Bought a $400 API security scanner and it flagged my own test endpoints as threats

Spent a full Saturday feeding it traffic from my staging server in Chicago and it kept alerting on the health check route, which is just a GET with no auth. Anyone else had a commercial scanner make you chase false positives harder than actually fixing real issues?

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the_cole1mo ago

Classic vendor move. They sell you fear, then make you pay in time to decode their noise. Health checks are the easiest thing to whitelist, took me five minutes, but the fact it shipped like that tells you everything about their QA. You paid four hundred bucks to become their beta tester. Real talk, most of these tools just regex-match scary words and call it AI. Your staging box probably looked "suspicious" because it was hitting a different IP than their default. Turn off the auto-alerts, feed it only your real prod traffic, and see what actually matters. Otherwise you'll spend every Saturday chasing ghosts.