We performed a comparison between Elastic Security 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 most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"It is scalable."
"The scalability is good. It can be scaled easily in the production environment."
"Its flexibility is most valuable. We can have a number of scenarios, and we can get logs from anything. If we know how to use Logstash, we can tweak it in many ways. This makes the logging search on Elastic very easy."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"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."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"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)."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"The interface could be more user friendly because it is sometimes hard to deal with."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"One thing they could add is a quick step to enable users who don't have a solid background to build a dashboard and quickly search, without difficulty."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."
"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 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". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, IBM Security QRadar and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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