Splunk gives you the tools to detect threats, but without 24/7 coverage, it’s not enough. When your team is stretched thin, alert queues build up, coverage gaps go unnoticed, and fatigue takes over. You end up reacting to noise instead of prioritizing real risk. That’s when threats slip through, and response times stretch longer than anyone wants to admit.
When you’re doing detection and response in Splunk without 24/7 coverage, the consequences can be severe. Small issues can quickly compound: alert queues back up, coverage gaps go unnoticed, and fatigue sets in. You find yourself responding to what’s urgent, not necessarily what’s important. This can lead to missed threats and a longer mean time to respond than your leadership is comfortable admitting.
1. Alert Fatigue Is Undermining Your Coverage
- Alert rules were written once and rarely tuned; they fire too often, or for the wrong reasons.
- Overnight, alert queues stack up and flood your team the next morning.
- Senior staff filter alerts mentally, while junior staff get overwhelmed.
- Duplicate alerts or overlapping rule logic cause constant interruptions.
- Low and medium-severity alerts go ignored, even when they contain a real signal.
Business impact: Real threats may sit uninvestigated, critical detections get delayed, and the mean time to respond stretches longer than leadership is comfortable admitting. Fatigue becomes normalized, and risk quietly grows.
2. Operational Chaos Slows Your Response
- No one owns detection engineering full-time; it’s whoever’s free that week.
- Triage steps vary by analyst; prioritization is based on instinct, not logic.
- Playbooks exist, but aren’t consistently followed or updated.
- Detection logic is reactive: changes are made only after something breaks.
- New use cases are added ad hoc, with little validation or coverage review.
Business impact: Your team spends more time maintaining the machine than responding to actual threats. SOC output becomes unpredictable, security maturity stalls, and leadership questions whether the investment produces results.
3. Gaps in Coverage Leave You Exposed
- There’s no dedicated overnight response, you rely on “we’ll check it in the morning.”
- Weekends are quiet zones for attackers, not defenders.
- Escalations outside business hours are rare because no one’s watching.
- Threat activity continues, but correlation across endpoint, identity, and cloud stops at shift change.
- Turnover or PTO leaves critical blind spots with no backfill coverage.
Business impact: Threat chains slip through undetected, incident timelines stretch out, and post-mortems expose missed opportunities. When the board asks if you’re covered around the clock, you don’t want to give the real answer.
You’ve Got Options
Fix It In-House
- Hire additional staff to cover off-hours and weekends, which is costly.
- Invest time building playbooks, tuning detections, and tightening triage.
- Shift strategic analysts into operational roles just to keep up.
The risks: Significant headcount spend, increased burnout risk, and delays in roadmap progress
Let the Gaps Persist
- Ensure alerts are managed by a team that can scale effectively.
- Be prepared for slower responses during off-hours or high-volume spikes.
- Allow real threats to go unnoticed while your team deals with irrelevant noise.
The risks: Increased risk of missed incidents, leadership pressure, and a false sense of readiness.
Bring in Experts to Extend What You’ve Built
- Offload overnight and weekend alert coverage without changing your platform.
- Gain detection tuning and triage refinement from a team that lives in Splunk.
- Reduce noise, tighten signal, and improve response fidelity.
The benefits: 24/7 stability without headcount, higher trust in your detection pipeline, and improved operational maturity, without losing control of your tech stack.
Talk to a Team That Reinforces the Detection Work You’ve Already Done
Your Splunk environment is already operational. Now it’s time to ensure its sustainability. Deepwatch assists teams like yours in extending detection coverage, minimizing alert noise, and providing overnight stability without the need to switch platforms or hire a full SOC.
Talk to an expert at Deepwatch
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