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    Splunk incorporates a lot of elements that help to reduce security risks. For it to reach certain compliance, we need to have some security insight. Splunk is a very good SIEM, it’s a top solution, but the best feature is its cost of visibility. We have all the most important features to detect vulnerabilities or risks.
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    Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools.
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  4. The simplicity of the solution is the best feature.The event collector, flow collector, PCAP and SOAR are valuable.
  5. The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is. The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that.
  6. SevOne has rich API capabilities, giving us the flexibility to control what we collect and customize the collection, creation, and manipulation of now metrics as necessary.
  7. The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibilityThe company uses software called Harmony. Check Point integrates nicely, whether on an endpoint or mobile device. It integrates well with the firewall and can give me reports that I can check without going to an online portal.
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  9. The GUI is very intuitive and the solution has good integration.Technical support has always been helpful.
  10. It's very customizable, which is quite helpful. I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong.

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HAPPY BHALLA - PeerSpot reviewer
HAPPY BHALLA
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 29 2022
Dear community members,  I've been exploring Datadog vs ELK and I need your opinion about both of them in terms of performance, cost, and efficiency? Which one would you recommend?
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Aji Joseph - PeerSpot reviewer
Aji JosephIt depends on your requirement. If you are looking for a SIEM/log management… more »
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Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Rony_Sklar
Community Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
How do log management and SIEM differ? Is it necessary to have separate tools for each function or can these functions be rolled into one solution? Which products are best for SIEM, and which are better for log management? Do you have recommendations of products that effectively combine both log...
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Lindsay Mieth - PeerSpot reviewer
Lindsay MiethRony, Daniel's answer is right on the money.  There are many solutions for each… more »
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Ariel Lindenfeld
Sr. Director of Community
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Log Management Topics

Key Benefits of Log Management & Monitoring

The benefits of log management and monitoring systems include:

● Unified storage

Not only does having all logs in one place make analysis much easier, but unified storage also enhances your system security. The time between when a threat occurs and when you notice it and take action is crucial, and when you store all log information together, it speeds up this process. When your logging is centralized this also means it is standardized, which makes it easier to search for information across logs from various sources.

● Better security

Log management tools offer customizable real-time alerts, which means that in case of a security breach you can react immediately and prevent further damage from the attacker. You can adjust your monitoring settings to track a custom selection of events, which is also useful for security.

● Improved troubleshooting

One of the most common uses of event logs is for network troubleshooting.
A log management tool allows you to customize your search and analysis of large amounts of data, allowing you to more easily discover connections between events and pinpoint the source of whatever issue you are having.

● Log file parsing

Parsing is the division of data into smaller pieces of information, making it easier to store and manipulate. Similar data structures need to be recognized and then information grouped according to those structures. For example, tracking the activity of a particular user or identifying all timestamps and then gathering logs from a certain timeframe.

● Data analytics

The data your company stores contains all kinds of valuable information. Data analytics cleanses and transforms data with goals such as predicting behavior, helping to make business decisions, and providing new information. For instance, analyzing customer logs could predict that customers are more likely to make a purchase on a particular day of the week, help you decide to target your next marketing campaign toward a different type of audience, or provide you with useful new information about your customers.

Importance of Log Management in DevOps

For DevOps (the combination of software development and IT operations into a single team), automation is essential in shortening the systems development lifecycle while continuously delivering high-quality software.


Log management is useful when things are running normally, as mentioned above, to provide you with information and help you make business decisions. But logs are also your first indication when a problem is occurring. There are all kinds of issues that need to be caught, and not all of them necessarily show up in the user interface. There are bugs that waste resources, open security holes, and degrade performance, often without being obvious. Other problems can affect the user but it might be hard to trace them to their cause without the right information.

Log management is especially important for cloud-native applications because they are so dynamic and the data is so distributed. Each set of logs also generates database logs, infrastructure logs, subcomponent logs, etc., creating a multitude of potential sources for whatever issue happens to arise. There is so much raw data available that it’s virtually impossible for a human being to sort through the information and figure out what is and isn’t valuable. Statistical analysis involves a great deal of number-crunching as well as comparison with previous log data. Sophisticated software assistance is necessary in order to get insights out of that much data. Log management provides a holistic, realistic view that enables visibility, allowing you to identify trends across your company’s entire infrastructure, so that you can adapt early and prevent problems rather than waiting to solve them after they crop up.



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