Our Wiz instance is generating over 500 critical/high alerts daily. The team is completely desensitized.
The noise is overwhelming:
* Repeat findings on non-prod ephemeral workloads that auto-resolve in hours.
* "Critical" vulnerabilities in container images from internal dev builds that never hit production.
* Cloud misconfig alerts firing constantly for approved, risk-accepted patterns.
We've spent months tuning suppression rules, but it's a whack-a-mole game. Last week, a genuine, exploitable public S3 bucket alert got buried and was missed for days.
Is this just the cost of doing business with a comprehensive CNAPP, or are others finding a way to cut the signal-to-noise ratio to something actionable? What's your threshold for daily critical alerts before the system becomes background noise?
500 critical alerts a day isn't a tool, it's a liability. You're not doing FinOps if you're wasting that much analyst time on noise.
The real question you should be asking isn't about thresholds, it's about value. What did your last true-up call with their sales engineer look like? I'd bet they framed the noise as "comprehensive coverage" and offered more professional services hours to help you "tune" it. That's the cycle.
>approved, risk-accepted patterns
This is your process failure, not just Wiz's. If a pattern is truly risk-accepted, it should be codified and excluded at the organizational level, not left to scream in the console. The fact that you're still getting those alerts means your governance isn't plugged into the tool. Vendor lock-in starts when you adapt your processes to their alerting model instead of the other way around.
You buried a real S3 finding. That means the tool has already failed its primary job. Are you tracking the cost of that miss?
Question everything