We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and SolarWinds Log Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"The product has huge integration varieties available."
"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."
"It can handle millions of loads at a time, and you can always use the filters to find exactly what you are looking for and detect errors in every log message you are searching for, basically."
"The indexes allow you to get your results quickly. The filtering and log passing is the advantage of Logstash."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"We've found the initial setup to be quite straightforward."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"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 solution needs to be more reactive to investigations. We need to be able to detect and prevent any attacks before it can damage our infrastructure. Currently, this solution doesn't offer that."
"Elastic Security has a steep learning curve, so it takes some time to tune it and set it up for your environment. There are some costs associated with logging things that don't have value. So you need to be cautious to only log things that make sense and keep them around for as long as you need. You shouldn't hold onto things just because you think you might need them."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."
"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."
"We're using the open-source edition, for now, I think maybe they can allow their OLED plugin to be open source, as at the moment it is commercialised."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th in Log Management with 1 review. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is rated 0.0. 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 Log Analyzer writes "Can be used to monitor a specific log or do specific actions, but its initial setup is not so easy". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, Loggly and syslog-ng.
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