Microsoft Sentinel vs. Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Enterprise Security

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
Splunk Enterprise Security	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	Splunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

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 Sentinel	Splunk Enterprise Security
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk Enterprise Security
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?	Splunk Enterprise Security Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security LogRhythm is good for a team comprising mostly non-technical IT users. Unlike Splunk, it has a GUI log search and a good ticketing system. Splunk is better than Logrhythm for me as it provides me with the ultimate flexibility to write custom queries. Scalyr is a good tool and … Incentivized Helpful? Sam Babbitt System/Network Administrator Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF), Juniper Mist Edge, Wazuh Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security I did not choose this product. Overall although I like ES, I think Sentinel in certain ways is the superior product. The Kusto Query language is a lot easier to use. For instance anything that requires manual parsing in query can be more difficult with this product. Also some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is much faster and easier to integrate logs and work on alerts to detect suspicious security events. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security AlienVault is much more user and beginner friendly, however Splunk ES very much so provides more capability for mass data manipulation, report and dashboard customization, and trend analytics. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security These two really helps in better way and low cost and high productivity. Automatic detection ML help you to detect many ways and create cases based on risk score GRS UBA helps to protect organization from data ,via sharing through emails and USB s . Gurucu product license once … Incentivized Helpful? JC Joe Contreras Senior Security Specialist Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk is way better. Support is awesome too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk enterprise is the only solution that we’ve been able to identify that provides risk based alerting, which allows our SOC to reduce analyst fatigue which would be a huge problem without it. Before RBA, there were thousands of alerts a day and it was impossible to review … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security I believe it is definitely a leader in the security space Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security I consider Splunk Enterprise Security to have the strongest deployment methodology and troubleshoot features. Other products also provide good solutions such as Riverbed, Broadcom and Solarwinds but I think Splunk Enterprise Security is a great and trustable option to use for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Even though Splunk ES is not the cheapest solution on the markt, we found it was still cheaper compared to Secureworks we had before. Also the level of flexibility and "thinking with the customer" is much better now. Incentivized Helpful? Ramu S R Junior Network Administrator Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Traditional hardware logging mechanisms do not provide in-depth research data on the threats and signatures, while Splunk Enterprise Security could easily achieve this feat. Incentivized Helpful? AMJITH LAL S Senior Network Administrator Chose Splunk Enterprise Security FortiAnalzer is a hardware solution, but with Splunk, we could identify as well get the correct solution for the active threats and too with accurate and precise detailing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security - Schema on the fly indexing --> Gives you faster index searches. Even if you use Datamodes, it's 100x time faster as well. - Correlation with other domains easily gives you total visibility and reduces the time to investigate and understand the problem. - With lookups and trust, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Securonix does not nearly meet the scale, extensibility, and maturity that Splunk ES offers. However, when looking at the MSP architecture options, Securonix is a much more flexible platform for multi-tenanting. So, Splunk ES for captive SOC platforms and Securonix for … Incentivized Helpful? Saibal Banerjee Cyber Security Consultant Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk ES is by far the best solution in the market as per flexibility, features and support. Cost-wise, it is the most expensive option to go with, but that has its own advantages as the product that we get is premium and superior to other SIEM. The best thing about Spunk ES … Incentivized Helpful? Jacob Gonzales IDS/SIEM Engineering Supervisor Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Enterprise Security allows for data normalization that does not compare to other SIEMs such as QRadar or Trustwave. QRadar requires custom dsm parsers before the data can be onboarded. I appreciate that Splunk Enterprise Security can ingest any source of data and … Incentivized Helpful? Ernesto J. Meléndez Sr. Security Engineer Chose Splunk Enterprise Security All Splunk products are easy to integrate, and they collaborate in the security of our organization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security N/A - Have only used Splunk Enterprise Security since coming to Deloitte Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security LogRhythm is a superior SIEM from a purely security/SOC perspective in my opinion. However, Splunk shines if you have an expert behind the wheel or if the organization is quite large - as my experience with LogRhythm indicated it couldn't handle large-size organizations. Incentivized Helpful? ME Matt Esolen Cyber Security Engineer Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk does not hide its correlation and analytics logic from users as much as other solutions in the same space. While some features are harder to access the underlying information is all accessible and tunable. This gives Splunk an edge over other solutions that lock the … Incentivized Helpful? Shilpi Jain Intermediate Enterprise Support Analyst Chose Splunk Enterprise Security We have both of these instances in our organization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk enterprise security works great in Splunk Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk Enterprise Security Splunk Enterprise Security is superior in the logging aspect and searching. That’s why it was easier to pick switch to Splunk Enterprise Security. Arcsight is however superior in the correlation and stability aspect. It’s very reliable and stable that we sometimes forget that … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

