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Gurucul Next Gen SIEM vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.9
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM increased efficiency in threat detection, reduced costs, automated workflows, and improved staff productivity and response times.
Sentiment score
7.3
Microsoft Sentinel enhances ROI with improved security, cost savings, automation, and faster threat detection, benefiting organizations efficiently.
If a customer is already using Microsoft’s ecosystem, the ROI can be positive due to seamless integration.
We attribute our growth to Sentinel.
From a risk perspective, it's about mitigating risk, and as mentioned earlier, we haven't missed many things since we've had the offering in market—only a couple of minor incidents.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM offers prompt, knowledgeable, and efficient customer service, resulting in high client satisfaction with effective technical support.
Sentiment score
6.7
Microsoft Sentinel support is responsive and helpful, though basic support can be slow, with some preferring community resources.
Their solutions' integration simplifies resolving issues compared to those caused by third-party products.
Working with a Sentinel engineer helped us tune settings effectively.
When my team needs to escalate issues to Microsoft, especially for Microsoft Sentinel, the response is fast through their French entity.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is highly scalable, handling large data volumes efficiently, integrating with diverse environments seamlessly.
Sentiment score
8.0
Microsoft Sentinel offers scalable, adaptable security solutions using Azure, ideal for various organizations with its flexible and updated features.
Office 365 and Exchange are running on it, covering about 35,000 users efficiently.
As our organization uses Microsoft Azure and Defender, everything grows together, and we can integrate various features seamlessly.
Being a SaaS solution, the scalability of Microsoft Sentinel is robust.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.4
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is stable, reliable, handles large data efficiently, and integrates seamlessly without disrupting operations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Sentinel is highly reliable, with 99.9%+ availability and occasional minor issues, maintaining stability across diverse environments.
So far, we have not experienced any issues, and it has been stable from the beginning.
In the past two years, our team hasn't encountered any issues with the stability of Microsoft Sentinel from an operations perspective.
I need to be aware of deprecated connectors as they may disconnect, but the data continues to be sent with a need for quick adaptation.
 

Room For Improvement

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM faces deployment complexity, performance issues with large data, and needs better support, reporting, and integration.
Microsoft Sentinel users seek better integration, user-friendliness, documentation, AI capabilities, and customizable features with improved performance and pricing.
We have some tools, such as our off-site Meraki firewalls, that have not fully integrated with Sentinel.
Currently, we are happy to have a way in the middle with not so much cost, but it would be nice to have the ability to enhance the automation of workflows based on learned incidents.
There are complexities in calculating the right pricing tier for different customers, which makes it difficult for me as a consultant during upfront pricing.
 

Setup Cost

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM offers scalable subscription pricing with advanced threat detection, machine learning, and extensive integration for enterprises.
Microsoft Sentinel's usage-based pricing offers strong value with extensive integration, but cost unpredictability concerns some users.
Microsoft Sentinel offers more capabilities than Bastion, with a more intuitive experience.
Setting up the right cost model for customers is intricate, requiring careful consideration of various components and licensing tiers.
The ingestion costs for the data analytics is usually the highest cost.
 

Valuable Features

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM excels in threat detection, scalability, integration, customizable reports, and adapting to diverse IT environments.
Microsoft Sentinel provides AI-driven automation, robust threat detection, scalability, and seamless integration for comprehensive security operations within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Microsoft Sentinel's ability to correlate data from multiple sources and its detection capabilities are essential.
Microsoft Sentinel has improved cost efficiency, which is one of the key areas we're able to win business against the ability to have threat intelligence.
Microsoft Sentinel's ability to correlate data from multiple sources enhances our threat detection capabilities beyond what is a simple data lake solution by filtering out the noise and consolidating the signal down to a meaningful level that is easier to investigate and see.
 

Categories and Ranking

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
39th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Sentinel
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (4th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 7.1%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Ansar Monideen - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides almost all the SIEM features offered by the leaders at a low cost
Gurucul's data enrichment could be improved. As a security professional, I want to consolidate all these log sources and data to the user, entity, or resource. More advancements are required, especially in enriching security data or attack response. I would like to see more improvements there. The documentation could also be better. Every user and resource has a timeline that lists all the events so we can analyze that particular system and what is happening. We would like to have an option where we can only list the confirmed security threat-related activities for a particular user rather than all activities. This way, we can see what kind of risk is reported for this user and be able to monitor them better.
Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Threat detection and response capabilities enhance investigation processes
My security team has been using Microsoft Sentinel for around two years. We also have Bastion and SolarWinds as part of our monitoring tools. We use a three-way tool, alongside Microsoft Sentinel, in our environment The most valuable features for us include threat collection, threat detection,…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
11%
Performing Arts
9%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
The customization of reporting rules, reporting configuration, and alerting configuration are good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
The pricing is exceptionally good. I have personally implemented several SIEM solutions that are significantly more expensive. I won't name the companies, but one particularly well-known and expens...
What needs improvement with Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
Gurucul's data enrichment could be improved. As a security professional, I want to consolidate all these log sources and data to the user, entity, or resource. More advancements are required, espec...
Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?
Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and its Threat Hunting functionality with AI available as templates or customized ...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?
We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...
 

Also Known As

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Azure Sentinel
 

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Sample Customers

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Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.
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