We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Security Onion 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 is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"It's not very complicated to install Elastic."
"ELK Logstash is easy and fast, at least for the initial setup with the out of box uses."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"The problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."
"Elastic Security's maintenance is hard and its scalability is a challenge. There are complications in scaling and upgrading. The solution needs to also provide periodic upgrade checks."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"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."
"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 33rd in Log Management with 3 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. 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 Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Grafana Loki. See our Elastic Security vs. Security Onion report.
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