We performed a comparison between Sentinel and SolarWinds Security Event Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can fine-tune the SOAR and you'll be charged only when your playbooks are triggered. That is the beauty of the solution because the SOAR is the costliest component in the market today... but with Sentinel it is upside-down: the SOAR is the lowest-hanging fruit. It's the least costly and it delivers more value to the customer."
"We can use Sentinel's playbook to block threats. It covers all of the environment, giving us great visibility."
"The machine learning and artificial intelligence on offer are great."
"The UI-based analytics are excellent."
"It's pretty powerful and its performance is pretty good."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."
"Sentinel has features that have helped improve our security poster. It helped us in going ahead and identifying the gaps via analysis and focusing on the key elements."
"The Log analytics are useful."
"It makes everything easier by automating some tasks and growing with our needs."
"The most valuable feature of Sentinel is the dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the flexible log for identifying security threats inside an application. Sentinel is very good at this."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it provides a central locking system for many event sources."
"The tool is simple to use."
"Sentinel gave us logs to tell us what's going right and wrong in your environment so we could secure the network."
"The native integration with out-of-the box format is hassle free and allows data to be used advantageously."
"The solution lets us get all the logs properly and regularly monitor customer infrastructure."
"It performs network behavior monitoring, log monitoring, and disaster recovery monitoring."
"The out of the box reports and dashboard. It was easy to trim down these windows to something we could quickly use."
"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."
"It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"SolarWinds is easy to configure, and it provides timely alerts."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"SolarWinds is effective for server, network, and log monitoring. It's also good for IP address management. We also have a patch manager, but we're still working on getting that operational."
"There is room for improvement in entity behavior and the integration site."
"When we pass KPIs to the governance department, there's no option to provide rights to the data or dashboard to colleagues. We can use Power BI for this, but it isn't easy or convenient. They should just come up with a way to provide limited role-based access to auditing personnel"
"There are certain delays. For example, if an alert has been rated on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, it might take up to an hour for that alert to reach Sentinel. This should ideally take no more than one or two seconds."
"We'd like to see more connectors."
"Its implementation could be simpler. It is not really simple or straightforward. It is in the middle. Sometimes, connectors are a little bit complex."
"Sentinel's alerts and notifications are not fully optimized for mobile devices. The overall reporting and the analytics processes for the end user should also be improved. Also, the compatibility and availability of data sources and reports are not always perfect."
"If we want to use more features, we have to pay more. There are multiple solutions on the cloud itself, but the pricing model package isn't consistent, which is confusing to clients."
"Not all information shows up in Sentinel. Sometimes there are items provided in 365 and if you looked in Sentinel you would not see them and therefore think they do not exist. There can be discrepancies between Microsoft tools."
"I would like to see a better reporting work structure on the dashboard."
"There is no integration in the web-side of the tool."
"You need a lot of Unix scripting knowledge in order to manage the tool, which is one of the main issues that we faced."
"There is a need for more flexibility in customization, especially when working with different vendors and platforms."
"Creating a drag-and-drop dashboard or workbook in Sentinel is a little more complex compared to other tools like LogRhythm and IBM QRadar."
"This product's connection to certain types of cloud systems could be improved. We can do Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, but there are a lot of other things happening in the cloud that we do not connect well enough to. This product could be improved with better connection to cloud-based solutions."
"I rate Sentinel a six out of ten for scalability."
"It is an ancient product."
"Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."
"The product should improve the ease with which you can create event alerts. They are not as hard now but you need to have an easier way."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"The company had to use a third party for the implementation of the solution."
"It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery."
"It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution."
"I would like to be able to dig deeper into the visibility of events or incidents to determine whether they are malicious, such as by doing behavior analysis."
"We used the support from SolarWinds Security Event Manager and they are knowledgeable but challenging to get in contact with them."
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Sentinel is ranked 18th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 7 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 21st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 8 reviews. Sentinel is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Sentinel writes "An automated solution that helped me detect threats in less than half the time it used to take". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "It has all the features needed to satisfy our audit requirements ". Sentinel is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Google Chronicle Suite and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender XDR and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Sentinel vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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