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Synalogic Sentinel
vs Agentic Monitoring

Most continuous monitoring platforms detect risks and route them automatically. Sentinel detects risks and requires a qualified human to review, document, and resolve every one. That difference is what produces a defensible assurance record.

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The core difference

Synalogic Sentinel

Every alert reviewed. Every resolution documented.

AI detects risk signals continuously and scores them by severity. Every alert is routed to a documented human reviewer — it cannot be auto-processed, dismissed algorithmically, or resolved without a logged decision. Every resolution is timestamped and permanent.

Agentic monitoring platforms

Signals detected. Resolutions automated.

Conventional continuous monitoring platforms detect anomalies and route them through automated workflows. Rules-based resolution, auto-escalation, and algorithmic triage mean alerts can be processed without documented human judgment at the point of decision.

Why automated alert resolution
creates assurance gaps

Fast is not the same as accountable. A signal that closes automatically produces no evidence that a qualified person reviewed it.

What automated monitoring does

It surfaces risk signals continuously — anomalies, control gaps, threshold breaches — and routes them through predefined workflows. Many platforms auto-escalate, auto-assign, or auto-dismiss based on rules. Speed is the benefit. Documentation of human judgment is the casualty.

Why that creates an assurance gap

When a regulator, internal audit function, or board asks which alerts were reviewed and how they were assessed, automated resolution workflows produce activity logs — not evidence of human judgment. The question "did a qualified person review this?" cannot be answered from a rule-triggered state change.

Synalogic Sentinel routes every AI-detected signal to a human reviewer who must accept, escalate, or dismiss it with a documented rationale. The record is immutable. The accountability is architectural — not a setting you configure, and not something that can be bypassed under time pressure.

Side-by-side comparison

Factual comparison across the dimensions that matter.

Synalogic Sentinel Agentic monitoring platforms
Core approachAI detects — human must review and document every resolutionAI detects — workflows route and often resolve automatically
Mandatory human review✓ Every alert requires documented human decision✗ Alerts can be auto-processed by rules
Alert resolution audit trail✓ Who reviewed, what decision, when — permanent✗ Activity logs, not decision-level audit trail
Auto-dismissal✗ Not permitted — every alert requires a decision~ Rules-based auto-dismissal common
Risk scoring✓ AI scores by severity, likelihood & velocity~ Varies by platform
Source traceability✓ Every signal linked to its source data✗ Aggregated signals, source often abstracted
Assure integration✓ Feeds directly into Assure engagement workflow✗ Separate product ecosystems
Data sovereignty✓ In-country, single-tenant✗ Typically US-based, multi-tenant SaaS
Target marketInternal audit functions, enterprise, regulated industriesEnterprise GRC — large corporates and financial institutions
PricingVolume-driven, value-based — contact usEnterprise pricing, typically US$50,000–$200,000+/yr

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from teams evaluating these platforms.

Is Synalogic Sentinel better than Diligent continuous monitoring?
For audit functions and regulated entities that need to prove every risk signal was reviewed by a qualified human, yes. Diligent and most enterprise GRC platforms route alerts through automated workflows where resolution can occur without documented human judgment at the decision point. Sentinel requires a human to review and document every alert before it resolves. The result is an immutable record of assurance activity that automated monitoring cannot produce.
What is the difference between Synalogic Sentinel and conventional continuous monitoring platforms?
The accountability architecture. Conventional continuous monitoring platforms — including Diligent, MetricStream, ServiceNow GRC, SAP GRC, AuditBoard, and similar — detect risk signals and route them through configurable workflows, which often include automated escalation, assignment, and resolution rules. Synalogic Sentinel routes every AI-detected signal to a human reviewer who must make and document a decision. No alert resolves without a logged human judgment.
Does continuous monitoring need human review for every alert?
For regulated entities and internal audit functions that need to demonstrate assurance rigour, yes. Activity logs showing a rule triggered and closed an alert do not constitute evidence that a qualified person assessed the risk. When a regulator, audit committee, or board asks how risk signals were managed, the answer needs to include who reviewed each signal, what they decided, and when. Sentinel produces that record. Automated resolution workflows do not.
Can Synalogic Sentinel replace MetricStream or ServiceNow GRC?
Yes, for the continuous monitoring and ongoing assurance use case. Sentinel provides always-on control monitoring, AI risk signal detection and scoring, mandatory human review of every alert, and an immutable resolution record. It integrates directly with Synalogic Assure so signals that warrant formal investigation feed into structured audit engagements. For organisations that need GRC functions beyond continuous monitoring — policy management, enterprise risk registers, board reporting — Sentinel works alongside those systems.
How does Synalogic Sentinel pricing compare to MetricStream or Diligent?
Enterprise GRC platforms like MetricStream and Diligent are typically priced from US$50,000 to over US$200,000 per year depending on modules, users, and configuration. Implementation and customisation fees are quoted separately and can add significantly to Year 1 cost. Synalogic Sentinel uses volume-driven, value-based pricing — contact us for a quote based on your monitoring scope and team size.

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