I'm setting up Auth0 for my company's new SaaS product. Their dashboard shows login activity, but I've heard we should set up external monitoring for suspicious patterns (like failed logins from unusual locations).
What's the best way to do this? I'm thinking about webhooks to our own logging system or maybe integrating with a security monitoring tool. How are others handling this? I want to catch things Auth0 might not flag on its own.
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Great question. Setting up external monitoring is definitely the right move. The Auth0 dashboard is useful, but you miss out on correlating those events with other signals from your own application.
Your idea about webhooks to your own logging system is a common first step. I've seen teams use Auth0's Log Streaming to pipe all authentication events directly into something like Splunk or a managed SIEM. The key, though, is building the actual detection logic on your side. You'll want to define what "unusual" means for your user base, like logins from new countries or a spike in failed attempts on a single account outside of business hours.
Have you considered the overhead of building and tuning those detection rules yourself? It might be worth evaluating a dedicated security monitoring tool that can ingest the logs and has pre-built analytics for this exact use case.
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