IBM Security QRadar Stability
I rate IBM Security QRadar ten out of ten for stability.
View full review »The tool is stable. SIEM is important for every company. It is needed if any attack occurs.
View full review »We have not had any stability issues with QRadar.
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IBM Security QRadar
March 2024
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We've had issues with the stability of IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics. We had bugs once or twice, but they were quickly solved by IBM's support team. The bugs weren't really something that stopped us from working. We managed to solve them rather quickly.
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reviewer1886673
Director of Incident Response at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The stability's great. The solution is robust. It's trusted. Depending on how you have it deployed if it's a standalone appliance or it's high availability paired so that you have redundancy, the solution is reliable.
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SaiKrishna2
Cyber Security Analyst at Diyar United Company
The solution is stable. It's crucial for maintaining the company's security.
I rate its stability as nine out of ten.
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reviewer1974018
Technical Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable and easy to use if deployed well.
On occasion, you might get an error when running advanced analytics but reboots are not needed.
View full review »It is stable. There are no incidents when SIEM completely stopped.
View full review »We had some bugs and we had to handle them. They impacted our deployment timeline, but all of the bugs that we had were quickly solved by engineers from IBM. Currently, we are not fully satisfied with the stability, but the support from IBM is very good and they can solve our problems very, very quickly.
View full review »I would give stability an eight on a scale of one to ten.
View full review »QRadar's performance has room for improvement because it cannot handle the volume. I need massive amounts of logs from various devices in our existing network architecture. IBM needs to improve QRadar's capacity to handle more logs.
Usually, disk space is the issue. When it runs out of space, we need to stop logs from different network devices, especially the firewall, before it starts working.
View full review »The stability of this solution is rock solid, a ten out of ten.
View full review »I'm not sure about the stability just yet. We've observed a few issues and we raised a supporting ticket for it.
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Berik Sultanbekov
CS engineer at AYACOM
It is stable.
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reviewer1409433
Cyber Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
What they have claimed is 99.5% uptime. However, I'm not very sure whether there's an implementation problem or not. Sometimes the system gets hung and then we have to restart everything from the scratch. You have got these multi printing options, though not functionally. Sometimes it gets some jitters there. Sometimes there are cases where we are finding it very difficult to get into the system as there can be three or four people logging into the same platform at the same time and sometimes the reduces the speed a lot.
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reviewer1789347
Manager SOC at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
View full review »Overall I'd say the stability is pretty good. I have noticed some issues with the patch and updates recently, especially version 72A. There have been some problems where a patch would come out and a few days later another patch would have to come out to fix issues that weren't encountered so that's caused some issues for us.
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reviewer2303580
Head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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Karim Bondok
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
QRadar is built around Red Hat Linux, which is highly robust.
View full review »It is very stable. As long as you have the proper connectivity availability, it is pretty stable.
View full review »The product is very stable.
View full review »The stability is good.
View full review »We've had no issues with its stability or scalability.
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CesarMolloja Rodas
Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics has been stable, and my team has made no significant changes since 2015. The team is working on utilizing it most efficiently.
View full review »I rate the stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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MUHAMMAD WAQAS
Relationship Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability of the product has been great. It's from 80% to 90% is stable. There are very few bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. If you do run into issues, technical support is quite helpful.
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reviewer993816
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
QRadar is very stable in our deployment. I'm not aware of other customer deployments.
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reviewer1106787
Works
The stability is good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It is absolutely stable. It depends upon how the implementation has been done. We definitely have the skills to do this kind of implementation. We ensure that a customer's environment is absolutely protected.
View full review »The product is very stable. I don't have any issues with stability at all.
View full review »It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. I'd rate the stability eight out of ten.
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reviewer1846212
IM Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of IBM Qradar is good.
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reviewer1846212
IM Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is a stable solution.
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Ashok KumarLokhande
Cyber Security Consultant at raf
IBM QRadar is quite stable.
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reviewer1584831
Solution Architect Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is quite stable.
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Yegor Skrynnyk
IT Specialist​ at IT Specialist LLC
I give the stability a seven out of ten. There is sometimes unexpected behavior within the logic of the playbook engine and features.
View full review »IBM QRadar is a stable solution.
View full review »IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is stable most of the time. However, it works on the client-side which requires a lot of system resources, such as RAM. In some cases, if the work is high, the stability deteriorates, but mainly it is stable.
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Jentle Mathew
Sr.Network Engineer at NTT Security
The solution is reliable.
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reviewer1518060
SOC Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Every solution has some bugs and other issues but for the most part, this solution is stable.
