We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's open-source and free to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"It's easy to use."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
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"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"It could use maybe a little more on the Linux side."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"We'd like to see some more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"It could be more stable."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be even more automated."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The logging functionality could be better."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and New Relic. See our Elastic Security vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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