Telemetry Ingestion

The process of receiving, validating, and storing operational data from monitored systems.

Things happen
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Information is collected
     โ†“
System receives it

Examples of telemetry:

Failed login attempts       <----
Patch status
CPU usage
Memory usage
Process started
Service stopped
Policy violation
Endpoint offline
Agent health

Notice these are events and status, not business data.