Five tips for improving your data ingestion and auditing process

**Executive summary:** This Expel article explains how to make security-alert ingestion auditable by favoring polling (to enable reproducible retrieval), recording vendor unique identifiers to compare raw and stored alerts, mapping data ingress and resting points, reusing existing tasking infrastructure (e.g., gRPC), avoiding overload of source APIs by staggering audits, and applying distributed tracing to pinpoint where data was dropped or mutated.