Microsoft Sentinel vs. Rapid7 InsightIDR

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Sentinel	Score 8.6 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
InsightIDR	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	In addition to their incident response service, Rapid7 offers InsightIDR, a combined XDR and SIEM that provides user behavior and threat analytics.	$5.89 per month per asset

Pricing

Microsoft Sentinel

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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

InsightIDR Advanced: $5.89
per month per asset

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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*500 asset minimum. Billed annually. All amounts are shown in U.S. dollars. International prices vary.

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Pricing Info

Community Pulse
	Microsoft Sentinel	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Sentinel IS Ian Stuebe Project Manager 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 Anonymous 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? RD Richard Dornhart National Security Practice Manager 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 Anonymous 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? HP Himanshu Pawar Manager 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 Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 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? EB Edward Broderick CISO Chose Microsoft Sentinel 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel The SecureWorks product is a more mature product. We prefer the SecureWorks product over Microsoft Sentinel at this point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel The key advantage of using Sentinel lies in Microsoft already being a renowned name in cloud services. Hence, the Collection of data at the cloud scale across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and especially in the MS Cloud, is super easy. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel ArcSight is an on-prem solution that has a different approach than Sentinel. In a basis this product is more complex to maintain and deploy. The query functionality in Sentinel is more powerful and easier to maintain. ArcSight has a much slower performance and an interface that … Incentivized Helpful? Namandeep Bhatia Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer Chose Microsoft Sentinel We checked, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). In my opinion, Microsoft Sentinel is beter wit AI capacity and good community. Incentivized Helpful? Glenn H. Miller Chief Engineer Chose Microsoft Sentinel We don't need to maintain a third-party SaaS solution or spend any time integrating it since Microsoft Sentinel is the ideal option to give a single point of attack detection and alert monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel really goes the extra mile when it comes to an SIEM that slowly improves toward a proper SOAR, this may be the best selling point of the entire solution. Highly scalable, cloud-based, and nearly perfect when dealing with Microsoft-based infrastructures, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel No, this is the only one. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Most of those have been out in the industry for a longer time, so they have a lot more user friendliness to them. So I'd say it's in the mix. It's just not as high as it should be or I would expect it to be. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Previous to Azure Sentinel, we were using the McAfee SIM and it just wasn't keeping up with the times and that was the choice of moving to Azure Sentinel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel We just stick with Sentinel because it works well with our Suite Office 65. Incentivized Helpful?	InsightIDR Azhar Chaudri Cyber Security Training Specialist Chose InsightIDR N/A Incentivized Helpful? Varun Khare Senior Analyst Chose InsightIDR The biggest advantage it has the lightweight agent and smooth and less traffic chaos in network during log collection. Cloud Security always require extra efforts but InsightIDR reduce that burden as it has highly anticipated agents to which knows what they need to do when they … Incentivized Helpful? AE Allan Crittenden Edwards Security Analyst Chose InsightIDR Other products are OK, but they lack the robust permissions and their interfaces are much much less intuitive. Rapid7's prioritization system for vulnerabilities makes more sense given their context as the developers of Metasploit. We thought we might be able to switch and save … Incentivized Helpful? Bhuwan Chandra Business Development Manager Chose InsightIDR We tried other solutions, but our Network, which is mostly in different locations with different OEMS , was well suited by Rapid7. Rapid7 works with different workflows and SIEM solutions, which was a requirement of the SOC solution. Visibility allows the security operation to … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Goodhue Network Security Specialist Chose InsightIDR Have not used other tools Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Many of the top-tier providers of this technology do a comparable job. However, we selected Rapid7 because of their reputation in the area of user behavior analytics, cost, # of SOC locations (due to our selection of their MDR service), support, company growth in other areas … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Both products would do what we needed them to, but Rapid7 InsightIDR made more sense from a cost perspective. We did a proof of concept of both products, and they were pretty evenly matched in their own ways. Forescout had a better interface, but in the end the interface of … Incentivized Helpful? SS SP Singh Sr. DE/ML Chose InsightIDR None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InsightIDR Between Rapid7 InsightIDR and Crowdstrike, we liked Rapid7 InsightIDR due to the functionality of the system and the features Rapid7 InsightIDR has. Rapid7 InsightIDR was very easy to deploy in our environment to our endpoint devices. We like the scanning capabilities and the … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Sentinel

