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    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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    out of 95 in Log Management
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    5
    Average Words per Review
    378
    Rating
    8.6
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    Overview

    Cribl Stream is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that gives you the flexibility to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize, and route data from any source to any destination within your existing data infrastructure. You’ll finally achieve full control of your data, empowering you to choose how to treat your data to best support your business goals.

    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.

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    Tecnocom, University of Victoria, University of Exeter, Datapath
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government10%
    Legal Firm7%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Cribl Stream is ranked 55th in Log Management while syslog-ng is ranked 17th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Cribl Stream is rated 0.0, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. 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". Cribl Stream is most compared with Logstash, Elastic Stack, Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, Grafana Loki and Mezmo, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki, Logstash and Datadog.

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