Think about the one tool in your environment that never made it into your SIEM. The line-of-business app a whole department runs on, the email security a client just switched to, the system nobody can get through the day without. It’s a load-bearing pillar of your business but you left it out, because getting it in meant either waiting on a connector that didn't exist or paying to ingest its data by the gigabyte. All too often, "what should we monitor" becomes "what can we afford to monitor."
That friction and unintentional disincentive weakens your security. You shouldn’t have to deal with blind spots because of line items, because tool you can't see tends to be the one you'll wish you had. HTTP Ingest is how we are solving that friction.
What HTTP Ingest is, and the excuse it kills
HTTP Ingest is a way to send logs to your Blumira SIEM over HTTPS, with no agent to install and no prebuilt connector required. The source pushes its events to a unique, token-protected endpoint, and Blumira ingests them in real time. Anything that can make a secure web request can now feed your security monitoring context.
Now, you never have to compromise your defenses because "there's no way to get those logs in." For years that was often true, because every other path into a SIEM stops somewhere. Syslog is dependable for on-prem gear but can't reach a source living in someone else's cloud. An agent covers servers and endpoints but won't install on a SaaS app or a closed appliance. A prebuilt connector is turnkey, but only for the tools a vendor already built one for, and everything else waits behind the roadmap. HTTP Ingest overcomes these limitations and presents a simple solution, so any system that can POST an authenticated request has a way in. (Set up a webhook before? Same idea.)
We didn't invent sending logs over HTTP, and we won't pretend we did. What's new is that Blumira does now, built for the people who actually live with these gaps: lean IT teams, and the MSPs covering a different stack at every client. You asked for this one more than almost anything else, and we listened.
Turning it on doesn't cost you more
Now, the economics line up with good security: cover everything, because without upcharges the more you cover, the better value you get out of your service. Blumira is priced per employee, with unlimited ingestion. Adding a source costs nothing extra, because we want to make sure you’re able to protect your complete workspace.
Being able to say “our environment is monitored” without a “most of” caveat delivers the coverage that a compliance auditor or cyber-insurance form is looking for. For an MSP, it compounds across the whole book: every client's oddball tool can come in during onboarding, with tickets, roadmap delays, or dents in your margin.
How it works
So how does HTTP Ingest work day to day? You create an ingestion source in Blumira, copy the URL and token it generates, and drop them into the tool you want to hear from. Logs start arriving in minutes.
There are two ways in. The universal endpoints take raw text or JSON from nearly anything that can POST. Alongside them, a growing set of sources arrive pre-parsed, so the common tools land close to plug-and-play. Today, you can already parse logs from our launch integration partners Bitwarden, Cloudflare, DNS Filter, GitHub, Ping Identity, and more.
For the technicians: the token rides in the authorization header, payloads come as JSON or raw text, and the endpoint matches the Splunk HEC format a lot of vendors already speak. Anything that can ship to an HTTP event collector can almost certainly ship to Blumira with nothing custom in between. Tokens display once and rotate cleanly, and you can keep two live at a time, so rotating one never costs you downtime.
A partner put it to work the week it shipped:
"We've got the new HTTP ingestion — it came at the perfect time. I'm moving all our clients from Barracuda email security to Inky, and Inky supports sending logs via HTTP. Got that set up and Inky logs flowing in. After the migration I plan to build some custom detections. If self-service detections aren't out yet, I'll send them to you guys to build." — Kodie Campbell, PCnet
Getting the data in is only half the job
Does HTTP Ingest come with detections? Not yet, but we’re just getting started and there is much more to come. Getting the data in is the necessary first step, and effective parsing that ingested data is the second. Building the detection logic on top of it rest of the work, and most platforms hand you that half and walk away. Blumira doesn't.
For the sources we already parse, detections come mapped and ready. For something new arriving over a universal endpoint, the data lands first and detection coverage follows, and you're not on your own for it. If you're a Blumira partner, your Channel Account Manager will get detections built for your sources. Everyone else: that's what our detection engineering and SecOps teams are for. Send us the source, tell us what "bad" looks like inside it, and we'll help you turn raw events into alerts worth acting on. As Kodie said, build them yourself or hand them to us.
Start with the tool you've been leaving out
So what's left to leave out? Honestly, nothing. The connector excuse is gone. The cost excuse is gone. Meanwhile the rest of the industry is heading the other way, charging more for seeing more and, in a few cases, quietly retiring the methods you used to get data in at all. We'd rather hand you a wider door.
The tool you've been living without in your SIEM doesn't have a reason to stay out anymore. Here's where to start:
- Already on Blumira? The endpoints are in your account right now, under Ingestion. Pick the tool that's been off the radar and point it at Blumira. The setup guide covers it source by source. Your Channel Account Manager can help you map the sources worth bringing in across your clients and get the detections built to match.
- Still deciding if Blumira fits? Book a demo and bring the strangest tool in your environment. We'll show you how to get it talking.
