Compare SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs. Sumo Logic
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"Being able to build and modify dashboards on the fly with Activeboards streamlines my analyst time because my analysts aren't doing it across spreadsheets or five different tools to try to build a timeline out themselves. They can just ingest it all, build a timeline out across all the logging, and all the different information sources in one dashboard. So, it's a huge time saver. It also has the accuracy of being able to look at all those data sources in one view. The log analysis, which would take 40 hours, we can probably get through it in about five to eight hours using Devo." "The user interface is really modern. As an end-user, there are a lot of possibilities to tailor the platform to your needs, and that can be done without needing much support from Devo. It's really flexible and modular. The UI is very clean." "One of the biggest features of the UI is that you see the actual code of what you're doing in the graphical user interface, in a little window on the side. Whatever you're doing, you see the code, what's happening. And you can really quickly switch between using the GUI and using the code. That's really useful." "Even if it's a relatively technical tool or platform, it's very intuitive and graphical. It's very appealing in terms of the user interface. The UI has a graphically interface with the raw data in a table. The table can be as big as you want it, depending on your use case. You can easily get a report combining your data, along with calculations and graphical dashboards. You don't need a lot of training, because the UI is relatively very intuitive." "The ability to have high performance, high-speed search capability is incredibly important for us. When it comes to doing security analysis, you don't want to be doing is sitting around waiting to get data back while an attacker is sitting on a network, actively attacking it. You need to be able to answer questions quickly. If I see an indicator of attack, I need to be able to rapidly pivot and find data, then analyze it and find more data to answer more questions. You need to be able to do that quickly. If I'm sitting around just waiting to get my first response, then it ends up moving too slow to keep up with the attacker. Devo's speed and performance allows us to query in real-time and keep up with what is actually happening on the network, then respond effectively to events." "The real-time analytics of security-related data are super. There are a lot of data feeds going into it and it's very quick at pulling up and correlating the data and showing you what's going on in your infrastructure. It's fast. The way that their architecture and technology works, they've really focused on the speed of query results and making sure that we can do what we need to do quickly. Devo is pulling back information in a fast fashion, based on real-time events." | "The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user." "It performs network behavior monitoring, log monitoring, and disaster recovery monitoring." "We did previously use a different solution, but SolarWinds is much better. It's easy to interact with SolarWinds. It's easy to operate, easy to configure and is generally easier compared to what we were working with before." "The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins." "The graphical user interface is very user-friendly. SolarWinds is a hybrid solution so you can use it across many platforms." "The most valuable feature is the reporting." "This tool is simple to use." "It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software." | "With this tool, we provide access to every developer team the ability to find errors, then they come to us and ask for specific help." "We can ingest logs and make reports out of them. It is a good tool which can help us monitor any issues." "It gives us a bird's eye view of what's happening from our connection's point of view." "We use it to ingest Windows domain controller logs. We use this to monitor if anyone is placed in particular administration groups that potentially shouldn't be. It helps us keep track of people." "I have no concerns about the stability of the product. I feel it handles the stress we put on it very well." "For many of our services, we use Sumo Logic to track errors and send notifications to our Slack channel, if there are issues. Then, we have our support people monitoring this, and they can react quickly." "Scalability has been good for our needs. We haven't run into any scaling issues in regards to size so far." "It provides easy visibility. I also like the shareable queries because we share a lot across groups." |
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"Their documentation could be better. They are growing quickly and need to have someone focused on tech writing to ensure that all the different updates, how to use them, and all the new features and functionality are properly documented." "The Activeboards feature is not as mature regarding the look and feel. Its functionality is mature, but the look and feel is not there. For example, if you have some data sets and are trying to get some graphics, you cannot change anything. There's just one format for the graphics. You cannot change the size of the font, the font itself, etc." "There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler." "There is room for improvement in the ability to parse different log types. The breadth of overall log parsers that exists right now is an area that they could improve. Natively, there's more that could be done by Devo then what it can and can't understand from a parsing perspective." "Devo has a lot of cloud connectors, but they need to do a little bit of work there. They've got good integrations with the public cloud, but there are a lot of cloud SaaS systems that they still need to work with on integrations, such as Salesforce and other SaaS providers where we need to get access logs." | "It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution." "Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product." "The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow." "I would like to be able to dig deeper into the visibility of events or incidents to determine whether they are malicious, such as by doing behavior analysis." "The reporting could be more robust. It can be a lot more granular and that will make it a lot more useful in comparison to how it is incorporated at the moment." "There is no correlation made between log entries, so no threat information is presented." "I would like to have a more customizable dashboard." "There are no multiple dashboards which would allow you to see information side-by-side." | "The dashboard has room for improvement, because sometimes it is a difficult to create a specific dashboard or query. This would be a nice place to correct problems." "I would like to see improvement in the user experience when configuring things, ingesting logs, and creating ports." "The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it." "If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved." "It took a bit of trial and error to get it set up correctly based on everything we had to do. In the end, we had to send everything over HTTP, which was sort of a stop-gap." "I would like better UI-driven functionality to create alerts and reports. Now, we have to understand the syntax, so it is a little difficult for someone to pick it up without using the manuals. If there was more of a graphical user interface, it would be beneficial." "It would be nice to have an improved ability to scroll through logs within a time frame. Right now, we can search for specific errors. However, if we want to look for "before and after" within a specific time frame, it's not easy using the tool. This would be an improvement." "There needs to be improvement on imported data which can be used within Sumo Logic to do more advanced queries." |
