Microsoft Sentinel vs Swimlane comparison

Microsoft and Swimlane are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Swimlane is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.6. Microsoft holds a 9.8% mindshare in SOAR, compared to Swimlane’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Swimlane users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Swimlane and Microsoft Sentinel compete in security orchestration and response. Microsoft Sentinel offers a superior feature set, while Swimlane provides better cost-effectiveness for budget-conscious organizations.

Features: Swimlane emphasizes automation capabilities, flexibility in customizing workflows, and an easy-to-use interface. Microsoft Sentinel is equipped with advanced analytics, seamless integration with Microsoft tools, and comprehensive threat detection capabilities, positioning it well for environments utilizing Microsoft services.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Swimlane's deployment is straightforward due to its adaptable architecture and minimal integration effort. Swimlane’s dedicated support offers personalized assistance. Microsoft Sentinel uses cloud-native deployment with advantages in Microsoft's ecosystem but requires alignment with Azure services. Sentinel depends on Microsoft's extensive global support network, which may be less personalized.

Pricing and ROI: Swimlane's lower upfront setup costs and transparent pricing make it attractive for budget management. Microsoft Sentinel may involve higher initial investment due to Azure dependencies but offers higher ROI through integrated features, leveraging Microsoft environments for enhanced threat management.

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Torq

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of Torq is 3.8%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 9.8%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Swimlane is 2.8%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Sentinel	9.8%
Torq	3.8%
Swimlane	2.8%
Other	83.6%

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Featured Reviews

AdityaDesai

Solutions Architect at Swimlane

Automation has streamlined multi-tenant SOC workflows and improves alert handling efficiency

Although the reporting within Torq is not that great, we did ask for many features regarding reporting in Torq, but due to some platform constraints, they could not make the whole dataset available for us to be used in reporting. Except for that, we used some basic reporting. When I used Torq, it was indeed in the early stages of AI capabilities. Only a few customers were allowed to use it, and we were among them. It functioned well as long as we summarized the data properly. If you input garbage, you would get garbage out. Thus, we had to do significant fine-tuning regarding what data context we provided to the AI orchestrator to get meaningful results. In terms of Torq's unified platform approach to AI SOC automation and case management compared to managing multiple point solutions across my security stack, I find it case-centric. The unified view in case management is good since it provides clarity, although there are limitations regarding how many items in case management can be modified at once. Bulk operations are very limited, potentially due to their back-end database or data retrieval processes that can be improved. Regarding improvements for Torq, when we were onboarded, there were aspects we were uncertain about, such as the number of cases that could be generated, what data we could bring in, how many clients we could onboard, and similar concerns. Initially, we also lacked clarity about the number of playbooks or workflows we could build. Different triggers like system triggers, case-based triggers, and others can be employed without restrictions, but when it comes to on-demand and scheduled jobs, there is a limitation based on the subscription and pricing tier that notably caps the number of workflows we can create. No bulk editing across cases was one issue, along with limited filtering related to single grouping constraints. Additionally, the out-of-the-box case templates provided require substantial modifications before they become usable. There is also a feature in the cases for notes that cannot be searched. They are only visible through the UI, which is another area for improvement. The workflow and execution-based charges seem misleading as this was not discussed initially. I am not sure if new customers are made aware of this. It seems that workflows revolving around cases hinder functionality outside of case management, as we have many use cases needing on-demand triggers and schedules for functions like reporting or polling devices. Creating additional workflows to achieve basic functionalities raises costs significantly, which disadvantages customers. While they facilitate optimization and scaling, the support received tends to be very basic. Improvements can be made in that area as well.

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Kallamuddin Ansari

Cyber Security Consultant at HR Software Solution

Centralized monitoring has improved threat response but cost control still needs refinement

Based on real operations used in our corporate IT environment, the key features include log correlation and incident view. Microsoft Sentinel's biggest strength is how it correlates multiple related alerts into a single incident. This significantly reduces alert noise and helps the SOC focus on real threats instead of isolated events. Another valuable feature is KQL-based threat hunting with Kusto Query Language. The flexibility of this language allows us to build custom hunting queries based on our environment's behavior. This is extremely useful for detecting low and slow threats or hidden threats that default rules may miss. Cloud-native scalability and stability is another important feature. Being cloud-native, Microsoft Sentinel scales well for medium to large corporate environments without infrastructure management. Stability has been solid in day-to-day production. SOAR automation using playbooks is a feature we highly recommend. Microsoft Sentinel's SOAR functionality helps automate repetitive SOC tasks like alert enrichment and notification. This saves analyst time and improves response consistency.

