ConceptsAlert Volume

Alert Volume

The total number of alerts a monitoring system generates over time. When volume outpaces the team's capacity, important alerts get buried and analysts experience fatigue, so managing volume is central to effective detection.

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Events

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Individual records of something that happened on a system or network, a logon, a connection, a file change, that are logged and analyzed. Events are the raw units of telemetry that detection and investigation are built on.

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