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 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."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"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."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"I like the indexing of the logs."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"Elastic has a lot of beats, such as Winlogbeat and Filebeat. Beats are the agents that have to be installed on the terminals to send the data. When we install beats or Elastic agents on every terminal, they don't overload the terminals. In other SIEM solutions such as Splunk or QRadar, when beats or agents are installed on endpoints, they are very heavy for the terminals. They consume a lot of power of the terminals, whereas Elastic agents hardly consume any power and don't overload the terminals."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"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."
"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."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"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."
"We had issues with scalability. Logstash was not scaling and aggregation was getting delayed. We moved to Fluentd making our stack from ELK to EFK."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
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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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