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reviewer1248516

Senior Manager, Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has reduced alert triage time but requires skilled developers for maintenance

One of the disadvantages of Swimlane is that to manage the platform, we need hardcore developers. We have recently seen new products such as Tines and Blink Ops coming into the market, where a person with a good knowledge of APIs and JSON format can manage the platform and create playbooks. Even a security analyst can create some playbooks on those platforms. However, on Swimlane, it's difficult for security analysts since they must mandatorily know Python to create the playbooks. In terms of pricing, Swimlane is on the slightly expensive side. Swimlane is scalable in general, but there are some limitations. It involves maintenance overhead because you need a complete engineer who knows the product in and out to scale it for the on-prem environment, while in a SaaS model, it works without many problems. Installation can be quite complex, especially when we have to use Kubernetes, and if we need to create load balancing. In those situations, it requires a good engineer to deploy the platform. In relation to bugs, sometimes the enrichment playbook we have does not enrich the alert, resulting in missing details, so in those scenarios, the automation team has to manually run the playbook again. Improvements could be made in terms of quality, particularly.

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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

"Torq has exceeded expectations by delivering workflows in a timely and lower effort manner than XSOAR, and it meets all my needs while saving a ton of time and targeting $600,000 saved this year, which is a substantial amount of money."

"Any request that comes in, regardless of how complex it is, I can accomplish it with Torq."

"Almost four or five hours of work is now completed in four or five minutes."

"If I review about 100 vendors that I might work with, Torq is definitely in the top five that gave me personally investment back, just because every bit of effort I put into Torq eventually became a workflow that gave it back to me."

"Under one SOC tool in Torq, analysts get to know everything within the context of an alert or incident they are working on, and this ability to view the whole picture within Torq is one of the major breakthroughs and best offerings of Torq."

"Using that one piece of AI, we auto-closed 511 cases in quarter four alone."

"What I liked the most about Torq is the actual workflow builder, which is really great because they offer a lot of features and convenience features that are useful for any automation engineer."

"Torq's unified platform approach to AI, SOAR, automation, and case management is superior compared to my experience managing multiple point solutions."

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"The most valuable features in my experience are the UEBA, LDAP, the threat scheduler, and integration with third-party straight perform like the MISP."

"For us, at least, the price point is justified, and we have not had any issues."

"Microsoft Sentinel has greatly increased our security."

"The Identity Behavior tab furnishes us with the entire history linked to each IP or domain that has either accessed or attempted to access our system."

"The connectivity and analytics are great."

"Sentinel is a SIEM and SOAR tool, so its automation is the best feature; we can reduce human interaction, freeing up our human resources."

"It is quite efficient. It helps our clients in identifying their security issues and respond quickly. Our clients want to automate incident response and all those things."

"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is the support."

"It provides us with a single portal for our logs from different solutions."

"Swimlane has positively impacted my organization by saving a lot of time, reducing all the manual work that the SOC used to do, and improving response times."

"Swimlane has positively impacted my organization by helping us quickly work on alerts and document them, leading to improved response times and efficiency since we are able to work very easily using the amazing UI and the tool."

"Swimlane is a very effective way to represent workflows involving multiple users."

"Swimlane saves us 80 to 90 percent of our time by quickly helping us design the journey and efficiently passing information to various components."

"The technical support from Swimlane is very good."

"The biggest advantage of Swimlane for us is that it saves time, which in turn helps us in cost-saving."

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Cons

"The workflow and execution-based charges seem misleading as this was not discussed initially, and creating additional workflows to achieve basic functionalities raises costs significantly, which disadvantages customers."

"We have MCP that we are working with our cloud security platform, and we wanted to connect this MCP to the case management."

"The initial deployment of Torq was not easy."

"Torq does extensive marketing saying that SOAR is dead and markets itself as an all-in-one solution, but this is not actually true."

"Even now, we have workflows that are in production that use AI steps and I get different results, making it unusable to some degree."

"Regarding the pricing of Torq, I would say it is expensive."

"Regarding stability, I have noticed some lagging, crashing, and downtime, which is one of my largest gripes."

"Additionally, the documentation for Torq is not very clear. Most of the information is presented in videos, which are not ideal for reading; there are mostly paragraphs and other text-based content."

