# Microsoft Sentinel Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Microsoft Sentinel Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Microsoft Sentinel

## What is Microsoft Sentinel?

Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance.

## What is Microsoft Sentinel used for?

[SIEM](https://www.capterra.com/siem-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 7 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Microsoft Sentinel

4.4 (7)

VS.

[4.5 (241)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172277/ManageEngine-Firewall-Analyzer/reviews/)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

$395

Other, One Time

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.0 (7)

Ease Of Use

4.5 (352)

Value For Money

4.4 (5)

Value For Money

4.6 (296)

Customer Service

4.8 (5)

Customer Service

4.7 (289)

## Microsoft Sentinel alternatives

Highest Rated

[5.0 (16)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10022288/Logmanager/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.7 (26)](https://www.capterra.com/p/175185/Log360/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.1 (8)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10009082/Log360-Cloud/#reviews)

Starting price

$300.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.8 (5)](https://www.capterra.com/p/175558/EventLog-Analyzer/#reviews)

Starting price

$595.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/219068/Azure-Sentinel/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Alerts/Notifications

4.3 (3)

33.33% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Real-Time Monitoring

5.0 (3)

66.67% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks

Third-Party Integrations

4.7 (3)

66.67% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Data Import/Export

4.0 (2)

100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Import and export data to and from software applications

Data Visualization

4.0 (2)

100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Graphical representation of data

Incident Management

4.5 (2)

0.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Manage and track all disruptions and incidents

Microsoft Sentinel 14 features

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Track and analyse user behavior within a system or network

Import and export data to and from software applications

Graphical representation of data

Manage and track all disruptions and incidents

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Active reporting of data and metrics

Analyze potential risks across the organization

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Information to prevent, understand and identify cyber threats

Features

4.4 (7)

4.4

Based on 7 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.4 (5)

### Starting price

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for pricing

Free trial  
not available

Value for money

4.4 (5)

4.4

Based on 5 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.8 (5)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.8 (5)

4.8

Based on 5 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.4

Based on 7 reviews

Filter by rating

5(3)

4(4)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

AU

Anonymous User

Cloud security engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "Microsoft Sentinel is the SIEM you are looking for"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

October 31, 2025

I have been working on sentinel for more than 2 years now, and i can say that sentinel is a top nocth siem tool and its features make it best. It integrates wioth defender xdr and provides enhanced threat visibility and vulnerability management.

Pros

Threat management and incident response is very great, like UEBA integrates with the alert and provides in-depth knowledge on the incident.

Cons

The log ingestion from onprem, where the org itself have some different setup and it has to be updated or changed because of logs ingestion to sentinel

Review source

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LD

Leonardo d.

Security Engineer

Information Technology and Services

### "Security Monitoring well done by Microsoft"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

May 15, 2023

I think Microsoft at least tries to make the user experience beginner friendly. Although they have to do some more work in order to make an end-user understand things. Some things within the portal as just not for beginners. I do recommend following Microsoft's SC-200 training or the Microsoft Sentinel Ninja crash course if you want to learn more about Sentinel. All-in-all, Microsoft Sentinel is a good addition to have with you are looking for a security operations center which interconnects with multiple solutions to gather logs from multiple solutions to one solution and make them easy to view.

Pros

Third-Party Integrations, Pre-configured Analytic Rules, Behavioral Analysis, Threat Hunting Rules, Workbooks (Visualization of Data),

Cons

Not easy to use out of the box, does need a little bit of practice and training to get some knowledge about Microsoft Sentinel, sometimes laggy and takes a bit of time loading log's results

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Sentinel

We mainly have Microsoft Products as we do get a little discount onto using Microsoft Sentinel

Review source

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Abhishek G.

Intern

Security and Investigations

### "Monitor your Network with Microsoft Senitnel"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

March 20, 2023

Pros

1\. The UI experience is great.2. One of the competitive SIEM platforms in the market.3. It Provides many outstanding features.

Cons

1\. It is now getting older i.e. other new software is getting more attention.2. Its pricing is a bit higher than other SIEM software.

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Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Denis D.

Consulente IT

Information Technology and Services

### "tra i migliori siem esistenti perfettamente integrato in azure"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 16, 2023

Pros

sicurezza completa, rilevamento delle minacce avanzate e riduzione dei costi eliminando la necessità di gestire l’infrastruttura siem e pagando solo per i dati gestiti

Cons

sebbene siano presenti template con le regole in base ai connettori che si vanno a configurare, in prima battuta può risultare complesso creare query con il linguaggo kql

Switched from

[IBM Security QRadar](https://www.capterra.com/p/179511/IBM-QRadar-SIEM/)

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Sr. Customer Operations Engineer

Computer & Network Security

### "Great cloud based SIEM Product"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 30, 2022

Overall, Azure Sentinel is a great product, it really made the sense of keeping the security logs.

Pros

I really liked how we can create the different use cases on the Azure Sentinel and based on the use cases we can take further actions to prevent the threats. I really liked how Azure Sentinel can interact with different products such as Endpoint Product (MS Defender), Carbon Black, Firewalls, all these logs can be kept and gathered at one place in Azure Sentinel, where we can apply different use cases to take further actions.

Cons

Cost might be a factor; however, it secures overall environment, which makes that factor go away. And we can live easy and secure life.

Switched from

[IBM Security QRadar](https://www.capterra.com/p/179511/IBM-QRadar-SIEM/)

Needed to switch to one platform for different solutions such as endpoint solution MS defender.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

LW

Llanoi W.

Audit Assistant

Higher Education

### "Microsoft Sentinel Review"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

March 7, 2022

Pros

This software provides a level of security which is in a class of its own. It speedily detects and responds to threats via artificial intelligence. It is notably easy to learn as it user interface is pretty straightforward.

Cons

In terms of cons, there aren’t many notable downsides to this platform.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Navjot T.

MOdule Lead

Information Services

### "Automated threat detection and response mechanism using AI techniques"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

October 22, 2021

Security related issues while deploying in the production environment can be checked in the initial period using the AI techniques incorporated in Azure Sentinel.

Pros

It has an awesome capability to collect the security related data at a centralized location. It does the routine check up of the security breaches and provides alert to the security team. Also, it performs the automated response to some of the common security issues.

Cons

This is very critical software for automated threat detection, prevention & response mechanism.

Review source

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