with Observo AI

Traditional search tools are useful when you know what you’re looking for—but far less helpful when you don’t. Teams need to ask open-ended questions, interrogate historical context, and watch trends evolve—without re-running reports or hydrating petabytes of data every time. That’s where the next version of Observo Query comes in. It’s not just a better search tool. It’s a smarter way to explore, understand, and communicate what your telemetry is telling you.

June 9, 2025

Cutting SIEM Costs in Half: How BILL Modernized Their SOC with Observo AI

BILL, a fast-growing fintech leader, was struggling to keep up with surging telemetry volumes and rising SIEM costs—especially from high-volume sources like VPC flow logs. With over 30TB of daily data and a complex ingestion setup, their security team needed a better way forward. By deploying Observo AI, they cut SIEM costs in half and replaced legacy pipelines with a modern, AI-powered SOC architecture—improving threat detection while gaining long-term visibility and control.

June 6, 2025

Taming Telemetry Data Sprawl: How ML Reduces Data 2X Better

Modern data pipelines that use machine learning and pattern recognition offer a fundamentally better approach. Rather than relying solely on human-authored rules, ML-powered pipelines learn from the data itself—automatically recognizing redundant patterns, irrelevant values, and unneeded fields across all types of telemetry. Across real-world environments, pipelines with ML-based optimization achieve 70–80%+ reduction in data volume—more than 2X the reduction possible with traditional methods.

May 28, 2025

Feature Deep Dive: Observo AI Edge Collector and Fleet Management at Scale

Most teams are drowning in agents, configs, and noisy telemetry. Observo AI Edge Collector changes that. Today, we’re taking a closer look at how Observo AI Edge Collector simplifies fleet-wide data collection and control. Learn how teams are cutting costs, replacing legacy agents, and gaining full control over telemetry at scale.

May 20, 2025

Time to Value–Getting to ROI Faster with AI-Powered Data Pipelines

When security data volumes double every two to three years but budgets stay mostly flat, achieving a fast return on investment is the only way most security organizations can get new technologies approved. Teams can’t afford to wait months to see results—they need solutions that pay off starting on the first day of the proof-of-value period.

May 19, 2025

Beyond Cost Cutting: The Hidden Benefits of Optimized Security Data

When you reduce noise, enrich your telemetry with meaningful context, and route data intelligently across tools and teams, you're not just saving money—you’re enabling better decisions, faster investigations, and more resilient operations. You move from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. Optimization isn’t just a way to reduce costs. It’s a practical strategy for helping security and engineering teams work faster, see more clearly, and stay focused—especially when time and attention are limited.

May 14, 2025

REVEALED: How a Retail Giant Cut Security Costs 50% While Boosting Threat Detection

This is the third and final post in our "Data Intelligence in Security: The AI Pipeline Revolution" series. We share implementation best practices and examine the business impact you can expect and detail a real-word example to tie it all together.

May 13, 2025

AI You Control, Never a Black Box with Observo AI

In cybersecurity, speed, clarity, and cost control are everything—and AI has the potential to deliver all three. But only if it’s done right. In this article, we’ll show how Observo AI strikes the right balance between machine intelligence and human judgment—helping your team move faster, stay focused, and always stay in control.

May 12, 2025

All the Colors of Cyber Defense: Red, Blue, Purple Powered by Observo AI

While not positioned as a traditional Purple, Red, or Blue Team tool, Observo AI delivers critical capabilities that empower all three—enhancing threat detection, accelerating response, and enabling deeper, more effective collaboration in the fight against sophisticated attacks.

May 6, 2025

6 Game-Changing AI Pipeline Features That SOC Vendors Won't Tell You About

‍This is the second post in our "Data Intelligence in Security: The AI Pipeline Revolution" series. In Part 1, we explored why AI-powered security data pipelines have become essential for modern SOCs. Today, we'll dive into the critical capabilities you should evaluate when selecting a solution. In Part 3, we'll cover implementation best practices and ROI impact.

May 5, 2025

Your SIEM is Bleeding You Dry: The Hidden 80% Tax You're Paying for Low-Value Security Data

This is the first post in our three-part series exploring AI-powered security data pipelines. We'll examine why these solutions have become essential (Part 1), what key features to evaluate when selecting a solution (Part 2), and how to implement for maximum ROI and business impact (Part 3).

