Microsoft Sentinel vs. Splunk SOAR

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel

102 Reviews and Ratings

Splunk SOAR

Splunk SOAR

84 Reviews and Ratings

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 SOAR	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Splunk now offers a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform via its acquisition of Phantom. Splunk Security Orchestration and Automation (Splunk SOAR) provides playbook automation and is available as a standalone solution.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk SOAR

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 SOAR
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk SOAR
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 SOAR Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk SOAR Splunk SOAR is one of the more easier to use SOAR products because it gives you the ability to basically write a python script directly as a playbook rather than having to have logic steps built for each decision and only run one thing at a time. I have had previous SOAR … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk SOAR Writing custom code is the only other tool I've used and done. Not sure what other tool similar to SOAR is out there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk SOAR Splunk SOAR is one of the more easier to use SOAR products because it gives you the ability to basically write a python script directly as a playbook rather than having to have logic steps built for each decision and only run one thing at a time. I have had previous SOAR … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammed Ali CETİN senior Security Engineer Chose Splunk SOAR If you use Splunk SIEM, you might wanna use Splunk soar, too. one vendor for SIEM and SOAR, and you do not need to think about integration, etc. Easy to use if we compare to other SOARs, chat and war rooms are great, and almost every action that we need is already created in … Incentivized Helpful? Pavan sreevatsav Akula Cybersecurity Analyst Chose Splunk SOAR Simple to utilize GUI, you'll have with you possess add-ons, Numerous integrations in existing arrangements and tools. It could be an extraordinary organizational tool that can be utilized for any kind of coordination, not as it were security. Incentivized Helpful? Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Chose Splunk SOAR We are a Splunk Partner and I know Splunk Phantom, for this reason we usually propose it, but I don't deeply know other competitor products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Splunk SOAR Splunk Phantom integrates well with Splunk ES and has many integrations. One thing that I liked about XSOAR as compared to Phantom is that it has an "app-store" where you can download not only app integrations (similar to Phantom) but Playbooks and dashboards as well. Incentivized Helpful? JP Julie Pierce SOC Engineer Chose Splunk SOAR Splunk SOAR has multi vendor friendly design that suits our MSP model. Qradar on the other hand has deployment complexity and dependency on IBM's Qradar, which is less appealing for us since our clients run everything from Sentinel to elastic Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk SOAR

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 SOAR - 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	7.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	6.40 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	6.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk SOAR
Small Businesses	LevelBlue USM Anywhere Score 3.7 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10	Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk SOAR
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Sentinel	Splunk SOAR
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	Our company has very complex and dynamic security operations because of the large number of security tools and systems that we need to manage and coordinate. Moreover, it helps us to meet many regulatory and compliance requirements because it helps us to automate and document our security operations. We also use it to streamline our security operations and improve our response to potential threats. Incentivized PK Priya Kumar Security Engineer 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 security orchestration and integration capability that supports multiple tools. Easy coding that automates our security actions. Enables us to easily collaborate and respond to security issues faster. Splunk SOAR is a flexible product that is easy to deploy. Efficient tracking and monitoring capability. Excellent real-time reporting functionality. Incentivized Angelica Cavalli Senior Software Engineer 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	A lack of instruction It can be difficult to contact the support staff. Limited experience from current users. It takes some effort to set up and learn new technology at first. More assistance is required from the support staff. The product's price needs to go down. Cost of the larger version. Incentivized Pavan sreevatsav Akula Cybersecurity Analyst Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	As we already have a lot of clients being catered with Splunk SOAR and because Splunk SOAR is robust and efficient, we are already using it, and we have understood the product to a certain extent, I feel we are personally more enticed to use and scale it to a lot of business. Incentivized Gaurav S Senior Security Specialist 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	Building playbooks through the visual editor is fine for basic tasks, but once you start chaining complex logic or integrating 3rd party APIs you hit a wall that requires deep scripting knowledge. Incentivized JP Julie Pierce SOC Engineer Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	It has APIs that are useful for integration with third party solutions as well as for absorbing large volumes of data from our servers, networks and apps. Splunk SOAR offers a variety of playbooks that we use in automating workflows for migrating data and for analyzing the data to ensure its security. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Splunk Support is always great! In addition the Community is very efficient and active. Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
In-Person Training	No answers on this topic	I never followed an in-person training, I gave my evaluation based on the online training Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	I followed training for Phantom admins and it opened a world for me Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	I already said that the main key insight is the knowledge of Phantom, so a detailed training for all the people involeved. 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	If you use Splunk SIEM, you might wanna use Splunk soar, too. one vendor for SIEM and SOAR, and you do not need to think about integration, etc. Easy to use if we compare to other SOARs, chat and war rooms are great, and almost every action that we need is already created in Splunk SOAR. Incentivized Muhammed Ali CETİN senior Security Engineer Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	me and the customers I encountered found it flexible and scalable Incentivized Giuseppe Cusello GRC Director 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	The playbooks are valuable. They are the core component. Being able to implement and build a code process to work through and scale out what we want to do is valuable Before its use, analyzing each email would take at least 15 to 20 minutes, with some complex cases taking up to 30 minutes...With the automation provided by Splunk Phantom, we could significantly reduce the amount of time and human effort required to complete this task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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