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Sentinel 7.3 Ratings 6% below category average	Rapid7 InsightIDR - Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Correlation	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	6.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data integration/API management	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining	6.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	7.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft Sentinel	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Small Businesses	LevelBlue USM Anywhere Score 3.8 out of 10	Bitdefender GravityZone Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Sentinel	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Sentinel	Rapid7 InsightIDR
Likelihood to Recommend	We use it because when a user sees the suspicious activity on his account, Microsoft Sentinel gives alerts to the user's system and the admin system as well. When a user of one of our systems clicked a spam email, that email was trying to install a virus on our server, but Microsoft Sentinel gave an alert to the user and admin both, so that is why our team was able to fix that issue with Microsoft Sentinel very fast. However, it will not be the best option for you if your team is utilizing every feature but you are on a tight budget. IS Ian Stuebe Project Manager Read full review	It has been brilliant for us in terms of understanding the behaviour affecting our endpoints and assets. We have full visibility of our alerts, which menas we can act on them immediately. We use a single pain of glass with dashboards that can be easily drilled down into to get further information. It has laso helped us eo create bespoke reports for senios Managmeent, while at the same time supports other teams like Network Mnagement and Operations. Incentivized Azhar Chaudri Cyber Security Training Specialist Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Rapid7 InsightIDR does a very good job at keeping virus definitions up to date so that our threat intelligence is very up to date when knowing what to protect against. It helps us by scanning all of our infrastructure components and highlights where improvements need to be made in security so we can be proactive with our security initiatives. It has automated response mechanisms to triage and resolve any potentials risks allowing us to save time in the long run. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Glenn H. Miller Chief Engineer Read full review	Sometimes Rapid7 InsightIDR will be too locked down and without knowing will block applications and processes needed for day to day operation. System scans with Rapid7 InsightIDR can be very bandwidth-heavy on the network and system resources. From a recent incident, we have seen more and more false positives from Rapid7 InsightIDR on areas that we know are secure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	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. Incentivized Flavio Pereira Analista de sistemas Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 Wazuh. It lags in third-party integrations and syslog parsing. Organizations choose Microsoft Sentinel for its cost-effectiveness, automation, and Microsoft synergy, especially in Azure-heavy environments, though Splunk and Exabeam lead in flexibility and UEBA, respectively. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Between Rapid7 InsightIDR and Crowdstrike, we liked Rapid7 InsightIDR due to the functionality of the system and the features Rapid7 InsightIDR has. Rapid7 InsightIDR was very easy to deploy in our environment to our endpoint devices. We like the scanning capabilities and the console we felt was very easy to use and can be easily caught up to our IT staff. Also during vulnerability scans, we felt that Rapid7 InsightIDR was able to detect more and any competitor out there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	As any cybersecurity product, this has to be more with risk to avoid loss in case of a ransomware that more than relate to a productivity increase. Maybe the impact could be that instead of having people that are checking 24/7 the dashboard, you could implement Sentinel and have less people checking that or people with less expertise. So the saving will be a minor but will be a saving in the cost of your team. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Rapid7 InsightIDR has allowed us to be proactive in securing our systems as the vulnerability scans give us a lens at what we need to fortify when it comes to security. In recent incidents its allowed us to save time and money as it mostly detects issues accurately and we are able to bring systems back quickly without too much downtime for the business. With recent updates, we are confident that Rapid7 InsightIDR is a good solution for the long run as they are always making adjustments to their platform and improving it with every release. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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