title: "Alert Streaming & Real-Time Updates" description: "Real-time streaming platform delivering instant alert notifications with low latency, high concurrency support, and reliable delivery for mission-critical alert monitoring" category: "alert" icon: "broadcast-tower" audience: ["Compliance Teams", "Security Operations", "Fraud Investigators", "System Integrators"] capabilities:

• "Real-time streaming notifications"
• "Filtered subscriptions"
• "Connection management and resilience"
• "Multi-channel push notifications"
• "Delivery guarantees" integrations: ["Monitoring Dashboards", "Mobile Applications", "Slack/Teams", "PagerDuty/OpsGenie"]

Alert Streaming & Real-Time Updates#

Overview#

A fraud investigator monitoring a live case needs to know the moment a flagged account triggers another alert, not five minutes later when a batch job runs. That five-minute gap is enough time for a fraudster to complete a transaction, withdraw funds, and move on. Real-time streaming exists because in security and financial crime operations, latency is a liability.

The Alert Streaming & Real-Time Updates platform delivers instant alert notifications through persistent streaming connections powered by GraphQL subscriptions, achieving low-latency delivery with high reliability across large numbers of concurrent connections. Purpose-built for security operations centres, compliance monitoring teams, fraud investigation units, and critical infrastructure operators, the streaming infrastructure eliminates polling overhead, cuts alert response times, and ensures critical alerts reach analysts within moments of detection.

flowchart TD
    A[Alert Generated] --> B[Streaming Broker]
    B --> C[Filter Engine<br/>Per Subscription Criteria]
    C --> D{Connection Active?}
    D -->|Yes| E[Push via GraphQL Subscription]
    D -->|No| F[Message Queue<br/>Persist During Disconnect]
    E --> G{Delivery Confirmed?}
    G -->|Yes| H[Delivery Log + Ack]
    G -->|No| I[Retry Logic]
    I -->|Success| H
    I -->|Persistent Failure| J[Failover Channel]
    F --> K[Auto-Replay on Reconnect<br/>Zero Event Loss]
    K --> E
    J --> L[Email / SMS / Push Fallback]
    H --> M[Analyst Dashboard Updated]
    L --> M

Key Features#

Subscription Management#

• Persistent streaming connections with authentication and authorization at the session level
• Configurable alert filters enable clients to receive only the notifications relevant to their role and current focus
• Automatic reconnection with message replay ensures zero alert loss during network interruptions
• Connection health monitoring with heartbeat detection and automatic recovery
• Session persistence across network interruptions, so analysts do not lose their context during transient connectivity issues

Filtered Subscriptions#

• Filter by alert severity, category, source type, entity identifiers, and custom attributes
• Dynamic filter updates take effect without disconnecting the streaming session
• Compound filters support complex subscription criteria for specialized monitoring views
• Team-based subscriptions share filter configurations across group members automatically
• Priority-based delivery ensures critical alerts arrive first even when the connection is under load

Multi-Channel Delivery#

• Streaming connections via GraphQL subscriptions for dashboard and application integration
• Email notifications for asynchronous alert delivery
• SMS for urgent mobile notifications when direct streaming is unavailable
• Mobile push notifications for iOS and Android
• Collaboration platform integration with Slack and Microsoft Teams
• Incident management integration with PagerDuty and OpsGenie
• Webhook delivery for custom system integration

Delivery Reliability#

• Guaranteed delivery semantics with acknowledgment tracking at the message level
• Message queueing during client disconnects with automatic replay on reconnection
• Ordered delivery maintains alert sequence integrity so analysts see events in the correct temporal order
• Multi-layer deduplication prevents duplicate notifications during reconnection scenarios
• Delivery confirmation and failure reporting for audit and compliance purposes

Resilience and Scaling#

• Horizontal scaling supports growing concurrent connection counts without service degradation
• Multi-region deployment for geographic resilience and reduced latency
• Automatic failover maintains service continuity during infrastructure events
• Graceful degradation under load with priority-based resource allocation for critical connections
• Connection migration during maintenance windows without client disconnection

Use Cases#

SOC Dashboard Updates#

Security operations dashboards receive instant alert notifications for real-time situational awareness. Filtered subscriptions ensure each dashboard widget receives only its relevant alert category, keeping displays focused and actionable.

Mobile Alert Monitoring#

Analysts on the move receive push notifications for critical alerts, with severity-based routing ensuring only high-priority alerts generate mobile interruptions while routine alerts wait for dashboard review.

Compliance Monitoring#

Compliance teams receive real-time notifications for regulatory alerts, ensuring time-sensitive compliance requirements are met. Delivery tracking provides audit evidence that notifications were sent and received within required timeframes.

Multi-Team Coordination#

During active incidents, streaming connections distribute real-time updates to all involved teams simultaneously, maintaining shared situational awareness and enabling coordinated response without separate briefing calls.

Integration#

Client Integration#

• GraphQL subscription support for dashboard and application integration
• Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android push notification integration
• Webhook endpoints for custom system-to-system notification delivery
• Collaboration platform apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams

Authentication and Access#

• Token-based authentication with automatic refresh
• Role-based subscription permissions aligned with alert visibility controls
• Audit logging for all subscription and delivery events

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-23 Last Updated: 2026-04-14