The role of SIEM has never gone away. From the beginning, it’s been the backbone of security operations: the system where logs converge, alerts are analyzed, and incidents are investigated. What’s changed is our ability to use it correctly. Legacy, traditional SIEM tools forced trade-offs. Teams filtered data at ingest, dropped logs to control costs, or siloed analytics into disconnected point tools. The result was a SIEM that felt heavy, reactive, and underwhelming.