We performed a comparison between LogPoint and Microsoft Sentinel based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: LogPoint is noted for its advanced technology and extensive log-collection, parsing, and analysis mechanisms. Microsoft Sentinel effectively identifies threats and integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft solutions. Users say Sentinel makes it easy to find information quickly using KQL queries and praised the solution’s centralized log storage. LogPoint can improve its dashboard customization, resource efficiency, network hierarchy diagrams, and agent deployment. Microsoft Sentinel could benefit from simplifying documentation, enhancing collaboration with security vendors, and improving data ingestion. Users also want more robust threat intelligence and UEBA features.
Service and Support: LogPoint's customer service receives high marks for its exceptional technical support and responsive engineers, but some users reported delays in receiving help from higher-level support. Some users praised Microsoft’s quick response times and expertise, while others experienced challenges and support delays.
Ease of Deployment: The complexity of LogPoint's initial setup can range from complex and time-consuming to fast and easy, depending on the user's experience and the organization’s size. Some users said that deploying Microsoft Sentinel is straightforward, while others consider it to be moderately complex.
Pricing: LogPoint's fixed pricing model is seen as cost-effective and competitive. Microsoft Sentinel charges customers based on data usage, and it can be expensive for users who need to ingest data from non-cloud sources.
ROI: Logpoint makes costs more predictable and enables companies to generate revenue through security operation services. Some Sentinel users have seen cost savings, while others have not experienced any financial benefits.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer LogPoint over Microsoft Sentinel. LogPoint leverages advanced machine-learning technology and offers comprehensive log collection capabilities. Users like the solution's search features and dashboards. LogPoint's fixed pricing model makes annual budgeting simple and predictable. Microsoft Sentinel needs improvements in documentation, integration with other security vendors, and data ingestion.
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the combination of the software and the support that they have."
"The flexibility of the search feature and the solution's analytics features are the most valuable parts of the solution."
"The main advantage of Logpoint is the support service. They reply within ten minutes to an hour to our queries."
"What I like best about LogPoint is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions. LogPoint also has better dashboards which I find valuable. I also like that you can create use cases based on your assets."
"The search feature is valuable. The dashboards are also valuable for our bosses. Another valuable feature, which is the main feature of the product, is the centralization of all the logs."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We like the user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) and find it valuable."
"They basically charge you in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is the alert notifications, which are categorized by severity levels: informational, low, medium, and high."
"Microsoft Sentinel enables you to ingest data from the entire ecosystem and that connection of data helps you to monitor critical resources and to know what's happening in the environment."
"The analytic rule is the most valuable feature."
"Sentinel's most important feature is the ability to centralize all the logs in one place. There's no need to search multiple systems for information."
"We’ve got process improvement that's happened across multiple different fronts within the organization, within our IT organization based on this tool being in place."
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"What is most useful, is that it has a good connection to the Microsoft ecosystem, and I think that's the key part."
"Sentinel improved how we investigate incidents. We can create watchlists and update them to align with the latest threat intelligence. The information Microsoft provides enables us to understand thoroughly and improve as we go along. It allows us to provide monthly reports to our clients on their security posture."
"Logpoint is not flexible. Its documentation is not user-friendly."
"We were missing visuals and graphics. Recently, a new version seems to have come out, and it has a new graphical user interface. When I was integrating it, it was usable, but the GUI needed improvement."
"It is a good product, but its interface or GUI could be better."
"It is complicated to collect daily logs from other systems."
"In terms of functionality, it is very good. The only issue is the documentation. Its documentation should be improved."
"Sometimes, the product is not stable."
"LogPoint must find a way to integrate the servers without agents."
"One of the downsides is it is not a SaaS solution. It must be on-premises."
"The solution could improve the playbooks."
"The playbook development environment is not as rich as it should be. There are multiple occasions when we face problems while creating the playbook."
"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."
"The AI capabilities must be improved."
"Microsoft Sentinel should provide an alternative query language to KQL for users who lack KQL expertise."
"I would like to see more AI used in processes."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. It''s a small improvement that they could make if they wanted to."
"The product can be improved by reducing the cost to use AI machine learning."
Logpoint is ranked 24th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 20 reviews while Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 85 reviews. Logpoint is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Sentinel is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Logpoint writes "Good technical support but it is complex to use and resource-heavy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Sentinel writes "Gives a comprehensive and holistic view of the ecosystem and improves visibility and the ability to respond". Logpoint is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Rapid7 InsightIDR, LogRhythm SIEM and Wazuh, whereas Microsoft Sentinel is most compared with AWS Security Hub, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Security. See our Logpoint vs. Microsoft Sentinel report.
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