Huntress details scaling challenges as it protects 1.5 million endpoints
Summary
Huntress says it protects 1.5 million endpoints and handles up to 700,000 requests per minute. It describes a request-processing issue, its response, and the data-processing demands of its EDR features.
Key points
- Huntress reported protecting 1.5 million endpoints and aiming to exceed 2 million in 2022.
- The company said its servers averaged 500,000–700,000 requests per minute, with spikes above 1 million.
- A processing issue caused errors for agents requesting updates; Huntress added AWS servers to handle the resulting surge in requests.
- Huntress reported collecting about 22 billion process-creation events over seven days, with 60,000 events per second during North American weekday daytime hours.
- The company said it was deduplicating and aggregating process data to manage infrastructure costs while maintaining security value.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Company infrastructure scaling and operational performance update
- Impact
- Huntress reported protecting 1.5 million endpoints and processing 500,000–700,000 requests per minute, with occasional spikes above 1 million requests per minute. A database-related issue temporarily caused errors for agents requesting updates; after the issue was fixed, Huntress added AWS servers to handle the request surge. The company also reported processing an average of 22 billion process-creation events per seven-day period while working to scale toward more than 2 million endpoints.