April 23, 2025

Data First, Tools Second: Rethinking Modern SOC Architecture

For years, the industry pushed vendor consolidation as the answer – promising streamlined operations, simplified management, and enhanced visibility through unified platforms. But this approach has delivered more headaches than solutions for many organizations. Best-in-breed solutions for each function of the SOC remain a preferred choice for most companies.

March 26, 2025

Observo AI + AWS Security Lake: Smarter, Cost-Efficient Security Data

Security data is doubling every 2-3 years. To solve this challenge, Observo AI has partnered with AWS Security Lake to help organizations optimize, route, and store security data in a structured and cost-effective manner.

March 19, 2025

Observo AI Achieves Amazon Security Lake Ready Specialization

Observo AI has achieved the Amazon Security Lake Ready Specialization, a significant milestone in our mission to help organizations optimize their security data management while dramatically reducing costs. Learn more about this significant milestone.

March 18, 2025

Introducing Observo Orion: Your AI Data Engineer for Security and DevOps

I’m thrilled to announce the general availability of Observo Orion, the industry’s first Agentic AI Data Engineer. This launch represents more than just a new product — it’s a fundamental shift in how organizations will manage their security and observability data pipelines.

February 26, 2025

Role-based Access Control: Scaling Access Control for Enterprise Needs

In this blog, we will dive deep into how RBAC is implemented at Observo and how it can scale to meet the access control needs of large enterprises.

February 10, 2025

How Storytelling Led Me to Observo AI

Joining Observo AI as the founding director of product marketing 15 months ago was an exciting opportunity to build something from the ground up again. It allowed me to combine my deep understanding of telemetry data pipelines with the AI expertise I gained from Pinecone and EDB. The potential for AI to revolutionize data optimization fascinated me, and I saw Observo AI as an ideal application of this technology.

February 6, 2025

Partnering for Success: Why a Strong Partner Ecosystem is Critical in Enterprise Security

No single vendor can provide all the answers. Organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing vast amounts of security data while maintaining operational efficiency, predicting, detecting, and remediating threats all while dealing with budget constraints. This is why I believe a comprehensive partner ecosystem isn't just beneficial – it's mission-critical for any enterprise B2B software company, especially those of us in the cybersecurity space.

February 5, 2025

Why I’m Betting on Observo AI

It's a unique opportunity. Observo AI sits squarely at the intersection of urgent market needs and exceptional talent. The technical vision of co-founders Gurjeet Arora and Ricky Arora, combined with the strategic guidance of our board and investors, Guru Chahal and Nnamdi Iregbulem from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jake Storm and Nancy Wang from Felicis Ventures, creates an unstoppable force.

February 4, 2025

Better Together: Splunk ES & Observo AI Data Pipelines

Security data collection is key to Splunk ES, but high costs, poor performance, and delayed threat detection pose challenges. Observo AI pipelines automate optimization, reducing security events by 80%+.

February 3, 2025

From Whiteboard to $15M: The Observo AI Story

Today, we’re incredibly excited to share a major milestone in Observo AI's journey: we've raised $15 million in seed funding, led by two of the most respected venture capital firms in the tech world – Felicis and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

January 30, 2025

The Rise of AI in Telemetry

The future of telemetry lies in agentic systems that combine LLMs with a suite of tools to autonomously detect, diagnose, and fix issues—giving engineers more time to innovate and less time to troubleshoot.

January 28, 2025

Feature Deep Dive: Observo Query and the Future of Searchable Telemetry Data

Whether you're holding data for compliance, need to run an investigation on older events, or want to analyze trends across time, Observo Query gives you direct access to archived telemetry—without rehydrating petabytes just to find the single event you need. This blog explores how Observo Query bridges cost-efficient data reduction with deep historical search—and where we’re taking the product next.

December 13, 2024

Why I Joined Observo AI - Brendan Dalpe

It's official! I'm excited to announce that I have joined Observo AI as the founding sales engineer. This is an amazing new opportunity for me to build a sales engineering organization from the ground up.

December 5, 2024

Using Observo AI as a Security Data Fabric

In this blog, we will look at the most common features of security data fabrics and show how Observo AI’s telemetry pipeline for security data can handle all of these. Using the unique capabilities of the AI-powered telemetry pipeline for security data can be a great alternative for organizations looking to implement a security data fabric.

