Telemetry pipelines become a cloud SOC control plane

Filtering before ingestion, vendor-neutral routing, schema normalization, OpenTelemetry governance, enrichment, redaction, buffering, and retention controls are emerging as core requirements for cloud, container, AI-workload, and SIEM operations. SIEM modernization reinforces the need to validate parsers, detections, workflows, coverage, latency, forensic retention, and actual savings before reducing telemetry.