Vulnerability alert fatigue nearly swamped WHOOP. But its fix still keeps a human in charge.
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In the world of tech companies, dealing with hundreds of thousands of vulnerability alerts daily has become a common challenge. The rising popularity of AI has exacerbated the issue, making it increasingly difficult to sift through the noise and identify genuinely actionable alerts. Manual security and site reliability engineering can no longer keep up with the volume of alerts.
WHOOP, a health and fitness tracker, experienced this pain firsthand. The company, which handles sensitive user data, relied on multi-day, all-hands triage sessions to manage the alert deluge. However, this approach was not sustainable, especially considering the rapid growth of the business and the critical nature of the data being handled. To address this issue, WHOOP developed an automated vulnerability-response workflow tailored to its specific technical, operational, and trust needs.
The company collaborated with Datadog, using Datadog Bits AI and Workflow Automation to build and implement the workflow. This system allows for a faster, scaled response to vulnerabilities while maintaining a human oversight. WHOOP staff engineer Vinay Raghu and Datadog senior product engineer Amber Tunnell will present the details of this automated workflow during a live Datadog x The New Stack event on October 7, 2026.
Attendees will have the opportunity to compare notes on where their teams currently stand with vulnerability response and learn about the potential of adopting a similar workflow.
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