October 8, 2024

Advanced Metrics Optimization: Filter, Reduce, and Aggregate with Observo AI

Observo AI helps DevOps and Engineering teams optimize metrics usage. This article covers three use cases demonstrating how Observo AI reduces metrics volumes and custom metric counts, enabling comprehensive data analysis without straining budgets. This optimization also improves query performance and highlights key areas for improvement.

October 3, 2024

Observo AI is now available on Azure Marketplace

We're excited to announce that Observo AI has partnered with Microsoft and is now available on Azure Marketplace! Azure customers can now easily adopt our AI-powered Security and Observability Pipeline to manage data sprawl, boost productivity, and resolve incidents faster—using their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) for seamless purchasing

September 26, 2024

Without AI, Your Telemetry Data Pipeline Sucks

AI and ML excel at analyzing patterns and optimizing data far beyond human capabilities. Relying solely on human-defined rules in your telemetry pipeline means missing out on significant opportunities for optimization.

August 1, 2024

Observo AI Joins the AWS Marketplace

Observo AI is excited to announce that we have partnered with AWS and our solution is now available on the AWS Marketplace. This will make it easier for AWS customers to quickly adopt the AI-Powered Security and Observability Pipeline to help control costs, manage data sprawl, boost productivity, and identify and resolve critical incidents faster.

July 18, 2024

Mastering Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Logs - Part 2 Optimization

Here in Part 2, we'll explore how Observo AI optimizes FortiGate logs for cost efficiency and enhanced performance while maintaining their analytical value. Typically, customers who use Observo experience an 80%+ reduction in overall log volume for Fortinet logs.

July 9, 2024

Mastering Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Logs - Part 1 Overview

Fortinet FortiGate firewalls are network security devices that monitor and control incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. FortiGate firewall logs contain valuable information about network and security events, essential for security and infrastructure monitoring in enterprises.

June 28, 2024

Unleashing the Power of Data: Announcing the Official Partnership Between Observo AI and Splunk

Splunk Enterprise with Observo AI's observability and security data pipeline enhances the capabilities of security and DevOps teams even further.

June 5, 2024

Mastering CloudTrail Logs, Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we took a look at what CloudTrail logs are, the value addition that CloudTrail logs serve and some of the problems involved in processing and storing these logs. In part two of this series, we will look at how Observo helps organizations process CloudTrail logs at scale and derive value from them.

May 16, 2024

Announcement: New Partnership With Panther Labs SIEM

Observo.ai is excited to share our new partnership with Panther Labs, a modern SIEM built for the cloud. This enables Panther users to leverage Observo.ai’s powerful telemetry data pipeline features to get data from almost any source, on-prem or cloud into Panther's SIEM.

May 7, 2024

Why an Observability Pipeline is a Must Have for Security

SIEMs and other security tools face the challenge of rapidly growing data volumes which can bury meaningful insights and slow down SecOps teams. This blog will explore why an Observability Pipeline is essential for maintaining enterprise security effectively.

May 3, 2024

The Modern SOC Platform

Francis Odum recently released his research report titled, “The Evolution of the Modern Security Data Platform”. In this article, we will highlight some of the findings of this report and share how Observo.ai is addressing some of the biggest trends in security with our AI-Powered Telemetry Pipeline.

April 30, 2024

Solving the Getting Data In Problem: Ingesting and Normalizing Heterogeneous Data at Scale

Integrating observability pipelines in the modern infrastructure is complex, and engineering teams often face several challenges when onboarding data into their observability pipelines. Read more to learn how to overcome these challenges.

April 23, 2024

Mastering OpenTelemetry - Part 1

Delve into the history of OpenTelemetry, its current capabilities, how it stacks up against other leading observability platforms, and its connection with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

April 16, 2024

Mastering CloudTrail Logs, Part 1

CloudTrail logs serve a vital role in security, governance and operational visibility. In this blog, we will cover their most common use cases, dive into the contents of CloudTrail Logs and study the challenges of working with them.

April 12, 2024

Advantages of an AI-Powered Observability Pipeline

An AI-powered observability pipeline, like Observo.ai, addresses the challenges of escalating data volumes and infrastructure costs making it a pivotal tool for security and DevOps teams seeking efficient telemetry data solutions.

