Federation Engine
Trace8’s federation engine runs live queries inside your existing Sentinel, Splunk, or Elastic — read-only, on-demand, zero-ingestion. The most defensible thing about Trace8 is what it refuses to store.
The problem with ingestion
Every SIEM replacement asks the same thing first: send us your logs. That single requirement carries the cost, the latency, the duplication, and the data-residency headache that makes these migrations brutal. It also means your most sensitive telemetry now lives in someone else’s platform. Trace8 inverts the model. We don’t ask for your data. We bring the investigation to it.
How zero-ingestion works
During a live investigation, a pipeline node issues a read-only query into your SIEM using credentials you control and scope.
Raw results exist only for the duration of that single node’s execution. Never written to disk, never persisted, never indexed on our side.
Only the AI-generated summary — the reasoning, the verdict, the evidence trail — is kept. The raw logs that produced it are already gone.
Why this is the differentiator
What it integrates with
Trace8 is a replacement for the analyst workflow on top of these systems, not a rip-and-replace of your storage layer. You keep what you’ve built. We change what it costs you to investigate.