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ChrisMcAndrew
Security Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It is generally very stable. We've had odd little breakages, however, generally, nothing major has gone wrong. The performance is good. It's a reliable product.
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DK Shrivastava
Vice President & Country Head at Inspira Enterprise
QRadar UBA is quite stable.
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Ahmed ElSanhoury
Head Of Sales at Cascade Solutions Inc
IBM QRadar is a stable product.
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chieftec1015569
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1609413
Senior IT Technical Support at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For stability, I'm not a customer who's using it on daily basis, however, from feedback that I'm getting from the customers who are attending to the solution, I've heard that this solution is stable. That's why it's in the leader area in Gartner. If you compare it to others in Gartner, it shows how their product is actually efficient. Whether I get QRadar, whether it's Splunk, whether it's LogRhythm, all of those products as a SIM are very good at that point. They're all quite reliable.
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reviewer1477878
Director of Information Security at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Stability is moderate.
We have 15 people using this solution in our organization. Their positions vary from Network Engineers, Security Engineers, and Security Analysts.
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QRadar677
B.T. Güvenlik Yöneticisi at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We have not experienced any bugs or vulnerabilities, so the stability seems to be fine.
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reviewer774660
Manager-Cloud Security Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good. There is not a single point lacking in terms of stability. And, I have never faced technical issues.
View full review »It works well. We've been using it for a year now. It's helped us greatly to cut down on the time it takes to research a problem or to actually find the problem.
View full review »The stability is good. I never got a complaint, but sometimes we have difficulty in configuring new applications. Since it is going into the cloud, we have a big challenge how we are going to monitor those applications which are sitting in Bluemix.
View full review »The product is very stable.
View full review »We have not had stability issues.
View full review »For us, it's kind of wonky because we always try to be bleeding edge and always try to do updates. So, we're always pushing the system to its limit. It's pretty stable, but we always have open issues with it, with IBM.
View full review »The solution has never crashed or failed, it's stable.
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reviewer1501230
Head of IT Security, Governance and Compliance at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
This is a very stable product.
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reviewer1318914
Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
I wouldn't describe the solution as stable.
It was really buggy. Like other app integrations, it wasn't straightforward. It was pretty clunky. We tried to integrate Qualys with it and it wasn't effective. To integrate anything took quite a bit of time and energy. It wasn't easy. When it did, it didn't work properly. It wasn't really pulling in the data correctly.
We experienced some memory usage issues with a user behavior app.
View full review »We are the largest user of QRadar, so the stability is average. There are several vulnerabilities that IBM is working with us on. They don't have a test environment big enough to imitate the stress we put on it. Stability is probably OK for the normal customers, but we break everybody's apps just because of our size.
View full review »I feel that some of the stability issues are attributed to our network. However, too many issues existed with the product and too many more appeared as they tried to fix different issues.
View full review »It's been stable. Stability hasn't been a problem, as long as you have enough capacity. It's all about sizing it right for the size of your environment. We do drop packets every day. So depending on how our log volume increases or reduces, you see the impact on the packets being dropped.
View full review »We have not faced any issues in terms of stability.
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VijayKumar4
AVP - Cyber Secuirty at Cloud4C Services
No doubt about it, the solution is extremely stable.
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SachinGupta1
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
IBM QRadar is a very stable product.
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Syed Hammad Shafiq
Information Security Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is good until you upgrade to a new version. You have to properly shut down services when you are doing some maintenance activities every three to four months. There might be some problems that you do not expect. We have had some complaints from users regarding operation.
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chieftec1015569
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This is a very stable solution and I don't think that we have lost it once. This is good compared to our other system that had gone down three times.
View full review »We did encounter stability issues as IBM’s patches are not stable at all. Every time they release a new patch, it breaks certain components immediately and the worst part is, it breaks certain components over a period of 90 days.
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reviewer1026825
Certified AIX I.T Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
QRadar is stable.
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reviewer1349439
IT Security Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
QRadar's stability is great because it is always live and is always catching and monitoring all the information that we need. When we need information, it is here in QRadar.
In terms of maintenance of QRadar, my internet is secured by IBM.
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reviewer916710
Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable. We have not faced interruptions in the past four and a half years.
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NetworkS3978
Network Security Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
We run 65 servers with just two people: an engineering person and me.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
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JohnTamakloe
Solution Architect at Ostec
The solution is stable. I'd rate it five out of five. It's very reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »I have found IBM QRadar to be stable.
View full review »It is very stable. I've seen this product grow since it started. It initially started with another company and then it was bought by IBM.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In the first year I used it, there were a few stability problems. In the previous three years, there haven’t been any stability issues.