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"They need to work with other security vendors. For example, we replaced our email gateway with Symantec, but we couldn't collect these logs with Azure Sentinel. Instead of collecting these logs with Azure Sentinel, we are collecting them on Qradar. We couldn't do it with Sentinel, which is a problem for us."

"The integration challenges arise from both sides; Google tends to be noisy, and we find only ten analytic rules out of the box, necessitating the use of Defender for Cloud for alerts, which indicates a need for better documentation during deployment."

"Microsoft Sentinel should continue adding support for several other security brands because sometimes you have a firewall from a different brand and if you cannot correlate or integrate that seamlessly, it creates multiple points of checking information, which diminishes efficiency."

"Microsoft should improve Sentinel, considering that from the legacy systems, it cannot collect logs."

"Its implementation could be simpler. It is not really simple or straightforward. It is in the middle. Sometimes, connectors are a little bit complex."

"There is a wider thing called Jupyter Notebooks, which is around the automation side of things. It would be good if there are playbooks that you can utilize without having to have the developer experience to do it in-house. Microsoft could provide more playbooks or more Jupyter Notebooks around MITRE ATT&CK Framework."

"Microsoft Defender has a built-in threat expert option that enables you to contact an expert. That feature isn't available in Sentinel because it's a huge product that integrates all the technologies. I would like Microsoft to add the threat expert option so we can contact them. There are a few other features, like threat assessment that the PG team is working on. I expect them to release this feature in the next quarter."

"If Sentinel had a graphical user interface, it would be easier to use. I would also like it to be more customizable."

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"There is a need for enhanced version control in Swimlane. Currently, our version does not support it, making it tough to move changes between environments during significant updates."

"The initial setup and deployment are complex."

"Swimlane can be improved by being faster and quicker so it is easier for us and does not hang sometimes."

"I would prefer to have more colors added to represent different risks or notations, which can be used for the prioritization of risks and the significance of information."

"The stability of the solution has room for improvement."

"I would like to see improvements in the minor bugs that occur with each update, as some features might have issues."

"Swimlane is not scalable because it is not exposed. Currently, it's a manual component that requires configuration through coding."

"We faced a lot of issues with the product’s stability."

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"It is kind of like a sliding scale. There are different tiers of pricing that go from $100 per day up to $3,500 per day. So, it just kind of depends on how much data is being stored. There can be additional costs to the standard license other than the additional data. It just kind of depends on what other services you're spinning up in Azure, or if you're using something like Azure log analytics."

"Cost-wise, Sentinel is based on the volume of information being ingested, so it can be quite pricey. The ability to use strategies to control what data is being ingested is important."

"The pricing is fair... With a traditional SIEM, you pay a lump sum for licenses. But with Sentinel, it's pay-as-you-go according to the amount of data you inject."

"Microsoft Sentinel is expensive."

"Good monthly operational cost model for the detection and response outcomes delivered, M365 logs don't count toward the limits which is a good benefit."

"It is certainly the most expensive solution. The cost is very high. We need to do an assessment using the one-month trial so that we can study the cost side. Before implementing it, we must do a careful calculation."

"Microsoft Sentinel's pricing is relatively expensive and extremely confusing."

"The pricing isn't very high. It depends on the number of logs you have. If you're expecting to ingest 50 to 60G in a day, but you're only ingesting 20 to 25G per day at first and you have a good team to analyze the logs, then you can segregate the ingestion at under 15G."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	46

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

I do not dislike anything about Torq because it has satisfied all of our use cases and requirements. We contacted sup...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

Initially, we were using Slack for small automations, such as creating pipelines or shutting down servers. For exampl...

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

I have been working for five years with experience in the IT field. Torq is very good. It manages everything. I would...

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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 an...

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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 ingest...

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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...

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What needs improvement with Swimlane?

Customizing workflows or scripts in Swimlane was a bit challenging, perhaps too challenging because of how the code b...

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What is your primary use case for Swimlane?

My main use case for Swimlane is security automation workflows, automating most of the daily SOC workflows, especiall...

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What advice do you have for others considering Swimlane?

My advice for others considering using Swimlane is to ensure it is the right fit for you and to have someone capable ...

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Overview

Torq is the enterprise AI SOC solution that effectively combines adaptive insights and automation to handle critical threats efficiently. It manages threat lifecycles, swiftly moving from triage to response, ensuring effective risk management.

