Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM, strongest when Microsoft sits at the center of your estate. Vigilbase is the cybersecurity operating system: it connects the security tools you already pay for, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Defender XDR included, and has the Vigil agent investigate and respond within the authority you set.
The short answer
Choose Vigilbase when your stack mixes vendors, such as Cloudflare at the edge, Okta or Entra ID for identity, and CrowdStrike or SentinelOne on endpoints, and you want them operating as one system.
Keep Microsoft Sentinel when it is the foundation for your security analytics, incident investigation, and configured automation.
Run both when Sentinel remains your Microsoft analytics and archive layer and Vigilbase runs day-to-day operations across the tools it connects. Vigilbase does not read from Sentinel, so confirm how data reaches each system.
How they actually differ
Sentinel asks you to bring data to Azure and build on it. Vigilbase connects to each tool where it runs.
Each native connector knows its provider’s datasets, so events arrive in a common schema with analysis already switched on. You do not have to build a detection library before the platform is useful.
Native connectors cover edge, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and email security, including Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Imperva, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender XDR, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Zscaler, AWS, Google Cloud, Proofpoint, and Mimecast. Wiz is coming soon.
Log collection and analysis differ by provider, and a connection does not mean every response action is available. Where the platform cannot act directly, the investigation returns the steps for your team to complete.
What the operating system adds
Every connected tool feeds one auditable record. Each team gets dashboards over that record, and the Vigil agent opens investigations on high-severity incidents instead of waiting for someone to write a KQL query.
You choose the autonomy: keep actions off, propose them for approval, or allow low-risk, reversible actions to run. Agents work from evidence and remediate in scope. Humans set authority, approve changes when required, and handle exceptions. The record shows the investigation, actions taken, and verification results.
Vigilbase combines native Cloudflare integration with Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare. Confirm the required products, permissions, commercial terms, and operating scope with us.
Microsoft Sentinel in depth
Microsoft Sentinel provides security analytics across multicloud and multiplatform environments. It includes orchestration, automation, and response capabilities, with connectors to Microsoft and third-party data sources.
Sentinel suits teams with Azure skills who want to write their own analytics rules and playbooks, and who are comfortable managing workspace ingestion and retention costs.
Tools without a native connector can send Splunk HTTP Event Collector-compatible logs to a custom source. Those logs are stored alongside your other sources, but they are not analyzed automatically and carry no response actions.
Pricing and scope
Compare written quotes for the same connected systems, data volume, retention, operating responsibilities, and response authority. Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare have their own agreed scope. We do not claim a universal savings percentage or bundled coverage.
Compare the Sentinel data, retention, and automation configuration you need with the connected systems and response scope proposed for Vigilbase.
Default retention is set per dataset, typically 30 to 90 days. If you need a long-term archive or compliance retention, decide where that data lives before you consolidate.
How to choose
Start with the tools you already pay for and the security work you need done. On a discovery call, we map that stack onto the platform and show you the operating system live, including a representative investigation, a permitted response, and its verification record.
If your current Microsoft Sentinel workflow remains necessary, retain it while validating Vigilbase against the agreed scope. A migration plan should establish data coverage, response ownership, and acceptance checks before any cutover.