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."Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"The scalability is good. It can be scaled easily in the production environment."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is more flexible than AlienVault."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"Sometimes, the solution isn't the easiest to use."
"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."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."
"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"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 33rd 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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