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."It's open-source and free to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because of Elastic's efficient search engine."
"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've found the initial setup to be quite straightforward."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"Elastic has one problem. In the past, Elastic Security was free. Now, they currently only offer the basic license or a certain period of time."
"We'd like better premium support."
"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."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"There are connectors to gather logs for Windows PCs and Linux PCs, but if we have to get the logs from Syslog then we have to do it manually, and this should be automated."
"There should be a simulation environment to check whether my Elastic implementation is functioning perfectly fine. Other solutions have their own Android and iOS applications that I can install on my mobile so that I am continuously connected to the SIEM."
"The problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"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."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 30th 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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