We performed a comparison between USM Anywhere 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."The new cloud-based panel is excellent both for client review as well as for our SOC to review and respond to threats. It is much easier to configure and use than the previous solution from AlienVault."
"AT&T AlienVault USM is good for ELK Stack, the user experience is great because of its architecture. The ELK has a great performance and it has very good speed in the search and Kibana. Additionally, the visuals and dashboards and very nice and customizable."
"The vulnerability scanning is helpful to identify the areas that need patching or fixes installed."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful."
"The asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail and have changes made being monitored into one source."
"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."
"It allows you to define what alerts you want to see, or not to see, as well as if you want them grouped, or ungrouped."
"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"The events are notably more descriptive, aiding in security and event analysis. We've also integrated Sky Collector, providing valuable insights and solutions for troubleshooting."
"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."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."
"Support can be slow at times, but the quality is high. Posted knowledge base articles could use improvement."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"AlienVault cannot automatically respond to threats like other SIEM solutions, such as Sentinel and LogRhythm. Most of our clients are far away, so it's often challenging to handle alerts when they come up on our dashboard."
"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."
"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."
"Pay attention to false-positive event automatic correlations."
"The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative."
"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
"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."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
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USM Anywhere is ranked 17th in Log Management with 113 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 9th in Log Management with 24 reviews. USM Anywhere is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". 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". USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our USM Anywhere vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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