We performed a comparison between Graylog and Security Onion 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."I like the correlation and the alerting."
"UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface."
"Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."
"The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"We run a containerized microservices environment. Being able to set up streams and search for errors and anomalies across hundreds of containers is why a log aggregation platform like Graylog is valuable to us."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved."
"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"It would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community."
"Lacks sufficient documentation."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"We ran into problems with Elasticsearch throwing a circuit-breaking exception due to field data size being too large. It turned out that the heap size directly impacted this size in a high-throughput environment, causing unexplained instability in Graylog. We were able to troubleshoot on the Elasticsearch size, but we should have been able to reference some minimum requirements for Graylog to know that our settings weren't sufficient."
"I would like to see a date and time in the Graylog Grok patterns so that I can save time when searching for a log. I like how the streams and the search query work, but adding a date and time will allow me to pull out a log in a milli-second."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 37th in Log Management with 3 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Graylog writes "Great detailed search features and easy Java integration, but needs improvement in integration with Python". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Kali Linux. See our Graylog vs. Security Onion report.
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