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PROS

Support is the most valuable feature of Swimlane, praised for its effectiveness.
Swimlane consolidates logs from various solutions into a single portal.
It saves significant time, reducing manual work and enabling efficient information transfer among components.
Swimlane allows efficient work, equating two analysts' output to that of ten without it, resulting in manpower savings.
Swimlane receives high praise as the best SOAR on the market and comes highly recommended.

CONS

Swimlane's stability has room for improvement and often faces issues.
It is not scalable as it involves manual configuration through coding.
There is a need for enhanced version control to facilitate moving changes between environments.
Management of Swimlane requires hardcore developers, adding complexity.
Swimlane requires improvements in speed and efficiency to reduce instances of hanging.
 

Swimlane Pros review quotes

reviewer1248516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 23, 2025
The biggest advantage of Swimlane for us is that it saves time, which in turn helps us in cost-saving.
reviewer2714010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 2, 2025
We are using it for a SOAR platform at a Cyber Security company which is MSSP.
reviewer2847426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security automation specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Jun 3, 2026
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.
Learn what your peers think about Swimlane. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
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MD
Software Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 4, 2025
On a scale of one to ten, this solution deserves a rating of nine.
SS
Associate at Deloitte
Mar 18, 2025
Our primary goal was to reduce analyst time, and we have been successful in that.
US
Senior Solutions Architect at Tata Consultancy
Apr 25, 2025
Swimlane saves us 80 to 90 percent of our time by quickly helping us design the journey and efficiently passing information to various components.
reviewer2857164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Critical Incident Response Center Analyst (Circulation) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 15, 2026
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.
Apr 2, 2025
Swimlane enables two SOC analysts to work efficiently as much as ten analysts would without Swimlane, which translates to significant manpower savings.
Srikanth Nuthalapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineering Manager at Deloitte
Jan 30, 2023
The most valuable feature of the solution is the support.
DN
L2 SOC Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Jul 12, 2023
It provides us with a single portal for our logs from different solutions.
 

Swimlane Cons review quotes

reviewer1248516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 23, 2025
One of the disadvantages of Swimlane is that to manage the platform, we need hardcore developers.
reviewer2714010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Consultant at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 2, 2025
Swimlane's search bar is not working effectively, and there is no option to differentiate between two cases at the same time.
reviewer2847426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security automation specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Jun 3, 2026
Swimlane's scalability was adequate to some extent, but then it needed a DevOps engineer to maintain it properly, which we lacked.
Learn what your peers think about Swimlane. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
900,747 professionals have used our research since 2012.
MD
Software Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 4, 2025
Swimlane is not scalable because it is not exposed. Currently, it's a manual component that requires configuration through coding.
SS
Associate at Deloitte
Mar 18, 2025
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.
US
Senior Solutions Architect at Tata Consultancy
Apr 25, 2025
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.
reviewer2857164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Critical Incident Response Center Analyst (Circulation) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 15, 2026
Swimlane can be improved by being faster and quicker so it is easier for us and does not hang sometimes.
Apr 2, 2025
I would like to see improvements in the minor bugs that occur with each update, as some features might have issues.
Srikanth Nuthalapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineering Manager at Deloitte
Jan 30, 2023
The stability of the solution has room for improvement.
DN
L2 SOC Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Jul 12, 2023
We faced a lot of issues with the product’s stability.