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Elastic Security vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
Elastic Security offers cost-effective ROI within two years despite mixed reviews on premium support and varying user experiences.
Sentiment score
7.2
Users find Microsoft Sentinel offers positive ROI through improved visibility, automation, and efficiency, despite initial costs and quantification challenges.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Elastic Security's community support is praised, but technical support experiences vary, with mixed reviews on responsiveness and service quality.
Sentiment score
6.9
Microsoft Sentinel support is mixed; premium plans and better Microsoft relationships yield favorable experiences despite some challenges.
Providing necessary assistance efficiently.
Their solutions' integration simplifies resolving issues compared to those caused by third-party products.
Working with a Sentinel engineer helped us tune settings effectively.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Elastic Security scales well across environments, needing planning but suiting diverse business sizes and cloud infrastructure scalability.
Sentiment score
8.1
Microsoft Sentinel's cloud architecture ensures scalable, flexible data handling with minimal management, supporting large user bases and easy integration.
Office 365 and Exchange are running on it, covering about 35,000 users efficiently.
As our organization uses Microsoft Azure and Defender, everything grows together, and we can integrate various features seamlessly.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Elastic Security is reliable and stable, with configuration-dependent performance; careful planning ensures stability despite occasional upgrade issues.
Sentiment score
7.9
Microsoft Sentinel is highly stable and reliable, with users praising its performance and noting rare, minor configuration issues.
In terms of stability, I would rate Elastic a solid eight out of ten.
So far, we have not experienced any issues, and it has been stable from the beginning.
Sentinel's stability is great.
 

Room For Improvement

Elastic Security needs better authentication, user interface, AI features, documentation, integrations, marketing, and improved scalability for user satisfaction.
Microsoft Sentinel users seek improved third-party integration, user-friendly features, enhanced threat intelligence, and streamlined data management to reduce costs.
CrowdStrike and Defender have more established threat intelligence integration due to having a larger client base.
We lack integration for Syslogs into Sentinel.
Currently, we are happy to have a way in the middle with not so much cost, but it would be nice to have the ability to enhance the automation of workflows based on learned incidents.
 

Setup Cost

Elastic Security is cost-effective with open-source options, offering flexible plans but may incur costs for advanced features.
Microsoft Sentinel offers cost-effective, consumption-based pricing, benefiting from Azure integration with careful data management to control expenses.
The pricing is reasonable, especially for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), making it a viable option for businesses building their security infrastructure.
We already had the necessary licensing for Sentinel, so we didn't need to spend extra money.
 

Valuable Features

Elastic Security offers rapid searching, scalability, visualization, machine learning, and seamless integration, making it user-friendly and cost-effective.
Microsoft Sentinel offers seamless integration, AI-driven threat detection, and automation, providing comprehensive security and ease of setup for organizations.
Elastic Security is as flexible and configurable as Microsoft Sentinel.
Custom workbooks are valuable. It is one of the crucial points in dealing with potential security threats in an automated way without requiring too much manpower.
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Security
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
5th
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
6th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (16th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (8th)
Microsoft Sentinel
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
3rd
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (5th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Elastic Security is 7.7%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 8.7%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Gajewski Marek - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides good anomaly detection and connectivity reporting
We previously used Splunk but switched to Elastic Security because Splunk was more expensive. Feature-wise, both tools are pretty much the same. They have almost the same functions. Elastic Security has a much better AI assistant that allows you to ask questions like a normal person. With Elastic Security, I can also predict the price and how much it will cost. Splunks's pricing depends on how much data we use and the different add-ons I have to add. The pricing is much better with Elastic Security.
Nitin Arora - PeerSpot reviewer
Gives us one place to investigate and respond to threats, and automation eliminates manual work
They can work on the EDR side of things. It is already really superb, because of the kinds of features we get with the EDR solution. It's not a standard EDR and they have recently enhanced things. But the problem is with onboarding devices. I have different OS flavors, including a large number of Linux, Windows, macOS, and some on-prem machines as well. Every time we need to onboard these kinds of machines into the EDR, we need to do it with the help of Intune, to sync up the devices, and do the configuration. I'm looking for something on the EDR side that will reduce this kind of work. They can eliminate having to do manual configuration for the machines, and check the different types of configurations for each OS. In some cases, it does not support some OSs. If they could reduce this type of work, that would be really amazing.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
University
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Datadog vs ELK: which one is good in terms of performance, cost and efficiency?
With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good c...
What do you like most about Elastic Security?
Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Security?
Elastic Security is cost-effective compared to Defender and CrowdStrike. The pricing is reasonable, especially for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), making it a viable option for businesses building...
Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?
Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and its Threat Hunting functionality with AI available as templates or customized ...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?
We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...
 

Also Known As

Elastic SIEM, ELK Logstash
Azure Sentinel
 

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Sample Customers

Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care
Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.
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