The same enterprise threat detection at a fraction of the cost. Better TCO, no per-GB billing, and a deployment that takes days, not months.
| Feature | Log360 Cloud | Microsoft Sentinel |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud-native SIEM hosted by ManageEngine, supporting cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. | Cloud-native SIEM delivered through Microsoft Azure and now integrated into the Microsoft Defender portal. |
| Threat detection | More than 2,000 built-in mitre-mapped rules, behavior-based anomalies, and threat intel matches. | Built-in analytics rules, customizable detections, Microsoft threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and content from the Sentinel Content Hub. |
| Detection engineering | Custom detection rules, rule tuning, object-level filtering, adaptive thresholds, and detection management capabilities. | Relies on Kusto Query Language (KQL) analytics-based rules which require extensive customization, scheduling, and near real-time detection options, as well as content from Microsoft and its partner ecosystem. |
| MITRE ATT&CK® coverage | Built-in MITRE ATT&CK mapping across detections with coverage dashboards and ATT&CK-aligned investigation capabilities. | MITRE ATT&CK mapping for analytics rules and a dedicated coverage experience for evaluating active and available detections. |
| UEBA | ML-based UEBA with behavioral baselines, peer grouping, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and insider-threat use cases. | ML-based UEBA builds behavioral profiles for users, hosts, IP addresses, applications, and other entities to identify anomalous activity. |
| Threat intelligence | Integrates threat intelligence feeds and standards such as STIX/TAXII with support for multiple commercial and community intelligence sources. | Integrates Microsoft threat intelligence and external intelligence sources, with native threat-intelligence capabilities within the Sentinel platform. |
| SOAR | Native SOAR with visual playbook creation, automated enrichment, investigation, containment, and remediation workflows. | Automation rules and Logic Apps-based playbooks provide extensive orchestration and integration capabilities. |
| AI-assisted investigation | AI-assisted investigation, contextual summaries, natural-language investigation support, and guided response capabilities. | AI capabilities across Microsoft Security, including AI-assisted investigation and the newer agentic security operations experience. |
| Compliance | More than 1,000 audit-ready reports covering major frameworks including the PCI DSS, the GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA. | Compliance monitoring and reporting through Sentinel and the wider Microsoft security and compliance ecosystem, with content and integrations available through Content Hub. |
| Log management | Searchable hot storage plus separate archival storage for long-term retention and compliance requirements. | Analytics and data lake tiers provide options for searchable security data and lower-cost long-term retention. |
| Log sources and integrations | More than 750 supported log sources spanning endpoints, network devices, cloud services, applications, identity platforms, and ManageEngine products. | Extensive Microsoft-native connectors plus third-party connectors, solutions, APIs, and partner integrations. |
| Microsoft ecosystem | Integrates with Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, Entra-related telemetry, and other Microsoft technologies. | Deepest integration with Microsoft Defender, Entra, Azure, Microsoft 365, and the wider Microsoft security ecosystem. |
| MSSP support | Dedicated multi-tenant MSSP edition for managed security service providers. | Supports multi-workspace and multi-tenant scenarios through Microsoft security and Azure capabilities, with architecture suited to large distributed environments. |
| Pricing | Component-based infrastructure licensing based on monitored assets, with separate search and archival storage options. | Primarily usage-based, with pricing based on data ingestion tiers, commitment tiers, retention, data lake usage, and other Azure services. |
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Log360 Cloud may be easier to budget for organizations that prefer licensing based on monitored infrastructure rather than primarily on telemetry volume. This solution provides a large amount of historical log retention, and enables searchable and archival storage separated by use case. It can also suit teams looking to consolidate SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, compliance, and related security capabilities within a single platform.
Microsoft Sentinel may be attractive for organizations with substantial Azure commitments, Microsoft Defender and other Microsoft security products at the core of their security stack, or a preference for consumption-based pricing that scales with telemetry. However, organizations need to account for data ingestion, retention, queries, and related Azure services when evaluating the overall cost. The more useful comparison, therefore, is not simply the price per GB, but the total cost of collecting, storing, analyzing, investigating, and responding to the security data your SOC needs.
