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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Sentinel

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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

    Splunk Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    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
    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
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    it is easy to use Microsoft Sentinel and has faster deployment and advanced artificial intelligence than splunk
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    As mentioned, the product was part of the purchase of several Microsoft Suites that we did earlier last year and with 200 licenses included, we can exclude those from the other SIEM and SOAR product, it just work well with the Microsoft's environment that we partially have
    Is …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    Best customization. Vendor agnostic
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    Vs elastic:
    - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations
    - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    59 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    71 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Sentinel
    8.5
    34 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection9.034 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Correlation8.835 Ratings8.419 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.435 Ratings9.220 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.333 Ratings7.220 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.933 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces8.435 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection8.030 Ratings8.217 Ratings
    Data integration/API management8.433 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining9.031 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.733 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation8.232 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management7.35 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.733 Ratings8.711 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (74 ratings)
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (27 ratings)
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft SentinelSplunk Cloud Platform
    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
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    Cisco
    Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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    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.
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    Cisco
    • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
    • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
    • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
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    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.
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    Cisco
    • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
    • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
    • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
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    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.
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    Cisco
    Splunk AI Assistant for SPL is good tool, as I said, it is really useful for educational purpose, taking in its hands small and simple tasks (ex:small query dashboard,...), but it's not a ten because the contextual memory for complex issues/dashboarding/reports etc can be limited, and can sometime suggets none optimized query which are not always checked by teammates and can cause issue on the long term.
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    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!
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    Cisco
    Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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    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.
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    Cisco
    Vs elastic: - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead - Splunk Cloud Platform's detection engineering more mature vs Sentinel: - SPL more powerful than KQL for custom analytics - Better cross-platform visibility (non-Azure environments) vs Datadog - SPL enables deeper forensic Investigations - Superior compliance/audit capabilities
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    Cisco
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    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.
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    Cisco
    • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
    • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
    • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
    • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
    • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
    Incentivized
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