Vectra AI vs. Darktrace

With severe limitations on connections per minute — no more than 10,000 users — traffic can be dropped before throughput capacity is reached.

Darktrace offers cloud monitoring capabilities, but log queries are throttled by cloud providers creating detection latency and coverage gaps for attackers using eDiscovery and Power Automate.

Darktrace integrations are built to improve alerts rather than supporting customers’ existing EDR and XDR investments.

There's a dark side to Darktrace. Because it sends alerts for everything that’s different — instead of just what’s critical — analysts are forced to do the heavy lifting when differentiating benign activity from malicious attacks.

Without full context on an attack, analysts spend a fair amount of time figuring out if anomalous means bad.

While it’s possible to tune, creating defeat rules is complex and requires a large number for each module. The result is countless hours of error-prone work with no ability to audit.

If you want to expand it, the operator must add Antigena rules to thousands of models. If you choose to expand autonomous blocking, you may end up disrupting legitimate traffic for what are false positives.

You’ll see how much processing their device has done and how much SOC analyst time is offloaded. But it doesn’t account for how many human hours go into tuning the product.

Darktrace alerts on limited low-level conditions, leaving operators with thousands of events to track as opposed to providing simple compliance reporting.