Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel

178 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Sentinel	Score8.6 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

Microsoft Sentinel

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

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Sentinel
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft Sentinel
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Vesa Jordan CTO at Finnfund in Information Technology at Finnfund (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel Darktrace and Sentinel support each other well. We are using both of them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel is better for organizations that already use Microsoft products because it integrates easily with services like Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Microsoft 365.This provides a connected view of security alerts and makes investigation easier.Sentinel is also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel I've used Google SIEM as well as Splunk. There's little things that they all do well, but I think where Microsoft Sentinel really shines is in its query language. We chose this because, again, it integrates well with the ecosystem. So we just went full E5 on the licenses, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel The Hunter SIM product, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk. That's all we've evaluated. Because we're a Microsoft shop, top tier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Compared to platforms such as Splunk, LogRhythm, and Devo, Microsoft Sentinel’s cloud‑native, consumption‑based pricing model and reduced infrastructure overhead tend to offer better overall cost efficiency. This is especially true for organizations already invested in the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel These are all the Microsoft products. We have used Splunk. And again, I would say Microsoft Sentinel stacks up because it's a native tool that is more like an ecosystem. It's not a standalone tool. It's like if you're in the Microsoft stack, Microsoft Sentinel will stack up … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel gave us the opportunity to move to pay as you go model. This allows us to determine the value of a log source rather than paying a flat rate for data ingested or hosting a server ourself. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Most of our landscape, both on prem and cloude, is based in Microsoft technologies, while the unification of tools implies some risk, decreasing the vendor levels simplify integrations, and by scale, help us to reduce costs too. Yes, the tool itself is a good contender, but the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel They are for different use cases, field effect helps us monitor network traffic and decide what to do with it while Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence allows more robust monitoring and control over 365 variables such as emails that come in and out and Entra ID information. Incentivized Helpful? Mohamad Islam Hamadieh SOC Engineer in Engineering at Dell technology (Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel feels on another different level from these solutions , all in the cloud . No need for troubleshooting , deployment or upgrades. Constant updates from the vendor and good support Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel excels in cloud-native scalability, Microsoft ecosystem integration, and AI-driven threat detection with UEBA and Fusion rules, offering faster deployment and lower costs (48% cheaper per Forrester) than Splunk, QRadar, Exabeam, SentinelOne, Securonix, and … Incentivized Helpful? Ian Stuebe Project Manager in Information Technology at Apex Warehouse Systems (Warehousing, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel We decided to go with Microsoft Sentinel because it works really well with Microsoft tools we are already using. Microsoft Sentinel's intelligent features detect and resolve problems more quickly than Sumo Logic. It also allows us to pay for what we use and grow as we need. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well, primarily we use different stuff like CrowdStrike. We use different sign-on features. We primarily use those different products because we support a wider ecosystem. Incentivized Helpful? Richard Dornhart National Security Practice Manager in Sales at Data#3 (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel Splunk, Google, SecOps. I look at how it stacks up based on the fact that it's the primary solution that we sell. So I think it stacks up really well. Why do we select it? Well, we selected it primarily because we're a very large Microsoft partner. The technology is very good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well before there was Microsoft Sentinel, you had other competing products like ArcSight or Splunk, et cetera. I think they have their own qualities, but the Microsoft integration story is really why we're using it. Incentivized Helpful? Himanshu Pawar Manager in Sales at Alorica (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel In my opinion, Microsoft Sentinel is much more reliable and Trustworthy. They are a bigger name with bigger scope of use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel We use intune to protect endpoints and we pull logs from all the endpoints through the intune connector into the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and that way we can run rules on those logs to find anomalies. Incentivized Helpful? Harshit Lal security consultant in Information Technology at wipro (Information Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel it is easy to use Microsoft Sentinel and has faster deployment and advanced artificial intelligence than splunk Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Elastic seems to have a much better interface for log search and is able to filter out noise. Microsoft Sentinel also appears to generate a lot of false positives. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Elastic is some carbon for various use cases. So because Elastic is a very, very wrong history in the market. So Sentinel is very recent for products from my understanding. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well, we didn't select, we selected Sentinel for our Azure stuff, our Microsoft stuff, but we do use a different SIEM for the other stuff still. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Prior to using Sentinel, we were using Splunk specifically Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk Cloud, so their on-prem and their cloud-based products. We switched originally for cost reasons, specifically cost control, but I have found that the ability to create reports, the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel We've used Splunk before, but it really is just pick your poison. They're all very similar. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Sentinel Based on the overall infrastructure configuration that we have and also after analysing various solutions provided by Microsoft Sentinel, we came to a conclusion that the Microsoft Sentinel is the best option for us to help us in overall threat detection on our custom servers, … Incentivized Helpful? Ajay Sehgal Project Manager in Engineering at Pickright Technologies (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Sentinel Sentinel AI makes it a better choice. Also, its flexibility and customization make it a bit more costly than other competitors. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	99% Would buy again 73 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	94% Delivers good value for the price 59 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	96% Happy with the feature set 71 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	93% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 52 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
97% Implementation went as expected 66 Answers

