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Elastic Beats vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Elastic Beats
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Security QRadar
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (6th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (10th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (7th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1269834 - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T. Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
A great addition to our security monitoring system
We haven't to this point had to scale very large, we want to continue to evolve, but it's a slow process for us. From what I've used so far, and my reading on it, I don't think we're going to have any problems scaling to really whatever size we need.
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

"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of, and it's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to rectify a situation involving any anomalies expeditiously."
"It'll get you from point A to B."
"Tech support is excellent."
"The most valuable features would have to be the products' ability to customize vulnerability management settings."
"The best feature of IBM QRadar is visualization which shows you when there's a spike in the system, and this makes you realize that there's something wrong with the log."
"I would definitely recommend this solution; it is a good solution with good capabilities like integration with CMDB and CVSS score, a really nice dashboard, and it can help with threat intelligence and has artificial intelligence."
"The circumvention method and the patch method is perfected very well in the QRadar area."
"In addition to using this solution for our security operations center, we are using it for our other customers."
 

Cons

"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"The dashboard and reports are not user-friendly or efficient so are of little help with threat hunting activity."
"The only downfall of this product would be its price."
"We sometimes experience downtime, but it depends on the version. There is some variability."
"The advanced planning management (APM) features should be included."
"The Indian tech support is not helpful."
"They should introduce some automation into the product."
"They should provide more manual examples online so that I can learn it myself."
"It would probably be better to get more access to the APIs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It wasn't cheap, but it was cost-effective compared to many of the other solutions."
"IBM's Qradar is not for small companie. Unfortunately, it would be 'overkill' to place it plainly. The pricing would be too much."
"IBM has subscriptions plans that run for one year."
"There are different types of subscriptions available. We were on an annual subscription, but our customers typically choose the two years subscription option."
"IBM Security QRadar is a very expensive tool."
"The pricing needs to be such that they are more competitive with other vendors."
"You have a one-time payment, and you also can purchase it for one year as a subscription. We have it on-premise, and we have a permanent license for it. We have to pay for the support on a yearly basis. If you compare its cost with Sentinel for one year, QRadar would seem more expensive, but if you compare its cost over five or ten years, Azure Sentinel will be more expensive than QRadar. If you compare its cost with Sentinel for one year, QRadar would seem more expensive, but if you compare its cost over five or 10 years, Azure Sentinel can be more expensive than QRadar."
"An X-Force feed is free with QRadar."
"QRadar's price is reasonable compared to LogRhythm."
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Jun 28, 2015
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Financial Services Firm
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Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

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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?
Pricing and the license of EPS were managed by the governance team. I was not responsible for managing those. I was supposed to put up the requirement of the license needed to integrate that amount...
 

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

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