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What is Microsoft Sentinel?
Modernize your security operations center (SOC) with Microsoft Sentinel. Uncover sophisticated threats and respond decisively with an intelligent, comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing costs as much as 48 percent compared to legacy SIEM solutions.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+85 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Sentinel?
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Security Threat Visibility
Analytics and Reporting
Built-in SOAR capabilities
Data Security and Retention
Scalability and Network Performance
Log Collection
Incident Management and Remediation
Orchestration Automation and Response (NG)
Correlation
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
UEBA - User Environment Behavior Analytics (NG)
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Microsoft Sentinel Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2026
Solid tool when implementation is planned thorough
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Less Caring
- Less Generous
Aniket J.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2026
Best Security Tool For Cloud Endpoints & Servers
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Sentinel from other similar products?
This is best security tool from microsoft for cloud based servers and application with minimal implementation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Very few bugs and glitch are there when we implement in Server & VM in Azure
What do you dislike most about this product?
It does not support the Legacy App For which we need to purchase the another application.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great product for hybrid and cloud startup and enterprise, easy to implement and easy to use.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Uday P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2025
Powerful and Reliable EDR
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Sentinel from other similar products?
Microsoft Sentinel stands out for its seamless integration with Defender and Azure, providing unified visibility across endpoints and cloud workloads. Its AI-driven analytics and KQL-based threat hunting make detection and investigation faster. The automation through playbooks also improves incident response efficiency.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Microsoft Sentinel is its strong integration with Defender and other Microsoft tools, which gives complete visibility across the environment. The automation using playbooks and KQL-based threat hunting makes investigation and response much faster.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The main drawback is that Sentinel’s KQL queries have a learning curve for new users. Also, log ingestion costs can increase quickly if not properly optimized.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend planning your data ingestion carefully to manage costs and take time to learn KQL for better threat hunting. Once configured properly, Sentinel offers excellent visibility, automation, and response capabilities.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
