We performed a comparison between LogRhythm SIEM and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Users praised LogRhythm SIEM for its user-friendly centralized dashboard, strong integration capabilities, and event-filtering capabilities. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. LogRhythm SIEM has the potential to improve its SOAR and NDR features, platform stability, and MDI integration. LogRhythm users requested expanded log storage, better load balancing, and streamlined search capabilities. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: LogRhythm SIEM was generally praised for its helpful and knowledgeable support, although there have been occasional delays and knowledge problems. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: LogRhythm SIEM's setup is considered to be straightforward. However, it is more time-consuming and complex for enterprise deployments involving multiple components or vendors, and users often require assistance from professional services or LogRhythm-certified engineers. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: LogRhythm SIEM’s license typically includes all elements. However, enterprise customers may encounter complexities related to additional features and add-ons. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: LogRhythm SIEM has proven to be highly valuable, delivering a significant ROI by reducing the mean time to detect and respond. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"The log query feature has been the most valuable because it's very good. You can put your data on the cloud and run queues from Sentinel. It will do it all very fast. I love that I don't have to upload it to an Excel file and then manually look for a piece of information. Sentinel is much faster and is good for big databases."
"Sentinel enables us to ingest data from our entire ecosystem. In addition to integrating our Cisco ASA Firewall logs, we get our Palo Alto proxy logs and some on-premises data coming from our hardware devices... That is very important and is one way Sentinel is playing a wider role in our environment."
"We can use Sentinel's playbook to block threats. It covers all of the environment, giving us great visibility."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."
"We’ve got process improvement that's happened across multiple different fronts within the organization, within our IT organization based on this tool being in place."
"Microsoft Sentinel provides the capability to integrate different log sources. On top of having several data connectors in place, you can also do integration with a threat intelligence platform to enhance and enrich the data that's available. You can collect as many logs and build all the use cases."
"Its ability to work with all different sorts of log sources has been extremely valuable."
"It's very easy to create the correlation rules with LogRhythm, and there are some advanced features like SIEM and UEBA, which are also very valuable."
"The ability to drill down and pivot from an event is one of the biggest advantage the product has compared to other things that I have seen in the market."
"It allows us to automate a lot of things with a smaller team."
"Compliance reporting is another great feature of this product. It has built in reports right out of the box."
"It has centralized monitoring for our security operations. Therefore, it improves our analysts' work."
"The correlation engine is extremely valuable because it uses machine learning to process information from the central manager and identifies issues in the network."
"It's positively affected our overall rate of efficiency."
"My company implemented Wazuh because it was relatively inexpensive. They could quickly get their hands on it to check a box for some audit and compliance."
"It is a stable solution."
"Wazuh's logging features integrate seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services. There are also Wazuh agent configurations for different use cases, like vulnerability scanning, host-based intrusion detection, and file integrity monitoring."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The MITRE ATT&CK correlation is most valuable."
"The tool is stable."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The on-prem log sources still require a lot of development."
"Sentinel's reporting is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"When it comes to ingesting Azure native log sources, some of the log sources are specific to the subscription, and it is not always very clear."
"I believe one of the challenges I encountered was the absence of live training sessions, even with the option to pay for them."
"We do see continuous improvement all the time, however, I haven't got a specific feature that is lacking or not well designed."
"Microsoft should improve Sentinel, considering that from the legacy systems, it cannot collect logs."
"The dashboards can be improved. Creating dashboards is very easy, but the visualizations are not as good as Microsoft Power BI. People who are using Microsoft Power BI do not like Sentinel's dashboards."
"If we want to use more features, we have to pay more. There are multiple solutions on the cloud itself, but the pricing model package isn't consistent, which is confusing to clients."
"More help and assistance with some of the open source products, everything seems to be focused on Windows versus giving some guidance and some documentation on how to use it."
"We've tried to work with a couple of engineering department guys there. We've called them and called them but we never hear anything back."
"Better integration with different services is needed, as there are quite a few platforms that we use that don't integrate very smoothly with LogRhythm."
"I would probably look for more things to go into the web console that is currently on the fat client."
"Scalability misses the mark sometimes, especially when you have an integrated disaster recovery built into the solution."
"Only area I can think of to improve on is the proof reading and using the guides before releasing them. Out the the 20+ guides I used one had issues with wrong information in it."
"I have Windows administrators who will remove the agent when they think that that's what's fouling up their upgrade or their install or their reconfiguration, etc. The first thing they do is to turn off the antivirus, turn down the firewall, and take off anything else. They don't realize that the LogRhythm agent is just sitting there monitoring. Most antivirus products have application protection features built-in where, if I'm an admin on a box, I can't uninstall antivirus. I need to have to the antivirus admin password to do that."
"Granted, we haven't enabled the UEBA module, but we're forwarding all our proxy logs to LogRhythm and we have a really hard time pulling those proxy logs back out of LogRhythm. However, when we take LogRhythm and forward the same logs into somebody else's user-based analytics software, we get the majority of what we were missing... If we've got all our proxy logs and I go out to Google or Facebook or the like, we should be able to go in and pull that information out ten minutes later, but it's a big challenge to do that."
"Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions."
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"Wazuh needs more security and features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"A more structured approach, perhaps with modular UI components, to facilitate easier integration and navigation within the Wazuh platform for custom integrations would be beneficial."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh."
LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 38 reviews. LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiSIEM, LogRhythm Axon and Elastic Security, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our LogRhythm SIEM vs. Wazuh report.
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