We performed a comparison between Microsoft Sentinel and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: 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. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. 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. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Some users praised Microsoft’s quick response times and expertise, while others experienced challenges and support delays. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory overall, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Some users said that deploying Microsoft Sentinel is straightforward, while others consider it to be moderately complex. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Microsoft Sentinel charges customers based on data usage, and it can be expensive for users who need to ingest data from non-cloud sources. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Some Sentinel users have seen cost savings, while others have not experienced any financial benefits. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Microsoft Sentinel over Wazuh. Users appreciate its advanced threat-hunting capabilities, automation, and analysis. Microsoft Sentinel also offers seamless integrations with different software platforms and provides a single pane of glass view of security incidents.
"The log analysis is excellent; it can predict what can or will happen regarding use patterns and vulnerabilities."
"It is quite efficient. It helps our clients in identifying their security issues and respond quickly. Our clients want to automate incident response and all those things."
"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."
"The solution offers a lot of data on events. It helps us create specific detection strategies."
"I've worked on most of the top SIEM solutions, and Sentinel has an edge in most areas. For example, it has built-in SOAR capabilities, allowing you to run playbooks automatically. Other vendors typically offer SOAR as a separate licensed solution or module, but you get it free with Sentinel. In-depth incident integration is available out of the box."
"The ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"The scalability is great. You can put unlimited logs in, as long as you can pay for it. There are commitment tiers, up to six terabytes per day, which is nowhere close to what any one of our customers is running."
"The automation rules and playbooks are the most useful that I've seen. A number of other places segregate the automation and playbook as separate tools, whereas Microsoft is a SIEM and SOAR tool in one."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"It's stable."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"Wazuh's most beneficial features for our security needs are flexibility, built-in rules, integration capabilities, and documentation."
"Wazuh offers numerous features, such as the ability to define custom rules for detecting malicious activities and remembering behaviors."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"Microsoft Sentinel is relatively expensive, and its cost should be improved."
"We are invoiced according to the amount of data generated within each log."
"The playbook development environment is not as rich as it should be. There are multiple occasions when we face problems while creating the playbook."
"They're giving us the queries so we can plug them right into Sentinel. They need to have a streamlined process for updating them in the tool and knowing when things are updated and knowing when there are new detections available from Microsoft."
"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."
"It would be good to have some connectors for third-party SIEM solutions. Many customers are struggling with the integration of Azure Sentinel with their on-premise SIEM. Microsoft is changing the log structure many times a year, which can corrupt a custom integration. It would be good to have some connectors developed by Microsoft or supply vendors, but they are not providing such functionality or tools."
"We're satisfied with the comprehensiveness of the security protection. That said, we do have issues sometimes where there have been global outages and we need to raise a ticket with Microsoft."
"One key area that can be improved is by building a strong integration with our XDR platform."
"There could be a hardware monitoring tool for the solution."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
"I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system"
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"The implementation is very complex."
"Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 85 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 38 reviews. Microsoft Sentinel is rated 8.2, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Sentinel writes "Gives a comprehensive and holistic view of the ecosystem and improves visibility and the ability to respond". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Microsoft Sentinel is most compared with AWS Security Hub, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security and Rapid7 InsightIDR, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Microsoft Sentinel vs. Wazuh report.
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