Torq is designed to streamline security operations by aggregating telemetry across your security stack. It investigates significant risks and manages threats from triage to containment and remediation. This AI-driven tool enhances the capabilities of your SecOps team, allowing them to achieve more impactful results without introducing complicated processes.

What are the key features of Torq?

Adaptive Agentic Insights: Provides real-time threat intelligence tailored to specific security challenges.
Automation: Automates responses to security incidents, minimizing manual intervention requirements.
Threat Lifecycle Management: Comprehensive handling of threats from detection to remediation.
Telemetry Aggregation: Integrates data across platforms for a unified security overview.

Why consider Torq based on reviews?

Efficiency: Users notice significant reductions in time spent managing threats.
Risk Reduction: Enhanced ability to identify and address critical threats promptly.
Resource Optimization: Allows teams to allocate effort to other critical tasks by reducing manual security operations.
Scalability: Adaptable to meet the demands of growing or changing infrastructures.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Torq shows effectiveness by adapting to specific risk scenarios often encountered in these fields. Its integration with existing infrastructures makes it a valuable asset for maintaining stringent security standards, essential for protecting critical data and operations in diverse high-stakes environments.

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Microsoft Sentinel offers cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities with AI-powered threat detection, automated responses, and integration with Microsoft products. It is designed for comprehensive threat management with flexible deployment and scalability.

Microsoft Sentinel provides centralized management of cloud-based security monitoring and incident detection. Leveraging AI capabilities, it enhances threat intelligence and automation, allowing users to streamline security operations across cloud and on-premises systems. Microsoft Sentinel efficiently aggregates logs, correlates security events from multiple sources, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft security offerings such as Defender. While its flexible deployment options and robust automation through playbooks are advantageous, users may encounter challenges with integration outside of Microsoft products, potential log ingestion delays, and a complex query language. The platform would benefit from enhanced speed, a simplified interface, improved query performance, and stronger documentation support.

What are the most important features of Microsoft Sentinel?

Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR: Enables security event management and orchestration in a cloud environment.
AI-powered threat detection: Utilizes artificial intelligence for identifying potential security threats.
Automated response playbooks: Automates routine responses to improve efficiency.
Data ingestion from multiple sources: Integrates with diverse data inputs for comprehensive visibility.
Integration with Microsoft products: Seamless collaboration with Microsoft security tools.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Enhanced threat visibility: Improves detection of security threats in various environments.
Reduced manual tasks: Automates processes to lessen human workload.
Scalable deployment: Offers flexibility for growing organizational requirements.
Centralized management: Simplifies oversight and management of threat detection and response.
Improved response times: Accelerates incident handling to minimize potential damage.

In specific industries, Microsoft Sentinel is utilized for its capability to monitor cloud-based workloads and detect incidents effectively. Users in healthcare, finance, and retail adopt it for its strong AI-driven threat detection and its ability to integrate with existing Microsoft solutions, ensuring high-level security operations and compliance with industry standards.

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Swimlane provides a centralized platform for security orchestration, automation, and response. It enhances operational efficiency and reduces workloads through drag-and-drop task automation and integration capabilities.

Swimlane empowers IT teams by streamlining tasks with minimal coding, offering extensive customization, and enabling efficient incident response. Its features include centralized logging, visual workflow representation, and integration with third-party tools. Swimlane's task persistence and case management improve operational control but face issues with stability and latency. While marketed as a no-code platform, setup complexity requires skilled developers. Enhancing search, AI, and scalability is vital for improved usage in multinational environments.

What are Swimlane's essential features?

Centralized Log Portal: Provides a unified view of logs improving monitoring.
Drag-and-Drop Design: Facilitates workflow creation with minimal coding.
Integrations: Seamlessly connects with third-party tools.
Visual Workflow: Allows clear representation of processes.
Customizable Dashboards: Enables tailored data visualization.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Operational Efficiency: Saves time by automating repetitive tasks.
Reduced Workload: Distributes tasks across teams enhancing productivity.
Cost Savings: Lowers operational costs through streamlined processes.
Incident Response: Improves management with adaptable case features.

In industries like IT and security, Swimlane serves as a SOAR platform for incident management and enriched alert integration. It's used for designing customer journey architectures and task assignments in multinational environments, despite requiring improvements in its initial setup and orchestration.

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

LinkedIn, TransUnion, Citrix, Aetna, Perspecta

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