SIEM Alert Fatigue: Why Tuning Matters More Than Rules

Practitioner notes. Grounded in SY0-701 Domain 4 study material and an in-progress Wazuh home SIEM lab. No vendor affiliation; no production telemetry reproduced here.

Ask a SOC how good its detection is and you will usually get a rule count. Ask the analysts on shift and you will get a different number: how many alerts they closed today without reading them properly. Those two numbers are connected, and the second one is the one that decides whether a real intrusion