We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Log360 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.
"ManageEngine Log360 is not difficult to deploy."
"It is nice to be able to monitor and to have notifications."
"It is easier to deploy than are other SIEMs, which is great. You can also get an overview of your environment, which is very handy."
"You can have all of the logs from servers to network and it gets sent out to the correct owners. This is very helpful."
"The Sharecon feature is the most valuable."
"The reports that you can run are really nice."
"The most valuable features for us are the application logs monitoring and the dashboard, which provides a single-pane view of all the ongoing activities."
"The reporting is great. Everything you need is in the report for you already."
"The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"SolarWinds is easy to configure, and it provides timely alerts."
"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 solution helps me to go back in time and search for different events. For example, if you wanted to know who activated an account; you could go back in time and find out."
"It supports high availability, which is very helpful."
"SolarWinds is effective for server, network, and log monitoring. It's also good for IP address management. We also have a patch manager, but we're still working on getting that operational."
"The support needs improvement."
"The solution needs to improve hub storage. It should integrate AI and ML capabilities."
"We can log in as a local user, and it's fine, but when we login with an Active Directory user, we cannot."
"Their technical support should be improved."
"Most times log sheets are not assigned well."
"It's difficult to find which conditions have been applied to a report because they are provided by default by ManageEngine. However, with other SIEMs if you want to create a report, they provide details, like which conditions are triggering certain reports. This needs to be there in ManageEngine. It would be good to know which parameter has been applied to the report that is updating the system."
"The solution lacks some features when compared to other products."
"It takes a little bit of time for Log360 to actually learn your environment."
"SolarWinds should improve its correlation capabilities. The correlation does not automatically detect and reduce the events fast enough. You have to manually do a correlation report, which means the tool is not scalable in many ways."
"I don't think SolarWinds is scalable enough. It is somewhat limited when I need to deploy it across multiple environments in a distributed architecture."
"It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery."
"Under the new system, it is not upgradable the way they say. When you try to do an upgrade, it doesn't really work unless you dump everything and start from scratch. You lose a lot of your nodes. Whenever you set your nodes up and everything else, they don't want to bring those nodes back in, so you have to really go back and restructure all your nodes. I went from version 6.5 to version 6.6 and then to version 6.7. I then went to version 2019, and now it is version 2020. It would be good if we can upgrade without having to delete everything and start from scratch. They can maybe build more KPIs and other things for the dashboard. Some of the other systems already have built-in KPIs. SolarWinds is starting to catch up, but it is not there yet. They can include some of the business or industry standards for tracking the time, that is, the meantime to detect (MTTD) and the meantime to resolve (MTTR). They can also find a way to build a KPI that measures the number of instances of port scans experienced in a week or a month."
"I imagine we will have to develop our own reports soon, this seems to be more cumbersome."
"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."
"There are no multiple dashboards which would allow you to see information side-by-side."
"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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ManageEngine Log360 is ranked 24th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 15 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews. ManageEngine Log360 is rated 7.2, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Log360 writes "Facilitates incident backtracking and identifying the cause of incidents but insufficient intelligence-driven analysis to suppress unnecessary alerts". 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". ManageEngine Log360 is most compared with ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiSIEM and CrowdStrike Observability, whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender XDR. See our ManageEngine Log360 vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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