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 feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"ELK Logstash is easy and fast, at least for the initial setup with the out of box uses."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to collect authentication information from service providers."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"The cost is reasonable. It's not overly pricey."
"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."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"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 best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"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."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"Improvements in Elastic Security could include refining and normalizing queries to make them more user-friendly, enhancing the user experience with better documentation, and addressing any latency issues."
"Their visuals and graphs need to be better."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"One thing they could add is a quick step to enable users who don't have a solid background to build a dashboard and quickly search, without difficulty."
"Elastic Security can be a bit difficult to use if a person only has experience in SMBs with tools like Zoho. The product can also be difficult for those who have never dealt with query language."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"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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