View full review »Sometimes, after a new release, we had issues with stability or some bug showed up. It is strongly recommended to have a DEV or UAT environment to test the release before going into production.
View full review »We're just the earlier adoptors of this tool for now. We are in the pharma industry, so we have started doing pilots across different functions in the organization. It will take us around one or two years to come to a conclusion in regards to the stability of this solution.
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Gian Michele Roletto
SOC Manager at Nais Srl
IBM QRadar is a stable solution.
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reviewer1590123
Senior Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »The solution is very stable. It's reliable. You don't need to worry about bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's pretty much a set and forget kind of setup.
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Andris Soroka
Co-owner and CEO at Data Security Solutions
If the engineers are missing some technical knowledge from IBM documentation, then it might get interesting, but you can always rollback. Usually, when you are implementing innovations, as a system integrator, you usually do less on the test environment, and then you check if this works. If bigger organizations and customers want to do it by themselves, they should really stick to this approach and use a lot of material, community pages, and channels.
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Francis Chapet
Ingénieur d'étude R&D at DOGA
The solution is quite stable. It doesn't have bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash on me or freeze. It's reliable.
View full review »In terms of stability, in my current company, QRadar is working fine. But in my previous organization that was using QRadar, we experienced some QRadar failures. There were two or three times the data was wiped out instead of transferring to EGA and we had to restart QRadar from scratch and all the data was lost. It happened a lot. Maybe it was due to lack of management since it was a new company.
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reviewer810204
Lead Security Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have definitely not encountered any issues with stability.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In the first year I used it, there were a few stability problems. In the previous three years, there haven’t been any major stability issues.
View full review »The stability is not bad. We had some problems with patching, but there are problems with all software.
We had the problem when we patched from Version 7.2 to Version 7.2.8. There were some problems with the authentication tokens. It didn’t go so well, but we solved it with the help of technical support and it was very quick. I think that's cool.
Sometimes, we have a problem with support. We are also using QVM (IBM Security QRadar Vulnerability Manager) and I think it is a little bit buggy for now. We have a lot of problems with it. It should be better.
View full review »We did have stability issues. Some errors were generated when applying updates.
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reviewer1488321
Managed Security Product at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a stable product.
It takes two to three people for its management, but it purely depends on the scope of the security operations center, the SOC.
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BALA
Program Manager at a tech services company
The stability of this product is pretty good.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
If you're running the latest version under recommended specifications, it is very stable thus far.
View full review »The stability is good.
View full review »We haven't encountered any issues with stability.
View full review »The environment is pretty stable. We just upgraded about a year ago, so it's pretty robust in the environment that we have. It's working really well for us, we've been using it for about 10+ years. We bought it before IBM purchased them.
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Nimesh Bhatia
IT Security and Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Stability is very good. It's better than it used to be.
View full review »We have not had any stability or scalability issues. We're a little concerned about the latest version and the fact that it cannot be upgraded, that it requires a clean install.
View full review »I rate the stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is a stable solution.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
The solution is very stable.
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Johan Wibisono
Solution Security Architect at PT. Sinergy Informasi Pratama
I think that QRadar is stable, but I've never worked with other solutions in this area and I have nothing to compare it to. It has dedicated machines and offers great performance.
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Mathieu Dorckel
Cybersecurity Engineer Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Sometimes, but not from the system itself, but from the amount of logs it has received.
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MazenHindawi
Network and Security Technical Team Leader at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees
The stability of the solution is great.
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reviewer1136397
Team Lead - Information Security at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It's a stable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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reviewer1520922
Regional Director, Customer Success (GTM Solutions & Services) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I find the solution reliable.
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Marketdir9846
Marketing Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 1-10 employees
No stability issues yet.
View full review »Stability is good, but the investigation system should be better.
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SuhailWagle
Cyber Security Consultant at Gulf Business Machines
The stability of the solution is very good. It's reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's been good.
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Dmytro Petrashchuk
Chief Technical Officer at IT Specialist LLC
It's quite stable.
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reviewer1365630
Deputy General Manager - Network Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have not seen any issues with the stability of the solution either.
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Md Nafiz Mahmood
Solution Manager at ZZTL
It is very stable.
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Cyberspec67
Cyber Security Specialist at AEC
It's very stable.
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Srijan-Sivakumar
Director of Market Enabling Solutions at Raksha Technologies Pvt Ltd
The stability is good.
View full review »IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is stable.
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reviewer1168407
Sr. Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The stability is excellent.
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WiseCat
Enterprise Architect, CISSP at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not experienced any issues with stability.
