Gurucul UEBA vs Rapid7 InsightIDR comparison

Gurucul and Rapid7 are both solutions in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category. Gurucul is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while Rapid7 is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Gurucul holds a 4.0% mindshare in UBA, compared to Rapid7’s 10.0% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Gurucul users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

Gurucul UEBA

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75% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Gurucul UEBA and Rapid7 InsightIDR are competing in the security analytics solutions category. Rapid7 InsightIDR seems to have the upper hand in integration and threat intelligence, making it suitable for organizations prioritizing comprehensive security coverage.

Features: Gurucul UEBA is recognized for its advanced machine learning-powered analytics, precise identification of insider threats and anomalies, and forecasting capabilities. Rapid7 InsightIDR provides integrated threat intelligence, asset identification, and user behavior analytics for a holistic threat view. Its ease of integration with existing systems is a notable advantage, offering adaptability to diverse IT environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Rapid7 InsightIDR offers a straightforward deployment process with comprehensive support, reducing operationalization time and effort. Gurucul UEBA, while robust, may require more resources and expertise during setup. Rapid7's responsive customer support ensures quick resolution of deployment challenges.

Pricing and ROI: Gurucul UEBA offers a more competitive setup cost structure, appealing to budget-conscious organizations, and provides gradual ROI through its focused features. Rapid7 InsightIDR, despite a higher initial investment, delivers substantial ROI through its extensive threat detection capabilities and efficiencies from seamless integration, providing value that justifies its premium pricing.

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Categories and Ranking

Gurucul UEBA

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

6th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (14th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (26th), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of Gurucul UEBA is 4.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 10.0%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

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Ravi Shekharan

Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Helped reduce our operational costs and increase our efficiency, but it can be more user-friendly

Regarding the prioritization of threats, Gurucul UEBA needs to enhance its alert severity assignment process within the system. This is one area where Gurucul UEBA could improve. Additionally, it would be beneficial if the tool itself could provide or assign user-based or asset-based CI ratings to allow for a more accurate assessment of alert severity. In our environment, we forward these logs, events, and alerts to SIM, where the CI rating is already present. Therefore, if we need to closely investigate a UEBA case directly, it becomes problematic. Gurucul UEBA should proactively incorporate asset-based or user-based CI severity into its design. Gurucul UEBA needs to be more user-friendly. I would like Gurucul UEBA to be able to integrate with legacy-based identity systems and systems that are performing network-based access control. This would require additional integration and playbook models.

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Asim Naeem

Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd

Providing comprehensive insight into alerts while working towards AI enhancement

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product. Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Gurucul is the ability to customize and it is on the Hadoop platform that has a lot of flexibility."

"The reporting feature was the key differentiator. I also liked the ability to create dynamic rules in the environment."

"If you are genuinely looking for a UEBA solution, you should choose Gurucul confidently if your need is strictly UEBA."

"I appreciate the comprehensive categorization of devices based on their intended use, such as those for DNS."

"InsightIDR has allowed us to find potential security issues that we did not know existed, and get remediation quickly."

"The solution is very scalable in terms of the licensing model."

"Dashboards, including the main screen, provide much-needed information at a glance, without hours of coding and sifting through logs to find it. In case of an actual security incident, I have faith that insightIDR has retained all logs in a secure manner that prevents log tampering as well."

"InsightIDR’s ability to process millions of transactions per day, and to notify me of the most critical ones, is priceless. InsightIDR has the alerts tuned, and has the ability to quickly drill down to determine the threat level."

"Simple configuration and automatically syncs to the cloud platform."

"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."

"Another very important part of insightIDR is the ability to collect data from endpoint devices via agent software. With a large remote workforce, this allows visibility into the endpoints that are connected to the internet, but not to the corporate network."

"The ability to ingest Office 365 log files, then process them into events and display them on a map."

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Cons

"Regarding the prioritization of threats, Gurucul UEBA needs to enhance its alert severity assignment process within the system."

"Technical support is good but can improve. I would rate it six to seven out of ten. The main issue is response time, which can take three to four hours even for simple queries."

"Gurucul can improve on the online documentation. They should educate the end users more to allow them to do everything themselves."

"It could be more stable."

"I would like the ability to adjust the threshold of certain existing alerts. Currently the only option is to change the notifications or create my own alert."

"The reporting is the weakest aspect. There needs to be multi-level grouping for events (for example, group by user and destination). Right now, we can do a group by user and a separate table or group by destination. But I'd be more interested in where a person was logging into instead of who was logging in or where he was logging in."

"The ability to tune the collector for custom logs would greatly help."

"The dashboard is an area that could be simplified."

"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."

"Lacks a mobile application."

"One thing that springs to mind is easier API integration with ITSMs. We are evaluating a new ITSM and I would like to have InsightIDR create a ticket when an attack is identified, and the ticket would be closed in InsightIDR when the ITSM resolution is completed. This would take out the "single point of failure" we currently have, if the email recipient is somehow absent, in recording the risk appetite for the incident and the actions taken to mitigate or not."

"There is a future in AI with Rapid7, however, it is not fully operated. There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is fair. In fact, I believe it was on the cheaper side when compared to the competition."

"The price of Gurucul is competitive."

"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing of the solution depends on the user. But there is a yearly licensing cost."

"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"

"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

"Licensing is straightforward. If, for some reason, you don’t meet the minimum licensing requirements, there is a third-party managed service that can help."

"Accurately predict your licensing counts as this is a subscription based product."

"I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, but none that meet so many of our needs whilst maintaining stability and usability."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Gurucul?

I appreciate the comprehensive categorization of devices based on their intended use, such as those for DNS.

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What needs improvement with Gurucul?

For improvement, I have requested three enhancement tickets, which are already lodged with the Gurucul support team. The first request is to add a visualization option in reports for charts or grap...

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What is your primary use case for Gurucul?

Regarding the use cases, I have created many use cases in Gurucul UEBA. It's easy to create use cases based on behaviors.

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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...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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Overview

Threats are a moving target. Determined and persistent threat actors purposely stretch out their activity across weeks or even months, especially when most SIEM and XDR solutions are incapable of piecing together events across time. Even worse, is that these solutions primarily use rule-based Machine Learning, which is essentially pattern matching. This makes them especially ineffective in detecting new attacks and/or variants, which are highly successful in breaching organizations. Discover how Gurucul UEBA security can help your enterprise.

Gurucul

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

Global semi-conductor company

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

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