March 26, 2024

Archival & Hydration at Enterprise Scale: Maximizing Data Value While Minimizing Costs

In today's data-driven world, organizations face a critical challenge: balancing the need for comprehensive log data with the escalating costs of data storage and processing. Observo AI's Archival and Hydration features provide a powerful solution that helps organizations optimize their data management costs while maintaining full control over their data.

March 21, 2024

Case Study: SaaS Co. Boosts Developer Productivity and Saves 45% on Datadog Costs

In this success story, learn how a major SaaS Software provider dramatically improved their software release schedule by resolving incidents faster and also saved 45% on Datadog costs for infrastructure.

March 6, 2024

Enhancing Security with Fine-Grained RBAC: The Observo AI Approach to Data Access and Auditability

Implementing fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) offers an effective solution to the challenges complex organizations face with respect to access to secure data. By providing granular control over who can access specific data and at what level, Observo AI's RBAC ensures that only authorized personnel can view, modify, or share sensitive information.

February 27, 2024

Observo.ai Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

We are thrilled to announce that Observo.ai has successfully attained SOC 2 Type 2 certification, a testament to our unwavering commitment to data security and privacy.

February 12, 2024

6 Benefits of an AI-Powered Observability Pipeline

An AI-powered Observability Pipeline like Observo.ai adds machine learning and artificial intelligence to elevate pipelines to become always on, ever learning and improving. They optimize telemetry, route it to the right tools, and dynamically improve security, relevant alerting, cost control, and compliance.

February 5, 2024

Mastering Firewall Logs - Part 2

In this blog, Part 2 in the series, we will explore how firewall log data can be optimized without losing any of their analytical value. In Part 1, we reviewed common use cases and problems associated with storing and processing firewall logs.

February 1, 2024

Major Hospital System Cuts Azure Sentinel Costs by Over 50% with Observo.ai

Explore how Observo.ai helps leading hospital system cuts Azure Senitinel costs by more than half by reducing infrastructure and data storage by more than 80%.

January 30, 2024

Observability 101: What is an Observability Pipeline?

Observability pipelines parse and shape data into the right format, route it to the right SIEM and Observability tools, optimize it by reducing low-value data and enriching it with more context, and empower these teams to make optimal choices while dramatically reducing costs.

January 3, 2024

Observability 101

Welcome to Observability 101 by Observo AI—a comprehensive 46-chapter guide covering observability, security, and DevOps. Got questions? This series is your go-to resource, answering everything you need to know.

January 2, 2024

Strengthening Digital Operations Resilience for the Financial Industry with Observo AI

Observo AI’s Smart Pipeline helps financial institutions meet new regulatory mandates by optimizing security data flows, improving threat detection, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations like DORA and ISO 27001—without adding complexity or cost.

November 30, 2023

Large Enterprise Cuts Elasticsearch and SIEM Costs by 40% with Observo.ai

Explore how a leading AI software company slashed Elasticsearch observability costs, improved incident response, and bolstered security and compliance with Observo.ai.

November 24, 2023

Optimizing VPC Flow Logs - Part 1

In this blog, we will review common use cases and problems associated with storing and processing VPC Flow Logs.

November 21, 2023

Observo.ai Enables Enriched Data, Reduced Infrastructure Costs and Faster Incident Resolution for E-Commerce Giant on Splunk

Discover how a Global 1000 company achieved significant savings and enhanced operational efficiency with observo.ai.

November 17, 2023

Mastering Firewall Logs - Part 1

In this blog, we will review common use cases and problems associated with storing and processing firewall logs. In Part 2, we will explore how firewall log data can be optimized without losing any of their analytical value.

November 17, 2023

Breaking Through the Observability Wall: Scaling Your Telemetry Architecture

Introducing an intelligent observability pipeline, designed to classify data, making existing telemetry infrastructure and tooling scalable and efficient.

October 17, 2023

Out of Control: Managing log data costs in an economic downturn

Log management costs are growing, and it's a concern for companies, users, and developers trying to scale their organizations.

September 17, 2023

Optimizing VPC Flow Logs - Part 2

In this blog, we will show how Observo.ai can optimize the storing and processing VPC Flow Logs with our AI-Powered Observability Pipeline

February 1, 2023