Coverage area

Code & Application Security

2 providers

Datadog Cloud SIEM

Cloud SIEM detection rules, security signals, notifications, cases, dashboards, threat intelligence context and workflow hooks inside Datadog

Cloud WorkloadsContainers & KubernetesIdentity & Access

What they do Monitor and notify SOCaaS

Market EnterpriseMid-Market

Price Published from $5 per 1M analyzed events/month

You still own Triage, investigation and response decisions after Datadog creates a signal

Alert Logic

24/7 MDR over Alert Logic's own platform, with exposure management, log collection, SOC triage and optional Managed WAF coverage

EndpointsCloud WorkloadsIdentity & Access

What they do Investigate and advise MDR

Market SMBMid-Market

Price Quote-based

You still own Remediation and incident-response work unless an automated response workflow or partner service is explicitly configured

How to use this list

Use it when

Use this list when one part of your environment needs managed monitoring or response coverage.

Do not assume

Coverage does not always mean action. Some providers monitor a source but cannot contain threats there.

Ask before shortlisting

Confirm which telemetry sources are included by default.
Ask whether response actions work on this surface or only alerting is included.
Check whether reporting and detection tuning are part of the managed service.

Category background

These SOC providers monitor applications, APIs, and code-level security for threats — covering runtime attacks, vulnerability exploitation, and application-layer anomalies that infrastructure-focused monitoring misses.

Why Application Security Monitoring Matters

Applications are where business logic lives, and they are increasingly the target of sophisticated attacks. API abuse, injection attacks, broken authentication, and business logic manipulation bypass traditional perimeter and endpoint defenses. As organizations adopt microservices, serverless functions, and API-first architectures, the application layer becomes a critical monitoring surface. SOC providers with application security coverage detect threats that would be invisible to network or endpoint-only monitoring.

What to Look For

Look for providers that can ingest and correlate WAF logs, API gateway telemetry, application traces, and runtime security events. Ask whether they understand OWASP Top 10 attack patterns, can monitor API endpoints for abuse, and integrate with your CI/CD pipeline security tools. The best providers correlate application-layer events with infrastructure and identity signals for full-stack threat detection.

Questions

What does application security monitoring include?

Application security monitoring includes runtime application self-protection (RASP), web application firewall (WAF) log analysis, API security monitoring, detection of OWASP Top 10 attack patterns (SQL injection, XSS, SSRF), and correlation of application-layer events with infrastructure alerts. Some providers also integrate with SAST/DAST tools to monitor vulnerability discovery in CI/CD pipelines.

How is application security monitoring different from endpoint or network monitoring?

Endpoint and network monitoring focus on infrastructure-level threats, while application security monitoring operates at the application layer — detecting attacks that target business logic, APIs, and application vulnerabilities. An attacker exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability may not trigger endpoint or network alerts, but application-layer monitoring would detect the malicious query patterns.

Do most SOC providers cover application security?

Application security monitoring is less common than endpoint or cloud coverage among SOC providers. It is typically offered by providers with strong cloud-native or DevSecOps positioning. If application security is critical for your organization, verify that the provider can ingest WAF logs, API gateway telemetry, and application-level events — not just infrastructure alerts.