We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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."It's not very complicated to install Elastic."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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 feature for me is Discover."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"This tool is simple to use."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"We did previously use a different solution, but SolarWinds is much better. It's easy to interact with SolarWinds. It's easy to operate, easy to configure and is generally easier compared to what we were working with before."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is the analysis and the knowledge about the incidence that we trace."
"Some of the rules are most valuable because you can be notified about various things, such as spyware or things that are going on in the internal network."
"It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user."
"The Integration module could be improved. It is a pain to build integration with any product. We have to do parking and so on. It's not like other commercial solutions that use profile integration. I would also see more detection features on the SIEM side."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"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 biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"Sometimes, the solution isn't the easiest to use."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"We'd like more customization capabilities."
"It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution."
"We used the support from SolarWinds Security Event Manager and they are knowledgeable but challenging to get in contact with them."
"The product should improve the ease with which you can create event alerts. They are not as hard now but you need to have an easier way."
"I would like to be able to dig deeper into the visibility of events or incidents to determine whether they are malicious, such as by doing behavior analysis."
"One of the drawbacks of being so flexible is that it is also a fairly complicated software application to install, configure, and maintain."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 59 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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 Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security and Wazuh. See our Elastic Security vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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