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Aruba IntroSpect vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Aruba IntroSpect
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
23rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (15th)
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (11th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (8th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of Aruba IntroSpect is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 7.4%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar7.4%
Aruba IntroSpect1.7%
Other90.9%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
 

Featured Reviews

Marko Pirc - PeerSpot reviewer
IP Network Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Key features are roaming, application control and the firewall
We are partners of Aruba as well as sellers and customers. My job in the company is IP network engineer.  The roaming is a feature that works very well. In addition, the application control and firewall features are very good. These are all important features and make the product a valuable one.…
HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Have managed daily asset and alert monitoring effectively but have encountered limitations with manual processes and interface usability
It's still very manual and doesn't work on its own. It's still in an early stage and not on par where we can consider it a really successful detection system. The accuracy is not there. The UI could be better when compared to Sentinels where we can use flags and tagging. It could be much more user-friendly. IBM Security QRadar has all features and is fully competitive with other SIEM tools, but when it comes to user-friendliness, a new user takes time to get used to it. More intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and more helpful documentation would be beneficial. The query searching and data fetching could be faster. In large to very large organizations with around 5,000 or 6,000 assets or beyond, even with proper configurations and RAM and hardware backing up, the query is fairly slow.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I haven't heard of any issues with stability."
"The roaming is a feature that works very well, and the application control and firewall features are very good, making the product a valuable one."
"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring, and if there is any abnormal behavior on the machine, the administrator will be alerted."
"Roaming feature, application control and firewall features."
"This solution has allowed us to correlate logs from multiple sources."
"For small and medium enterprises, QRadar is the best solution, due to its price and performance."
"The threat protection network is the most valuable feature because when you get an offense, you can actually trace it back to where it originated from, how it originated, and why."
"The scalability is good."
"IBM Security QRadar has impacted my organization positively by helping me with many things, including catching attacks and moving quickly to reduce damage or risk from attacks."
"There are other third-party plugins that we can use."
"This is a good tool to have because it gives you the ability to track what is currently happening in your environment."
"I think it has improved our organization by the speed at which I can run queries compared to other software that I've used in the past."
 

Cons

"Technical support is unfortunately a little slow."
"The dashboard could be simplified. You don't have a clear cut view and you have to dive deep into the options to gain some understanding."
"The packet analyzer needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard, where you can get the information with a simple click."
"I would like to see a better GUI."
"There is room for improvement in IBM QRadar in integrating features for SOC maturity and security levels directly into QRadar."
"It is very expensive; very expensive."
"There are many types of AI, and this AI is very limited in SQL and features. There may be potential for improvement."
"I'd like to see improved support from the vendor."
"We had several serious issues with this product, which made it impossible to use for a customer."
"SOAR is what is expected the most from QRadar. They have something called SOAR Resilient, and it would be great if that gets induced in SIEM. IBM QRadar (as well as McAfee ESM) should have analytics platform integration. Currently, SIEMs don't have full-fledged integration with analytics where we are able to dump our data in SIEM, and the same data can be called from different analytics applications. We should be able to bring this data to a platform like Hadoop for big data and run the analytics there. Currently, people are seeing the past data and taking some actions in the present, but when it comes to analytics, there should be futuristic data where you can predict something out of your present and past data. Apart from that, I would like to see a full-fledged ITSM tool in QRadar. It sometimes has some technical issues that need to be checked. It requires a dedicated QRadar engineer to completely manage it. It has different module sets, such as event collector and event processor, and some technical glitches come in between. It takes the log but doesn't exactly process it in the way we want."
"The dashboard is pathetic and it takes a long time to perform a search."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is based on the number of users. The evaluation license is free, you can download it from the website and try it out first."
"We use QRadar as a managed service and we pay licensing fees to the partner."
"IBM has subscriptions plans that run for one year."
"The pricing is good."
"The maintenance costs are high."
"Pricing (based on EPS) will be more accurate."
"QRadar is quite expensive. It wouldn't be worth it for a small business..."
"It is costlier as compared to the other alternatives available in the market."
"They can give us some scalability and flexibility on pricing. If its pricing can be reduced, it would help a lot of customers in bringing in a new SIEM environment and grow business in the market. If I start a license today and take around 10,000 EPS, and after a month, there is an increase in the number of clients on my platform, I can increase the number of licenses. I can add 5,000 EPS on a yearly basis."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aruba IntroSpect?
Aruba Introspect has two licenses - advanced and standard. While we found the price of the advanced license to be a bit high, the standard license is reasonably priced and costs less than half the ...
What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?
It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?
I am overall satisfied with the licensing cost for IBM Security QRadar.
 

Also Known As

IntroSpect
IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Sage Hotel, Centara Hotels and Resorts, Asda, The Dolder Grand,
Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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