We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 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."The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The indexes allow you to get your results quickly. The filtering and log passing is the advantage of Logstash."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"It's a good platform and the very best in the current market. We looked at the Forester report from December 2022 where it was said to be a leader."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"In terms of what could be improved with Elastic, in some use cases, especially on the advanced level, they are not ready made, so you'll have to write some scripts."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 32nd in Log Management with 5 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 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 SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Shows login failures and server issues but search functions and filters could be improved". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). See our Elastic Security vs. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server report.
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