Stop Treating Telemetry Like an Afterthought

When I speak with network and security professionals, I often find telemetry pipeline management is still flying under the radar. It’s too often treated as an afterthought — something cobbled together with leftover IT budget. But in today’s hybrid, cloud-driven, AI-heavy environments, that mindset can leave your organization exposed and underperforming.

In my latest research note for Moor Insights & Strategy — RESEARCH NOTE: The Value of Telemetry Pipeline Management — I explore why telemetry pipelines should be treated as a strategic asset — a core component of modern IT infrastructure.

As the volume and complexity of data grow, especially from AI inference and training workloads, enriched telemetry is becoming essential for gaining visibility, improving security, and driving operational efficiency.

Telemetry Pipelines Have Evolved — and So Should Our Thinking

Gone are the days when telemetry was just about collecting logs. A complete telemetry pipeline now incorporates network-derived telemetry — packets, flow records, and rich metadata — to provide deep observability into everything happening across your infrastructure.

This kind of visibility is key to detecting threats, preventing misconfigurations, and ensuring consistent application performance. Log-based tools alone just can’t keep up — they show you what applications report, not what’s really happening at the network level.

How Gigamon Is Leading the Way

The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline goes beyond the limitations of traditional log-based systems. It brings real-time packet-level visibility together with enriched metadata, helping to eliminate blind spots, detect lateral movement, and troubleshoot issues faster.

And by integrating with platforms like Cribl, you can filter, enrich, and route telemetry more intelligently — sending only the most relevant data to SIEM and observability platforms. The result? Less noise, lower storage costs, and faster time to insight.

Operational Efficiency Meets Security Resilience

Smart telemetry management doesn’t just benefit IT teams — it drives real business value. With fewer outages and faster mean time to resolution, teams can spend less time firefighting and more time delivering value. And from a security perspective, enriched pipelines improve posture by correlating signals across layers — uncovering threats that siloed systems might miss entirely.

In an era where hybrid and multi-cloud environments are the norm, this level of observability isn’t just nice to have — it’s essential.

A Strategic Investment, Not a Line Item

If your goal is to optimize performance and reduce costs, investing in telemetry pipeline management is a force multiplier that’s foundational to any approach to infrastructure and security.

Read the full research note for a more detailed perspective.

READ RESEARCH NOTE

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