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."The visualization is very good."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The graphical user interface is very user-friendly. SolarWinds is a hybrid solution so you can use it across many platforms."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user."
"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 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."
"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."
"It's extremely easy to deploy."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"There is room for improvement in the Kibana dashboard and in the asset management for the program."
"There is an area of improvement in the Logs list. The load list may need to be paginated as there are limits."
"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."
"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."
"It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution."
"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."
"Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."
"There is no correlation made between log entries, so no threat information is presented."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
"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."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"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."
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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, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar. See our Elastic Security vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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