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We performed a comparison between Snare and syslog-ng 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Snare vs. syslog-ng Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value.""The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency.""Snare has good agents, especially for Windows."

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"Syslog-ng has a separate config file in addition to the core configuration.""Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being.""For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior.""Syslog-ng provides easy access to all my logs. It helps me show managers and other clients precisely where an incident occurred. I also like it because you can integrate syslog-ng with multiple solutions to allow real-time monitoring.""The ability to extract and store the logs is the most valuable feature of syslog-ng."

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Cons
"Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare.""Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit.""The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet."

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"There is room for improvement in terms of observability.""Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being.""It's hard to find people who know how to use syslog-ng. I often find problems with configurations, and solutions aren't integrated correctly with syslog-ng. For example, there might be data with extra decimals, or the collector agents are incorrectly named. It isn't a problem with the solution; it's a lack of professionals.""There is always the potential for additional integration and protocol extensions.""The filtering has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Snare has reasonable pricing."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate Snare's pricing a four out of ten."
  • "Snare is a cheap solution because a lot of customers are using it."
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  • "Syslog-ng is a free open-source solution."
  • "Syslog-ng is open-source."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency.
    Top Answer:Snare is a cheap solution because a lot of customers are using it.
    Top Answer:Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare.
    Top Answer:For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior.
    Top Answer:The pricing is in the middle. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with one being expensive and ten being cheap.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in terms of observability. Additionally, a possible new feature could be Kafka integration.
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    Overview

    Snare customers consistently tell us that as the financial and reputational consequences of data breaches, cyber threats like malware and ransomware and the constant risks from insider threats increase that they have urgent and ongoing requirements for maintaining regulatory compliance, auditing and managing cyber threat detection and response. They also tell us that existing solutions like SIEM are often complex to implement and maintain, require specialised technical resources or are increasingly unaffordable or variable in their pricing. As a result of these increased requirements Prophecy International has created the Snare product suite.

    Compliance requirements can include any number of regulatory mandates including PCI-DSS, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, NERC, GDPR and more. This makes Snare a high value solution for companies in the Government, Defence and Military sectors, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Retail, Health, Energy, Oil & Gas markets.

    Snare is a complete suite of Centralised Log Management (CLM), Security Analytics and SIEM tools.

    Created by ex military personnel for military use it offers the highest level of security.

    Designed to work as part of your security ecosystem Snare also integrates with most other SIEMs including SPLUNK, QRadar, ARCSight and many more. With over 3,000 customers worldwide using Snare for compliance, auditing and threat response, Snare is the name you can trust.

    From Enterprise Agents for Windows, Unix, Linux, OSX, Flat files and Databases to a complete forensics and long term log storage platform, agent management console, multipoint log reflector, advanced log analytics and next gen SIEM capability. Either hosted or on prem with both Opex and Capex pricing models, Snare is a one stop shop for CLM and SIEM. Snare product suite is broadly split into two areas:

    • Centralised Log Management and Snare Analytics

    Centralised Log Management incorporates and 4 core technologies

    • Snare Enterprise Agents
    • Snare Reflector
    • Snare Agent Management Console
    • Snare Central Service

    Snare Analytics incorporates another 4 core technologies

    • Enhanced Snare Central Server incorporating Analytics
    • Data Ingestion Technologies (via our Adaptors)
    • Dashboards and Visualisations including custom KPI engine
    • Runbook – enabling SOAR

    These products can be bought independently or combined into a compete solution. You can also “mix and match” with your current security technologies ensuring that you can leverage your existing investments.

    Optimizing SIEM
    syslog-ng is the log management solution that improves the performance of your SIEM solution by reducing the amount and improving the quality of data feeding your SIEM.

    Rapid search and troubleshooting
    With syslog-ng Store Box, you can find the answer. Search billions of logs in seconds using full text queries with Boolean operators to pinpoint critical logs.

    Meeting compliance requirements
    syslog-ng Store Box provides secure, tamper-proof storage and custom reporting to demonstrate compliance.

    Big data ingestion
    syslog-ng can deliver data from a wide variety of sources to Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Kafka as well as many others.

    Universal log collection and routing
    syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management.

    Secure data archive
    syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.

    Sample Customers
    Military, Defence and Security Agencies, Banking Finance and Insurance companies, Retail, Health and Utilities.
    Tecnocom, University of Victoria, University of Exeter, Datapath
    Top Industries
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    Government15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise73%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    Snare vs. syslog-ng
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Snare vs. syslog-ng and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Snare is ranked 41st in Log Management with 3 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 17th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Snare is rated 8.0, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Snare is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM, Elastic Security and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki, Logstash and IBM Security QRadar. See our Snare vs. syslog-ng report.

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