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Pricing and Cost Advice
"We use the open-source version, so there is no charge for this solution."
"We are using the free, open-source version of this solution."
"Elastic Stack is an open-source tool. You don't have to pay anything for the components."
"There is no charge for using the open-source version."
"This is an open-source product, so there are no costs."
"It's a monthly cost with Elastic SIEM, but I am not sure of the exact cost."
"It is easy to deploy, easy to use, and you get everything you need to become operational with it, and have nothing further to pay unless you want the OLED plugin."
"Compared to other products such as Dynatrace, this is one of the cheaper options."
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Elastic Security is a robust, open-source security solution designed to offer integrated threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities across an organization's entire digital estate. Part of the Elastic Stack (which includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Elastic Security leverages the power of search, analytics, and data aggregation to provide real-time insight into threats and vulnerabilities. It is a comprehensive platform that supports a wide range of security needs, from endpoint protection to cloud and network security, making it a versatile choice for organizations looking to enhance their cybersecurity posture.
Elastic Security combines the features of a security information and event management (SIEM) system with endpoint protection, allowing organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. This unified approach helps reduce complexity and improve the efficiency of security operations.
Additional offerings and benefits:
The platform utilizes advanced analytics, machine learning algorithms, and anomaly detection to identify threats and suspicious activities.
It offers extensive integration options with other tools and platforms, facilitating a more cohesive and comprehensive security ecosystem.
With Kibana, users gain access to powerful visualization tools and dashboards that provide real-time insight into security data.
Finally, Elastic Security benefits from a global community of users who contribute to its threat intelligence, helping to enhance its detection capabilities. This collaborative approach ensures that the solution remains on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, with up-to-date information on the latest threats and vulnerabilities.
Sematext Logs is a cloud-based SaaS log management solution that offers you real-time actionable insights into your log analytics with hosted ELK as a service, in the cloud or on-premises. Logs can be aggregated from a variety of sources using it because it's compatible with a large number of log shippers, libraries, platforms, and frameworks. Sematext’s auto-discovery of logs and services lets you automatically start log monitoring from both log files and containers and forward them directly through the user interface. Sematext Logs features sophisticated full-text searching, filtering, and tagging capabilities and allows you to correlate logs with infrastructure and application metrics within a single dashboard.
Sematext Logs Benefits
Centralized logging With Sematext Logs, you can store and aggregate logs from all your data sources, including servers, infrastructure, apps, databases, containers, and systems, in a central location.
Hosted ELK as a service Using Sematext Logs, you will benefit from an Elasticsearch API and Kibana in the cloud without having to manage the infrastructure or pay for expensive consultants. Select a log shipper that works for you - Logstash, Filebeat, rsyslog, Logagent, etc. Analyze logs, and correlate them with infrastructure and application metrics.
Alerting on Logs Embrace the simplicity and ease of troubleshooting with our metric and log alerts, so you can concentrate on such matters as working on other projects or getting other work done. Sematext analyzes logs for optimal health when detecting anomalies, so you don't have to worry about those things.
Log security Utilize a centralized log management service to maintain security and compliance for cloud-native applications. AWS runs Sematext Logs, whose infrastructure follows IT security best practices and adheres to a variety of compliance standards such as SOC 1/SSAE, SOC 2, SOC 3,16/ISAE 3402 (formerly SAS 70 Type II), FISMA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, and HIPAA.
Powerful Searching and Filtering Using fast and intuitive search tools, you can search, filter, and analyze log data to identify and fix issues before they affect your business and prevent them from getting worse.
Saved Searches & Log Taggings Rerun recent and saved searches without typing them again. Save any query as Saved Search or Alert Query. Run Live Tail for any Saved Search. Autocomplete recent and saved searches. Tag Saved Searches with custom labels and colors. See log charts for Saved Searches at a glance, without running them.
100+ integrations Use any of the compatible log shippers, logging libraries, platforms, and frameworks to make the most out of your logs. Supports all standard logging facilities and agents, ships logs via Syslog, ship from apps via Log4j, Logback, Log4j 2, Log4net, Winston, Python SyslogHandler... Supports Java, PHP, Perl, GoLang, Python, .NET, Ruby, and JavaScript. Ship with anything that can talk to Elasticsearch or Syslog.
Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Logs
Integration with other Sematext Cloud components, such as Infrastructure Monitoring, Synthetics, and Experience. For example, you can have dashboards with widgets from any component, so you can see which error caused that CPU spike
Spike-friendly pricing. Ingestion is averaged out and calculated on top of the “base” plan. For example, if you have the cheapest paid plan ($50/month, supports 1GB/day) and send 60GB in a month (2GB per day, on average), you end up paying $100
Configurable overage – you can choose when Sematext stops accepting logs, to control your cost
Per-silo pricing. You can create multiple “apps”, for example, Production and QA. Each can have its own plan (volume, retention) and overage configuration
Agent-free: any log shipper or library that works with syslog or Elasticsearch will work with Sematext Logs
Elasticsearch API access beyond indexing: you can run searches, export data, create custom templates, and more
Extra features on top of the ELK stack are available, such as role-based access control, alerting, and anomaly detection
Where to go from here?
Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. We offer both free and paid plans. Our commercial plan starts at $50 per GB per day for 7-day retention and you can try it free for 14 days. The free plan includes 500 MB per day.
Sample Customers
Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Sematext Logs is ranked 60th in Log Management. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Sematext Logs is rated 0.0. 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, Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Sematext Logs is most compared with Graylog, Grafana Loki and Logsign Next-Gen SIEM.
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