View full review »It's very robust. If it fails it does not really harm the network. It just gathers information and that's the important part. It has not failed, it's been working since day one so there is no problem. As long as the server that you install it on is working fine, it's very reliable. It's very stable.
View full review »There were no stability issues with QRadar. We've had a couple of stability issues with all the applications that I run. I don't want to mention names.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
View full review »The stability of this product is pretty good. It's helping us a lot and they keep on adding new features. Thus, as a platform, it's quite stable.
View full review »It will slow down, when there are too many people doing a search at the same time, but that depends on your hardware and design.
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The causes of stability issues are usually not QRadar, but of misconfigured devices/log sources (for example, sending debug events to QRadar that results in millions of events in a short period of time). However, if a deployment is done correctly, QRadar stays stable.
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I am not currently responsible for this product. However, I did not hear any complaints from the other people in terms of its stability.
View full review »We never experienced any stability issues. The only problem that I had was related to the hardware and the high availability worked as expected.
Something to take into account is the IBM support; they really know their business and how to fix problems. I had the opportunity to talk with L2 Managers in the US, who told me that IBM is investing in research, documentation and training for all the people working with it. This is a very interesting thing to have in mind, when choosing this platform.
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reviewer1665357
IT Security Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The stability is very good. Its operation is very good.
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reviewer1388217
Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
In terms of stability, it is very stable. In the almost two years in the environment, there has been only one issue. It was a disc failure and that was replaced within a week by the OEM.
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Shaikh Jamal Uddin
Cybersecurity Architecture and Technology Lead at Appxone
No issues.
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Onyegbule Uche
Technical Consultant at activedge
It's very stable. We never need much help with that.
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D.M.Hashim-Ul- Alom
Senior Server Security Engineer
IBM QRadar is stable and scalable.
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Sebastian Osterc
Member at CIFAL Argentina
Stability is great.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
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reviewer594315
Assistant IT Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar is a stable solution, but it could be more stable.
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reviewer1610610
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1593615
AVP - Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I have not had any complaints from my clients about the stability of the solution.
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Luis Yndigoyen
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
No stability issues.
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Olakanmi Oluwole
Cyber threat Intelligence Manager at CyberLab Africa
The stability of the solution could improve.
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reviewer1348482
Practice Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
IBM QRadar is a stable solution.
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Larbi Belmiloud
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's very stable. The only issue we can report about is a system issue. When the partition is full, the whole system shuts down. If some partition of the logs is not in QRadar, maybe we can't find any solution to do this from QRadar.
In fact, we observed that sometimes the systems are going down when a partition is up to 90%. This issue is related to Red Hat, also we observed this issue relating to logs TOMCAT, the /var/log be up to 100% quickly.
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Ambuj Bhalla
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
There were no stability issues.
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reviewer1022949
Team Lead & Principal Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think it's a very stable product that provides much more visibility than the other product.
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Joao Manso
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
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AndyChan3
General manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. We have had the occasional bug or other issue but once we report it to IBM, they give us a resolution quite quickly.
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ErayKaraoglu
Network & Cyber Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable, but the hard drive sometimes does not have logs.
View full review »It has good stability. If there is an issue, we restart the box.
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Douglas Concepcion
Security Solutions Architect at Micro Strategies
It is a very stable product. I cannot say anything bad about it.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
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Oscar Orellana
Founder at a university with 11-50 employees
Its stability is very good. I don't have any problem with it.
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reviewer1342335
Principal Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
QRadar is quite stable, but I am not sure about the volume. There is no clear volume. If I were to cross to an enterprise and the stability is not available then it would be a problem.
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Dameer Siddiqui
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
IBM QRadar is very stable. It doesn't have many errors.
View full review »On a scale of 100, it is 95% stable.
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Oscar Orellana
Founder at a university with 11-50 employees
It's a stable solution.
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Kashif-Jamil
CEO at Xcelliti
This is a very stable product.
View full review »I didn't find any issues with stability of the product.
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reviewer1385793
Queretaro at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This is a very stable product.
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MohamedAfeilal
General Manager at New System Engineering
This is a very stable solution.
View full review »The system is quite stable, so far we haven't had any problems. Although the initial supply of the appliance was a bit faulty, the processor kept on failing. We were within the warranty so they supplied new ones. After loading logs, the system is very stable and nothing to worry about.
View full review »My impressions of the stability is that it is good.
View full review »I find it to be highly stable. It's one of those situations where you need to have high availability. We have a high availability implementation, so we never lose an environment.
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reviewer1489146
Professional Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
QRadar is a very stable product.
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March 2024
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