We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Security Onion 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 feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"Its flexibility is most valuable. We can have a number of scenarios, and we can get logs from anything. If we know how to use Logstash, we can tweak it in many ways. This makes the logging search on Elastic very easy."
"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."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"It could use maybe a little more on the Linux side."
"An area for improvement in Elastic Security is the pricing. It could be better. Right now, when you increase the volume of logs to be collected, the price also increases a lot."
"The problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"It would be better if Elastic Security had less storage for data. My customers do not like this. Other vendors have local support in different countries, but Elastic Security doesn't. I would like to have Operational Technology (OT) security in the next release."
"Their visuals and graphs need to be better."
"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 30th in Log Management with 3 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. 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 Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Grafana Loki. See our Elastic Security vs. Security Onion report.
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