We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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 has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"The cost is reasonable. It's not overly pricey."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"The most valuable thing is that this solution is widely used for work management and research. It's easy to jump into the security use case with the same technology."
"What customers found most valuable in Elastic Security feature-wise is the search capability, in particular, the way of writing the search query and the speed of searching for results."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"It is very quick to react. I can set it to check anomalies or suspicious behavior every 30 seconds. It is very fast."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."
"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"The Integration module could be improved. It is a pain to build integration with any product. We have to do parking and so on. It's not like other commercial solutions that use profile integration. I would also see more detection features on the SIEM side."
"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"The solution could offer better reporting features."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."
"Log Insight should be better at dealing with audits and security logs. We use another product called QRadar for that."
"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."
"Technical support should be improved."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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