We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Elastic Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"Elastic Security is a highly flexible platform that can be implemented anywhere."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"It could use maybe a little more on the Linux side."
"It would be better if Elastic Security had less storage for data. My customers do not like this. Other vendors have local support in different countries, but Elastic Security doesn't. I would like to have Operational Technology (OT) security in the next release."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"There should be a simulation environment to check whether my Elastic implementation is functioning perfectly fine. Other solutions have their own Android and iOS applications that I can install on my mobile so that I am continuously connected to the SIEM."
"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."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Elastic Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and IBM Security QRadar.
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