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"It's a per gigabyte cost for ingestion of data. For every gigabyte that you ingest, it's whatever you negotiated your price for. Compared to other contracts that we've had for cloud providers, it's significantly less." "I'm not involved in the financial aspect, but I think the licensing costs are similar to other solutions. If all the solutions have a similar cost, Devo provides more for the money." "We have an OEM agreement with Devo. It is very similar to the standard licensing agreement because we are charged in the same way as any other customer, e.g., we use the backroom." "We have seen ROI. We have seen cost savings in maintenance, upkeep, and support." | "We do a yearly license renewal. For a year, the solution costs roughly $500,000 USD. There are no costs beyond this yearly fee." "The pricing model would benefit from having package deals with other SolarWinds products." "Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time." "It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap." More SolarWinds Security Event Manager Pricing and Cost Advice » | "Purchasing Sumo Logic through the AWS Marketplace was a simple step." "Purchasing the solution through the AWS Marketplace is very easy." "We chose to go through the AWS Marketplace because it makes it a lot easier when we bill our customers. Rather than having to get multiple different sources of information then correlate a monthly bill for our customers, it is just included in the AWS usage charges." "The AWS Marketplace pricing is fairly reasonable for what it does. I wouldn't call it expensive, but I wouldn't call it cheap. It is pretty good." "The only limit to the scalability of the product for us is how much we are willing to pay." "The price scaling comes in a bit expensive." "Pricing has been cheaper than some of the competing tools, like Splunk." "If we went to ELK Stack, which is open source, it would have been less costly, but it would have required more development from our side." |
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Top Answer: Even if it's a relatively technical tool or platform, it's very intuitive and graphical. It's very appealing in terms of… more » Top Answer: We have an OEM agreement with Devo. It is very similar to the standard licensing agreement because we are charged in the… more » Top Answer: There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the… more » | Top Answer: It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software. Top Answer: The setup cost is not as expensive as Splunk or many other competitors. Cost is dependent on the size of the company. Top Answer: Some things on the roadmap could be improved but I understand they're working on those issues. The main area that would… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Also Known As | ||
| Logtrust | SolarWinds LEM, Solarwinds SIEM, TriGeo, Log and Event Manager | |
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| Devo | SolarWinds | Sumo Logic |
Overview  | ||
Devo, the cloud-native logging and security analytics company, empowers security and operations teams to maximize the value of all their data. Only the Devo platform delivers the powerful combination of real-time visibility, high-performance analytics, scalability, multitenancy, and low TCO crucial for monitoring and securing business operations as enterprises accelerate their shift to the cloud. | When TriGeo was acquired by SolarWinds, TriGeo SIM became known as SolarWinds Log & Event Manager. This product is a leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product and log management solution, which provides log collection, analysis, and real-time correlation. | Sumo Logic simplifies how you collect and analyze machine data so that you can gain deep visibility across your full application and infrastructure stack. With the Sumo Logic service, you can accelerate modern application delivery, monitor and troubleshoot in real time and improve your security and compliance posture. |
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See Devo in Action See how Devo allows you to free yourself from data management, and make machine data and insights accessible. | Learn more about SolarWinds Security Event Manager | Learn more about Sumo Logic |
Sample Customers | ||
| United States Air Force, Rubrik, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText | NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few. | Ooyala, Webjet, Akamai, Kaiser Permanente, Alaska Airlines, Hotel Tonight, Dollar Shave Club, Interactive Intelligence, Restoration Hardware, RingCentral, WD-40, Zillow, Sage Software, Tunein Radio, Lookout, Infor, Houzz, Estee Lauder, Brightcove, Actelion, Anki, Elance, Voxer, Cytobank, Medicom Health Interactive, Task Rabbit, Zscaler, Thred Up, Netskope, Tobi, Infoblox, Imperva, Okta, Medallia, RelateIQ, Bazaar Voice, Blurb, Guidewire, Apigee, Swipely, Progress Software, Card Spring, Ubiquiti Networks, Pager Duty, McGraw Hill, Acquia, Limelight Networks, Blucora, Scripps Networks Interactive, Orange, Medidata, 3 Share |
Top Industries | ||
Computer Software Company30% Comms Service Provider23% Financial Services Firm5% Government5% | Financial Services Firm20% Government20% Cloud Provider10% Computer Software Company10% Computer Software Company25% Comms Service Provider17% Government10% Manufacturing Company5% | Computer Software Company38% Comms Service Provider12% Government7% Media Company7% |
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Small Business40% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise43% | Small Business63% Midsize Enterprise6% Large Enterprise31% | Small Business17% Midsize Enterprise8% Large Enterprise75% |
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 11 reviews while Sumo Logic is ranked 9th in Log Management with 11 reviews. SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.6, while Sumo Logic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "Can be used across many platforms and has a user-friendly GUI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sumo Logic writes "Good log aggregation, reliable technical support and offers lots of features". SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with Splunk, LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, IBM QRadar, ManageEngine Log360 and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), whereas Sumo Logic is most compared with Datadog, Splunk, LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, Amazon CloudWatch and Rapid7 InsightIDR.
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