We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Google Chronicle Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"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 solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the search option, allowing easy navigation."
"What sets Chronicle apart from other solutions is its emphasis on threat hunting rather than solely serving as a monitoring tool."
"The product's most valuable feature is threat hunting. We can detect the threats directly from the console from the past data as well."
"Google Chronicle Suite provides useful APIs."
"Google Chronicle Suite is a highly scalable solution with good search capabilities."
"The log folder is fairly simple."
"The support team is responsive."
"The platform's most valuable features are multiple connectors and data output flexibility regarding dashboards and user experience."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"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 problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"The solution could offer better reporting features."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the UI can be a bit challenging for beginners."
"The tool needs to improve tasking packages. Its GUI needs to be improved. The product needs to include time-based filtration. We can only see the alert detection timeline now."
"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) should be more user-friendly."
"The configuration is not optimal."
"The tool is complicated for a first-time user. It should also include newer APIs."
"The product's default dashboard feature has a few limitations regarding availability."
"A few areas are difficult to understand for someone who has less experience using the product."
"The tool is a little bit difficult to use compared to Microsoft Sentinel."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 59 reviews while Google Chronicle Suite is ranked 28th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 8 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Google Chronicle Suite 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 Google Chronicle Suite writes "Swiftly navigates and analyzes extensive datasets without significant delays ". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Google Chronicle Suite is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, AWS Security Hub, Sentinel and Rapid7 InsightIDR. See our Elastic Security vs. Google Chronicle Suite report.
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