Take control of your SIEM future

Sumo Logic is a cloud-native, multi-tenant platform that instantly scales each component of its architecture up or down to meet demand.

QRadar’s cloud product was a lift-and-shift of its on-prem solution, requiring extra provisioning—at extra cost—to ingest and search at scale. With QRadar SaaS now end-of-life, cloud-first teams have no forward path.

Sumo Logic offers a unified platform for observability (logs, metrics, APM/traces, and RUM) and security (security data lake, audit and compliance, Cloud SIEM, and Cloud SOAR), simplifying tool consolidation.

QRadar’s portfolio (logs, EDR, SIEM, SOAR) is broad but complex and costly to implement, often requiring professional services—and it’s now split across vendors after IBM divested QRadar SaaS to Palo Alto Networks.

Sumo Logic is platform- and vendor-agnostic, collecting logs and security-relevant data across on-prem, cloud, and multi-cloud environments with no additional hardware.

QRadar requires deploying and maintaining data gateway/collector appliances to forward logs, adding hardware and operational overhead.

Sumo Logic includes an integrated, out-of-the-box TIP—leveraging CrowdStrike (OEM) to add threat context to security events—and can also integrate external intelligence feeds.

QRadar offers an integrated TIP, but it requires purchasing the IBM X-Force / Advanced Threat Protection feed at additional cost.

Sumo Logic indexes all log data—structured and unstructured—without forcing it into predefined schemas, enabling fast time-to-value and flexible search.

In QRadar, data must be pre-parsed into fields before you can search on it. If a field hasn’t been parsed, you’re limited to keyword searches.

Sumo Logic uses a simple, credit-based licensing model that delivers predictability and flexibility, scaling with your use cases rather than your headcount.

QRadar’s user-based licensing ties cost to employee count (~1 EPS per user) with limited default retention, making spend hard to align with actual usage.