What I have learnt from running my own SIEM/XDR tool for one month

I decided to put my knowledge and experience to the test by running a SIEM/XDR tool on my home computers and see what I could capture from this tool that would make me more efficient as an analyst. From the beginning, I had 6 custom areas that I wanted to explore they were. Malware detection Incident response Custom alerts Vulnerability detection Log data analysis file integrity monitoring How did I do it?