Features

Microsoft Sentinel

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Microsoft Sentinel
Feature	Microsoft Sentinel 8.5 34 Ratings 7% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection	9.134 Ratings
Correlation	8.835 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	8.435 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	8.333 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	8.933 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	8.435 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	8.030 Ratings
Data integration/API management	8.433 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining	9.031 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	8.733 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	8.232 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	7.35 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	8.733 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft Sentinel
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Security QRadar SIEM Score8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Score8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.5 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (27 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (3 ratings)
Professional Services	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft What has really impressed me is how Microsoft Sentinel delivers centralised security monitoring across multiple data sources in our enterprise. It has reduced cost of handling large security logs by collecting and analyzing data without friction of managing traditional SIEM infrastructure. It is easy to work to integrate with Azure logs for quick data analysis. Incentivized Andrew Stowell Data Engineer Read full review
Pros	Microsoft The visual presentation of data is terrific, so including what we had prior to Microsoft Sentinel, it presents data in a much more usable way, so that's been quite refreshing. It's not quite as complex to understand what you're looking at. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft One feature that I would like to see improved is probably the log parsing. I think one of the big things that Splunk does better than Microsoft Sentinel is that it makes it easy to bring in new log streams of arbitrary formats and parse them out into columns and tables. Microsoft Sentinel is a lot more involved, though. It takes a lot more manual work to bring in different log sources and parse them out. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Mirosoft sentinel is easy to use once the inital setup is completed.The dashboard and centralized alerts make it simple to monitor security events and investigate incidents.Integration with other microsoft security tool is also helpful.Some advanced features and configurations can take time to understand, but overall it provides good, user-friendly security monitoring. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft Microsoft support is one of the highest rated on the market. It has global and multilingual support. Calls can be made over the phone and the solution is virtually instantaneous with the help of Microsoft engineers. It's great! Incentivized Flavio Pereira Analista de sistemas Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Compared to platforms such as Splunk, LogRhythm, and Devo, Microsoft Sentinel’s cloud‑native, consumption‑based pricing model and reduced infrastructure overhead tend to offer better overall cost efficiency. This is especially true for organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, where Sentinel can deliver strong capabilities with a lower total cost of ownership. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Professional Services	Microsoft Did not use professional services Incentivized Michael Bobo IT Director Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft It's probably neutral. We see value, but it's, again, tick that kind of expense stuff. We're getting more insight and value into what is going on in that cloud workspace, but just noting the cost. So it's probably neutral. I'm not directly responsible, so the full kind of return on investment kind of cycle, that's someone else's problem. I'm like the end user. It's my team that will look at the data and look at the output of Microsoft Sentinel. So the ROI, someone else can worry about that. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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