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	Splunk Enterprise Security 8.4 Ratings 8% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection	8.20 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Correlation	7.10 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	6.90 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	7.30 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	6.50 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	7.50 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	5.00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Data integration/API management	6.40 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining	6.70 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	7.80 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	7.30 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	9.00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	8.50 Ratings	9.20 Ratings

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Medium-sized Companies	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk Enterprise Security
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk Enterprise Security
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	Well-Suited Scenarios: Real-Time Threat Response: ES excels in swiftly detecting and responding to security threats through data correlation. Compliance Management: ES streamlines compliance with detailed logs and reports, ideal for regulated industries. User Behavior Analytics: Effective in monitoring user and entity behavior, particularly for insider threat detection. Large-Scale Environments: Valuable for organizations with diverse data sources and high volumes of data. Incident Investigation: ES aids in post-incident analysis, reconstructing events to understand root causes. Less Appropriate Scenarios: Smaller Organizations: For simpler setups, ES may be complex and costly. Static Environments: In low-risk settings, ES's advanced features may be unnecessary. Limited Resources: Tight budgets or sparse IT resources may hinder effective ES use. Lack of In-House Expertise: Without security experts, optimizing ES can be challenging. Budget Constraints: ES may be cost-prohibitive for budget-conscious organizations, prompting consideration of more affordable alternatives. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Its best feature is its user interface, which is easy to navigate and understand. All you need is a little tutorial on how to use the Splunk query language and you're done. Logs can be easily uploaded or shared across multiple platforms and display a highly insightful graphical representations of data using graphs, tables, and many other formats. 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	To identify User Behaviour analysis is lacking component which we get in Splunk UBA. The documentation part is hard to work on because if the new user tries to learn ES then the documentation is not user-friendly. ES must ass more Knowledge objects by default to make security-related aspects more reliable and enhance the details. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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	You definitely need to learn how to use Splunk to get the most of the tool. There are many courses available for free to get up to speed on the usability of the tool but it's not that simple. It will take time to digest all the data and to understand how to query for what you are looking for. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	I'm not an ES user, but, in my implementation I usually try to prevent all service stops to guarantee High availability to the final customers. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	ES requires a very performant infrastructure: if it has it's performant, otherwise not. I had situation with a very performant infrastructure and I didn't notized that it was a distributed architecture, it seemed that there ware few data on my PC, othewise I experienced less performant infrastructures with less performaces. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
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	It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this. Incentivized AE Allan Crittenden Edwards Security Analyst Read full review
In-Person Training	No answers on this topic	I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
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	LogRhythm is good for a team comprising mostly non-technical IT users. Unlike Splunk, it has a GUI log search and a good ticketing system. Splunk is better than Logrhythm for me as it provides me with the ultimate flexibility to write custom queries. Scalyr is a good tool and quite frankly lot faster than Splunk. However, I prefer Splunk because of its better Dashboards and panel customization abilities. Elastic is another amazing tool. It is hard to choose between the two especially because both have different sets of logs on them. I use both. Elastic for internal server logs, Splunk for everything else. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	We have on prem splunk and it’s mostly east to setup, but we have issues keeping data separated between customer splunk deployments while at the same time only having to look at one SIEM to address events in every environment 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	We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject. Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years. In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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