With Microsoft Sentinel, your costs are tied to the amount of security data you ingest and analyze. As you bring more log sources online or retain more data, ingestion, retention, and data-lake usage can add to your overall Azure spend. Commitment tiers can reduce the effective per-GB rate, but they still require you to forecast your data volume and adjust your commitment as usage changes.
Log360 Cloud takes a different approach. Its infrastructure-based licensing lets you license the assets you actually monitor, log sources, endpoints, cloud accounts, domain controllers, and file servers, rather than paying based on every GB ingested. This gives security teams a more predictable way to budget as their monitored environment expands.
Microsoft Sentinel is particularly strong when Microsoft security technologies are already at the center of your environment. Defender, Entra, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Sentinel can work together as a tightly integrated security ecosystem.
Log360 Cloud takes a more vendor-agnostic approach. It is designed to bring telemetry from Windows and Linux systems, network devices, endpoints, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, identity systems, security products, and other infrastructure into one SIEM. This can be useful for organizations whose security environment extends well beyond Microsoft technologies.
Log360 Cloud supports more than 750 log sources and provides integrations across cloud platforms, applications, endpoints, network devices, identity platforms, and the ManageEngine ecosystem.
Build and customize detection rules through a visual interface or advanced query grammar, apply exclusions at the user, group, or OU level, and use tuning recommendations to reduce unnecessary alerts without writing KQL or scripting.
Combine correlation, anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, and threat intelligence to identify both known attack patterns and deviations from normal activity.
Build response workflows through a drag-and-drop interface without requiring Splunk's Search Processing Language or Microsft's Kusto Query Language.
Extend playbooks with Python or Deluge functions for custom enrichment, data processing, ticket creation, endpoint actions, and organization-specific response logic.
Centralize your credentials once and use them everywhere. Connect to CrowdStrike, Okta, Bitdefender, and more via API Key, OAuth, or Basic Auth. Then reuse those connections seamlessly across playbooks, widgets, and custom functions without reauthenticating.
Build baselines around normal user and entity activity and identify deviations that may warrant investigation.
Compare user behavior against relevant peer groups to identify unusual activity that may not trigger traditional rule-based detections.
Use anomaly and behavioral signals to help prioritize users and entities that present a higher level of security risk.
Maintain compliance continuously with dedicated dashboards, long-term log retention, scheduled reporting, and real-time violation monitoring.
Scale compliance monitoring across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures while maintaining centralized reporting and long-term audit visibility.
Choosing the right security solution goes beyond comparing features. Real-world experiences provide valuable insight into how organizations approach their security requirements and technology decisions.
We gained complete visibility into our server and security logs. The solution’s threat detection, event monitoring, and log analysis features have significantly improved how the organization tracks and responds to security events.
— Dhanaraj K, Chief Information Security Officer, Vibrant Screen
Receive SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR in a single cloud solution built to eliminate complexity, accelerate response times, and secure your enterprise without hidden costs.
Log360 Cloud uses a predictable, subscription-based pricing model based on the number of devices or log volume. Microsoft Sentinel charges based on data ingestion (per GB), leading to unpredictable and rapidly escalating costs as your environment grows.
Log360 Cloud supports a broad range of environments and log sources, including Windows and Linux/Unix systems, network devices, cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, SaaS applications, endpoints, identity platforms, and security solutions. This enables organizations to centralize security telemetry across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments within a single SIEM platform.
Log360 Cloud comes with preconfigured, out-of-the-box threat detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, requiring minimal tuning. Sentinel's detection relies heavily on custom KQL-based detection rules and community workbooks that require expertise to implement and maintain.
Yes. Log360 Cloud integrates with Microsoft 365 and Azure AD to ingest and analyze logs from those sources, providing comparable, and often more actionable, security visibility without requiring a full Azure-native stack.
Yes. Log360 Cloud includes built-in machine learning-based UEBA that establishes behavioral baselines for users and entities, detects anomalous activity, assigns risk scores, and supports peer-based analysis. UEBA insights can be correlated with other security events to help identify compromised accounts, insider threats, and other suspicious behavior.
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