We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."Its flexibility is most valuable. We can have a number of scenarios, and we can get logs from anything. If we know how to use Logstash, we can tweak it in many ways. This makes the logging search on Elastic very easy."
"The visualization is very good."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"One limitation of Elastic Security is that it does not have built-in workflows for all tasks. For example, if you need a workflow for compliance, you will need to create a custom workflow."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"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."
"With Elastic Security, the challenge arises from the fact that there is a learning curve in relation to queries and understanding the query language provided to extract usable data."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"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."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
"Log Insight should be better at dealing with audits and security logs. We use another product called QRadar for that."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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