Behind the Build with Gigamon: Enriching Microsoft Sentinel with Network-Derived Telemetry
Behind the Build is an ongoing series spotlighting standout Microsoft partner collaborations. Each edition dives into the technical and strategic decisions that shape real-world integrations—highlighting engineering excellence, innovation, and the shared customer value created through partnership. Security teams today operate across an expanding set of signals, spanning identity, endpoint, cloud and application environments. Yet many organizations still lack sufficient visibility into how systems communicate across their infrastructure, creating gaps in detection, investigation, and response. In this edition of Behind the Build, I spoke with Srinivas Chakravarty, vice president, cloud ecosystems at Gigamon, about how Microsoft and Gigamon collaborated to bring network-derived telemetry into Microsoft Sentinel, helping customers enrich security investigations with deeper runtime context and AI-driven insights. The Evolution of Network Intelligence and Why It Matters For more than twenty years, Gigamon has helped organizations access and operationalize network traffic across complex environments. Today, the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, helps enable organizations to extract actionable network-derived telemetry across hybrid infrastructure, encrypted traffic, containers, and modern application environments. That foundation makes the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline a strong complement to Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft Sentinel brings together security telemetry from across the enterprise—including identity, endpoint, cloud, application, and network data sources—while Gigamon contributes enriched network-derived telemetry that provides additional runtime context into how systems, applications, and services communicate. Together, these signals can help organizations gain deeper insight for threat detection, investigation, and response. As Srinivas put it: “You have logs, you have metrics, you have traces, but network telemetry completes the picture.” Together, these data sources provide deeper context for threat detection, investigation, and AI-driven analysis. Read the full announcement here: Behind the Build with Gigamon: Enriching Microsoft Sentinel with Network-Derived Telemetry Original Publication: Microsoft Sentinel Blog, June 30th, 2026
