Powerful, and the bill will teach you data discipline
3.4/5overall, average of the five axes
Deployment effort3
Support quality3
Features vs promises4
Pricing transparency3
Return on investment4
What happened
Sentinel gave us a SIEM without a hardware refresh and KQL is a pleasure once it clicks. The lesson was ingestion cost: our first full month was double the estimate because we piped in everything. We now split tables between analytics and basic logs, and we drop what we cannot articulate a detection use for. That discipline is healthy, but you should arrive expecting it rather than discovering it on an invoice.
Worked well
KQL. Native integration with Entra and Defender. No infrastructure to run.
Did not
Ingestion pricing punishes the pipe-everything approach. Some connectors are thin. Workbook editing is fiddly.
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