We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 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."It's very customizable, which is quite helpful."
"It's a good platform and the very best in the current market. We looked at the Forester report from December 2022 where it was said to be a leader."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The visualization is very good."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"We're using the open-source edition, for now, I think maybe they can allow their OLED plugin to be open source, as at the moment it is commercialised."
"There is an area of improvement in the Logs list. The load list may need to be paginated as there are limits."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"The solution does not have a UI and this is one of the reasons we are looking for another solution."
"We'd like to see some more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"We'd like better premium support."
"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."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 30th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 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 Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Shows login failures and server issues but search functions and filters could be improved". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and ManageEngine Log360. See our Elastic Security vs. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server report.
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