Rapid7 InsightIDR vs Trellix ESM comparison

Rapid7 and Trellix are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Rapid7 is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.1, while Trellix is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.3. Rapid7 holds a 2.5% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Trellix’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Trellix users who would recommend it.

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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95% willing to recommend

Trellix ESM

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76% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Trellix ESM and Rapid7 InsightIDR are competitive SIEM solutions. Rapid7 InsightIDR's robust features make it the preferred choice, despite Trellix ESM excelling in support and pricing.

Features: Trellix ESM is known for advanced threat detection, customizable dashboards, and strong support. Rapid7 InsightIDR stands out with a user-friendly design, integration with multiple third-party tools, and more comprehensive SIEM capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Trellix ESM needs enhancements in scalability, reporting capabilities, and user interface. Rapid7 InsightIDR requires better alert fine-tuning, advanced analytics, and some improvements in performance under heavy loads.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Trellix ESM's deployment can be complex, requiring significant time and expertise, but it offers well-regarded customer service. Rapid7 InsightIDR is praised for straightforward deployment and efficient customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Trellix ESM has competitive pricing but some users find the ROI lacking. Rapid7 InsightIDR is more expensive yet users feel its comprehensive features justify the cost, resulting in better perceived ROI.

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Rapid7 InsightIDR vs. Trellix ESM

September 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (25th), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (16th)

Trellix ESM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

18th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.5%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trellix ESM is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Rapid7 InsightIDR	2.5%
Trellix ESM	1.1%
Other	96.4%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

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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Daniel Durian

Senior Information Security Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps to monitor and detect cyberattacks

The tool's effectiveness depends on how you define your log sources. To build visibility of incoming and outgoing traffic, you need logs from perimeter defense, firewalls, web application firewalls, and endpoint protection. With good traffic visibility, incident response time is really quick. Trellix ESM provides situation awareness. On the dashboard, I can see outbound and inbound communications to known threat hosts, IPS/IDS activity, and threat intelligence of the perimeter defense in the firewall. This information helps preempt attacks.

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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

"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."

"If you were on other solutions, you would notice that they use agents from third-party, from open-source, from a native OS, or from other tools. Here, however, it is an agent from Rapid7 itself. This adds to the solution's overall capabilities."

"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."

"User behavioral analytics allows us to pinpoint abnormal or suspicious behavior among millions of events every day."

"Rapid7's reporting is more robust than Tenable's."

"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 application belongs to a known ransomware group. The system rates the threat, offering a clear detection ratio, such as 97 out of 100. It not only identifies threats but also illustrates the associated behaviors, helping us understand the potential risk to a particular endpoint."

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

"It is a very stable solution."

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"McAfee as a whole is a good solution."

"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. Over the years I have always been using this solution and have become comfortable with it."

"The tool's effectiveness depends on how you define your log sources. To build visibility of incoming and outgoing traffic, you need logs from perimeter defense, firewalls, web application firewalls, and endpoint protection. With good traffic visibility, incident response time is really quick."

"This solution integrates easily and very well with other technologies."

"I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. The deployment is completed in two days."

"Compared to other solutions, the user interface is good."

"It enables us to detect malicious threats, issues, or vulnerabilities in our network."

"The most valuable feature is that if the scanning does find something, it quarantines it. Then you can decide what you are going to do with it."

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Cons

"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."

"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"I would like to see more development in InsightIDR towards building their SIEM solution and converting it to XDR."

"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."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is not intuitive to search for logs. It should be more user-friendly and improve the dashboards. We should be able to use ready-made templates instead of having to build one."

"The searching feature in Rapid7 InsightIDR needs to evolve"

"The main problem lies in the processes within the client's operating systems."

"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."

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"Cloud integration has room for improvement because they're not full-fledged to integrate with the cloud solutions that come. They use different integration platforms to bring in data, and that needs to be improved."

"There are some banking and transactional cases that are local, South America transactions. I would like to see them add features that can be used locally, to make those transactions more reliable."

"The user interface could be more user-friendly."

"Update to user interface from version 9 is cosmetic in some aspects, and after a few clicks you are back on the old interface."

"McAfee is no more providing security updates on this product, and the enhancements to this product seem to have stopped. Moreover, we don't get proper support, and we struggle to get its support. It would be good if they can add some AI engine and out of the box use cases because it is currently limited to the same scenario and the same setup. I have done a POC for Securonix, LogRhythm. These products are much more ahead as compared to McAfee ESM. They have included multiple modules in the same solution. Correlation is very easy. If McAfee ESM can improve, especially in such implementations, then I believe it would be much better."

"The support from McAfee ESM could improve. They could improve the speed."

"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"It seems McAfee does test its product before releasing. When we - not only us, other companies also - deploy McAfee, we face multiple issues from the customer side, after which, McAfee reacts and fixes the bugs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable."

"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."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR charges us based on the endpoints we connect to."

"It is more reasonably priced than other vendors."

"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"

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is a cheaply priced product. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is very cheap, I rate the product's price at seven or eight."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

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"We pay for our licensing fees on a yearly basis, and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"We renew our license annually."

"McAfee is the right choice for a low-budget solution."

"The cost is dependent on the customer's environment and requirements."

"The product is slightly expensive."

"It is an inexpensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"The cost is all included. The finance department handles the financial part, and we mostly don't get involved in it."

"Regarding pricing, Trellix ESM is not that expensive. It's less than half the cost of IBM QRadar."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Comms Service Provider

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about McAfee ESM?

The solution's technical support is great.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee ESM?

When discussing Trellix ESM pricing and licensing, if you consider some premium product, the pricing also has to be premium, however, enterprise customers who look for a premium product, alongside ...

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What needs improvement with McAfee ESM?

Areas of Trellix ESM that could be improved or enhanced include checking on the clients who are still on-prem, especially banks, as most are not moving everything to the cloud due to confidentialit...

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Also Known As

InsightIDR

McAfee ESM, NitroSecurity, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Overview

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

Make your organization more resilient and confident with Trellix Security Operations. Filter out the noise and cut complexity to deliver faster, more effective SecOps. Integrate your existing security tools and connect with over 650 Trellix solutions and third-party products.

Trellix

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

San Francisco Police Credit Union, Wªstenrot Gruppe, Volusion, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Government of New Brunswick, State of Colorado, Macquarie Telecom, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Cologne Bonn Airport

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