{"id":11538,"date":"2025-12-16T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/neue-observability-metrics-fuer-retarus-email-security\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:18:38","slug":"new-observability-metrics-for-retarus-email-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/new-observability-metrics-for-retarus-email-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to Hide: New Observability Metrics for Retarus Email Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Retarus, transparency is not a marketing claim \u2013 it is a core design principle. With the introduction of our new Observability Metrics, we are taking the next logical step, delivering a level of visibility that is currently unique in the market. Effective immediately, customers gain full, unfiltered, real-time access to all security-relevant data generated by Retarus Email Security. No black box. No hidden logic. Nothing to obscure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This transparency extends beyond security events to include performance metrics such as message processing and delivery times, which are now continuously observable as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By exposing what other providers often keep opaque, Retarus enables organizations to maintain a precise, data-driven view of their threat landscape. At the same time, customers have immediate access to reliable metrics required for forensics, audits, and both current and upcoming regulatory and compliance requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-built-on-established-standards\">Built on Established Standards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Retarus deliberately relies on established, open standards. All observability metrics are exposed in the industry-standard Prometheus format and can be seamlessly integrated into existing monitoring and observability stacks already in use by our customers, including <strong>Grafana<\/strong>, <strong>Splunk<\/strong>, <strong>Dynatrace<\/strong>, and <strong>Elastic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach allows organizations to retain full ownership and control of their data while consolidating security and performance metrics in a single, centralized monitoring environment. The resulting dashboards and visualizations provide a unified, correlated view across all email security metrics and become particularly powerful when combined with additional tools, applications, and data sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-actionable-insights-instead-of-abstract-kpis\">Actionable Insights Instead of Abstract KPIs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Observability Metrics are designed with operational relevance in mind and provide exactly the information required by security and IT teams in day-to-day operations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Directory Filter Monitoring:<\/strong> Visibility into the rate of emails rejected by the directory filter and analysis of their share of total inbound email volume<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anti-Virus, Spam, and Phishing Detection:<\/strong> Continuous tracking of malware detections, spam filtering, and phishing attempts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Inbound and Outbound Processing Times:<\/strong> Customer-specific average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/rapid-email-security-throughput-times-protection-meets-speed\/\">message processing times<\/a> across the Retarus infrastructure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SPF\/DKIM Rejections:<\/strong> Clear insight into the number of emails rejected due to missing or invalid sender authentication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quarantine Monitoring:<\/strong> Analysis of quarantined emails and their trends over time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Domain-Level Drill-Down:<\/strong> Detailed insights into affected domains, enabling identification of anomalies, attack patterns, or misconfigurations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-designed-for-scalability-and-future-requirements\">Designed for Scalability and Future Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Metrics following the same design principles are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/unlock-deeper-insights-with-retarus-new-enterprise-integration-feature-observability-metrics\/\">already available for other Retarus services<\/a>, and the dataset is continuously expanded. We work closely with our customers to incorporate real-world requirements and operational use cases into our observability roadmap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ensures that Retarus observability metrics remain practical, scalable, and aligned with evolving security, compliance, and regulatory demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/12\/TEM_Grafana-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/12\/TEM_Grafana-980x551.png 980w, https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/12\/TEM_Grafana-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">For Retarus\u2019 Transactional Email service, data is also provided in Prometheus format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested in a deeper technical overview of which metrics Retarus provides and how they are exposed? Detailed documentation is available in our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.retarus.com\/seg\/observability-metrics\">Documentation Center<\/a>, or speak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/contact\/\">directly with our experts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because at Retarus, transparency is not optional \u2013 and we truly have nothing to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Retarus, transparency is not a marketing claim \u2013 it is a core design principle. With the introduction of our new Observability Metrics, we are taking the next logical step, delivering a level of visibility that is currently unique in the market. 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