Grafana Loki vs. Microsoft Sentinel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana Loki
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana Logs (powered by Loki) brings together logs from applications and infrastructure in a single place. By using the exact same service discovery and label model as Prometheus, Grafana Logs can systematically guarantee logs have consistent metadata with metrics. Grafana Logs lets users send logs in any format, from any source so it’s easy to add to existing infrastructure and get up and running quickly. Leverage a wide array of clients for shipping logs like…
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Microsoft Sentinel
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.
$2.46
per GB ingested
Pricing
Grafana LokiMicrosoft Sentinel
Editions & Modules
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Azure Sentinel
$2.46
per GB ingested
100 GB per day
$123.00
per day
200 GB per day
$221.40
per day
300 GB per day
$319.80
per day
400 GB per day
$410.00
per day
500 GB per day
$492.00
per day
More than 500 GB per day
$492.00 + $98.40
per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Grafana LokiMicrosoft Sentinel
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
Grafana LokiMicrosoft Sentinel
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Loki
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Ratings
Microsoft Sentinel
7.4
24 Ratings
5% below category average
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings7.224 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings7.224 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.222 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings7.324 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings6.320 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings6.920 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.722 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.721 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings7.922 Ratings
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User Ratings
Grafana LokiMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(2 ratings)
8.2
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Grafana LokiMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
Grafana Labs
Grafana Loki can compile data logs for easy exploration of a service and enable quick troubleshooting and error tracing for engineers who may not have deeper access. However, Loki is dependent on the service logging complexity, which, depending on the logger, may not be robust enough and limit the value offered.
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Microsoft
I'll go with where it's very suited in certain industries, including ours where the data resides or where it's being sent is incredibly important. So because the data stays within Microsoft World Garden, we are able to piggyback off of a lot of those certifications and meet certain requirements that allow us to expand where we sell our product to outside of scopes that we couldn't reach ourselves.
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Pros
Grafana Labs
  • Access to many open-source dashboards, access to add many data-sources to gather and visualize data from.
  • Grafana Loki does well gathering of logs from various data-sources, we can also filter the logs based on our needs.
  • One stop solution for all the logs and monitoring.
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Microsoft
  • It is a good tool for threat detection and analysis of the threats. We are using this tool for real time threat detection on our employee machines as well as some servers.
  • It provides various options for collecting data sources by leveraging multiple sources using data connectors. This helps us in gathering data from multiple sources such as our servers as well as our employee machines.
  • One good thing about this tool is automated incident response thereby increasing the security of servers.
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Cons
Grafana Labs
  • Offer log suggestions.
  • Offer basic query syntax check.
  • Offer data range controls.
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Microsoft
  • It takes some time to learn how to use and install it properly, and it does not connect effectively with external PaaS systems such as Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and so on.
  • Microsoft can simplify the display of the logs to make them easier to study, and the user interface occasionally delays, which can also be enhanced.
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Usability
Grafana Labs
Grafana Loki makes accessing and viewing service logs easy for engineers who may not be familiar with going into service. However, useability can be limited if engineers are unaware of what the queries should look like or where in the service to direct Loki to look for logging.
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Microsoft
The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.
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Support Rating
Grafana Labs
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Microsoft
Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.
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Alternatives Considered
Grafana Labs
First and foremost if Grafana Loki is based on CNCF open source projects so organizations can get freedom to choice to configure it at your own other main thing is Grafana Loki is totally free of cost and we can deploy it on our infrastructure. On compared with other managed services like Datadog, New Relic it is very expensive and we also don't have much control on the tools we use.
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Microsoft
I use most of the Sims that are out there, but RSAs, old Sim Log, logic, elastic, a lot of them. Sumo, we checked out Sumo too. We're a Microsoft shop and live almost entirely on top of a Microsoft ecosystem. We are considering other Microsoft security products to integrate with it. So it made a lot of sense to really drive as hard as we could Microsoft Sim at least for a few years to make sure it would fit us.
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Professional Services
Grafana Labs
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Microsoft
Did not use professional services
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Return on Investment
Grafana Labs
  • Only indexes the metadata
  • Have to manage it by ourselves compare to other available managed monitoring and log observability solutions
  • Dedicated person or team of SRE to manage the monitoring and observability solutions
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Microsoft
  • Log Management is a little difficult in-house as everything is situated on the cloud.
  • Paying according to the throughput of the data can be costlier for some organizations.
  • Excellent integration and log parsing for Microsoft products save many man-hours for the SIEM admin to focus on other things.
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