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The Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP® applications will be billed as an add-on charge after May 1, 2023 at $-per system ID (production SID only) per hour in addition to the existing Microsoft Sentinel data consumption-based billing model. The solution will be free when a workspace is in a Microsoft Sentinel free trial.
- Overview
- Free trial
- Identify data sources and plan costs accordingly
- Estimate costs and billing before using Microsoft Sentinel
- Understand the full billing model for Microsoft Sentinel
- Costs and pricing for other services
- Data retention and archived logs costs
- Other CEF ingestion costs
- Costs that might accrue after resource deletion
- Free data sources
As you plan your Microsoft Sentinel deployment, you typically want to understand its pricing and billing models to optimize your costs. Microsoft Sentinel's security analytics data is stored in an Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace. Billing is based on the volume of data analyzed in Microsoft Sentinel and stored in the Log Analytics workspace. The cost of both is combined in a simplified pricing tier. Learn more about the simplified pricing tiers or learn more about Microsoft Sentinel pricing in general.
Before you add any resources for Microsoft Sentinel, use the Azure pricing calculator to help estimate your costs.
Costs for Microsoft Sentinel are only a portion of the monthly costs in your Azure bill. Although this article explains how to plan costs and understand the billing for Microsoft Sentinel, you're billed for all Azure services and resources your Azure subscription uses, including Partner services.
This article is part of the Deployment guide for Microsoft Sentinel.
Enable Microsoft Sentinel on an Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace and the first 10 GB/day is free for 31 days. The cost for both Log Analytics data ingestion and Microsoft Sentinel analysis charges up to the 10 GB/day limit are waived during the 31-day trial period. This free trial is subject to a 20 workspace limit per Azure tenant.
Usage beyond these limits will be charged per the pricing listed on the Microsoft Sentinel pricing page. Charges related to extra capabilities for automation and bring your own machine learning are still applicable during the free trial.
Identify the data sources you're ingesting or plan to ingest to your workspace in Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft Sentinel allows you to bring in data from one or more data sources. Some of these data sources are free, and others incur charges. For more information, see Free data sources.
Use the Microsoft Sentinel pricing calculator to estimate new or changing costs. Enter Microsoft Sentinel in the Search box and select the resulting Microsoft Sentinel tile. The pricing calculator helps you estimate your likely costs based on your expected data ingestion and retention.
For example, enter the GB of daily data you expect to ingest in Microsoft Sentinel, and the region for your workspace. The calculator provides the aggregate monthly cost across these components:
•Microsoft Sentinel: Analytics logs and basic logs
•Azure Monitor: Retention
•Azure Monitor: Data Restore
•Azure Monitor: Search Queries and Search Jobs
Microsoft Sentinel offers a flexible and predictable pricing model. For more information, see the Microsoft Sentinel pricing page. Workspaces older than July 2023 might have Log Analytics workspace charges separate from Microsoft Sentinel in a classic pricing tier. For the related Log Analytics charges, see Azure Monitor Log Analytics pricing.
Microsoft Sentinel runs on Azure infrastructure that accrues costs when you deploy new resources. It's important to understand that there could be other, extra infrastructure costs that might accrue.
Microsoft Sentinel integrates with many other Azure services, including Azure Logic Apps, Azure Notebooks, and bring your own machine learning (BYOML) models. Some of these services might have extra charges. Some of Microsoft Sentinel's data connectors and solutions use Azure Functions for data ingestion, which also has a separate associated cost.
Learn about pricing for these services:
•Automation-Logic Apps pricing
•Notebooks pricing
•BYOML pricing
•Azure Functions pricing
After you enable Microsoft Sentinel on a Log Analytics workspace consider these configuration options:
•Retain all data ingested into the workspace at no charge for the first 90 days. Retention beyond 90 days is charged per the standard Log Analytics retention prices.
•Specify different retention settings for individual data types. Learn about retention by data type.
•Enable long-term retention for your data and have access to historical logs by enabling archived logs. Data archive is a low-cost retention layer for archival storage. It's charged based on the volume of data stored and scanned. Learn how to configure data retention and archive policies in Azure Monitor Logs. Archived logs are in public preview.
CEF is a supported Syslog events format in Microsoft Sentinel. Use CEF to bring in valuable security information from various sources to your Microsoft Sentinel workspace. CEF logs land in the CommonSecurityLog table in Microsoft Sentinel, which includes all the standard up-to-date CEF fields.
Many devices and data sources support logging fields beyond the standard CEF schema. These extra fields land in the AdditionalExtensions table. These fields could have higher ingestion volumes than the standard CEF fields, because the event content within these fields can be variable.
Removing Microsoft Sentinel doesn't remove the Log Analytics workspace Microsoft Sentinel was deployed on, or any separate charges that workspace might be incurring.
The following data sources are free with Microsoft Sentinel:
•Azure Activity Logs.
•Office 365 Audit Logs, including all SharePoint activity, Exchange admin activity, and Teams.
•Security alerts, including alerts from Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
•Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps alerts.
Although alerts are free, the raw logs for some Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure Information Protection (AIP) data types are paid.
Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) that delivers an intelligent and comprehensive solution for SIEM and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Microsoft Sentinel provides cyberthreat detection, investigation, response, and proactive hunting, with a bird's-eye view ...
Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) platform that uses built-in AI to help analyze large volumes of data across an enterprise—fast. Microsoft Sentinel aggregates data from all sources, including users, applications, servers, and devices running on premises or in any cloud, letting you reason over millions of records in a few seconds.
Microsoft Sentinel aggregates data from all sources, including users, applications, servers, and devices running on premises or in any cloud, letting you reason over millions of records in a few seconds. It includes built-in connectors for easy onboarding of popular security solutions.
Sep 16, 2024 · Reduce data retention costs with long-term retention. Microsoft Sentinel retains data by default in interactive form for the first 90 days. To adjust the data retention period in Log Analytics, select Usage and estimated costs in the left navigation, then select Data retention, and then adjust the slider.
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Jul 10, 2023 · Free Trials . We are also moving to a single free trial offer s tarting July 5 th, 2023, for new and existing workspaces that enable Microsoft Sentinel. With this 31-day trial, customers can freely ingest up to 10 GB per day of Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics. The other trial with uncapped Microsoft Sentinel ingest will be discontinued.
