QRadar to Sentinel Migration

Overview

This guide covers the strategic and technical considerations for migrating from IBM QRadar to Microsoft Sentinel.

Content to be built from operational experience.

Migration Phases

  1. Assessment - Inventory log sources, rules, dashboards

  2. Planning - Map QRadar concepts to Sentinel equivalents

  3. Data Migration - Connect log sources to Sentinel

  4. Rule Migration - Convert AQL rules to KQL analytics rules

  5. Validation - Parallel operation and testing

  6. Cutover - Transition to Sentinel as primary

Query Language Mapping

AQL KQL

FROM events

SecurityEvent or appropriate table

WHERE username = 'admin'

| where Account == "admin"

GROUP BY sourceip

| summarize …​ by SourceIP

ORDER BY count DESC

| order by Count desc

LAST 24 HOURS

| where TimeGenerated > ago(24h)

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