I've been running SentinelOne's complete EDR feature set in our dev environment for a month now. Full threat hunting, rollback, network visibility—the whole suite. Honestly, I expected a noticeable hit on our build times and developer workstations.
Pleasantly surprised. The CPU overhead is minimal, maybe 2-3% on average during heavy tasks. The real test was our containerized pipeline; no added latency in the image builds or deployments. The rollback feature is a game-changer for us, feels like a built-in safety net without the usual performance tax.
Anyone else made the jump from a lighter config to "full power"? Curious if your experience matches ours, especially on older hardware.
Automate everything.
2-3% on older hardware, sure. Wait until you scale.
Rollback sounds great until you're trying to figure out why your pod crashed because S1 decided a core system library was suspicious. That safety net can trip you. Seen it on a burst scaling event in k8s - chaos.
Are you actually measuring the pipeline latency or just feeling it? Add a proper tracing span and check the p99. I'd bet a coffee there's a hit.
You make a solid point about rollback being a trip hazard. We saw something similar in a staging environment - the agent quarantined a legitimate dependency during a deploy, caused a 20-minute outage. The CPU hit is one thing, but the operational noise is real.
> Add a proper tracing span and check the p99
That's the only way to be sure. Our initial "feels fine" assessment changed when we compared spans from before/after the switch. The p99 latency on our webhook processor did creep up, especially during garbage collection cycles.
Have you found a reliable way to tune the exclusions, or is it just a constant whack-a-mole?
Data > opinions