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Swimlane pros and cons

Vendor: Swimlane

3.9 out of 5

14 reviews
92% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Swimlane effectively represents workflows, saving time in designing processes and facilitating manpower efficiency, with AI/ML capabilities enhancing cybersecurity automation. It provides a centralized portal for logs, improves response times, and boosts alert management. However, its stability is often challenged, with ineffective search functionality and lack of scalability. Initial setup requires specialized knowledge, and changes between environments can be problematic due to limited version control.

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PROS

Swimlane effectively represents workflows involving multiple users, saving 80 to 90 percent of time in designing journeys and passing information to components.

Swimlane provides a single portal for logs from different solutions, aiding in streamlined operations.

Swimlane facilitates significant manpower savings, enabling two SOC analysts to work as efficiently as ten without the tool.

Swimlane improves response times and efficiency in alert management and documentation, reducing manual work.

Swimlane's support is highly valuable, and the integration of advanced AI/ML capabilities enhances cybersecurity automation.

CONS

Stability is a concern with frequent issues experienced.

The search functionality is ineffective with limitations in differentiating between cases.

Lacks scalability, requiring manual configuration and a DevOps engineer for maintenance.

Complexity in initial setup and deployment needing specialized knowledge.

Changes between environments are challenging due to insufficient version control.

Swimlane Pros review quotes

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Saketkumar Kumar

Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 27, 2026

Swimlane positively impacts my organization as it is a product company that provides cybersecurity automation, and with multiple releases we now have a product called Turbine where we can do the same thing in a more advanced way with agentic AI and the use of AI/ML capabilities.

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reviewer1248516

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.

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reviewer2847426

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.

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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.

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reviewer2714010

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.

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Associate at Deloitte

Mar 18, 2025

Our primary goal was to reduce analyst time, and we have been successful in that.

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Utkarsh Srivastavaa

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.

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reviewer2857164

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.

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reviewer2686428

Works

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.

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FS

Operation Analyst at Aurea

Apr 2, 2025

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

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Swimlane Cons review quotes

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Saketkumar Kumar

Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 27, 2026

You can improve Swimlane by allowing customers to raise feature requests if they feel some important fields are missing, and they can reach out to the support team to suggest features that need to be added or to request a simpler UI.

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reviewer1248516

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.

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reviewer2847426

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.

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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.

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reviewer2714010

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.

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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.

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Utkarsh Srivastavaa

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.

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reviewer2857164

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.

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reviewer2686428

Works

Apr 2, 2025

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

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FS

Operation Analyst at Aurea

Apr 2, 2025

Swimlane is currently two-dimensional. If a third dimension could be added, it might be more useful.

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