CrowdStrike Observability vs USM Anywhere comparison

CrowdStrike and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Log Management category. CrowdStrike is ranked #41 with an average rating of 8.0, while LevelBlue is ranked #44 with an average rating of 7.3. CrowdStrike holds a 0.5% mindshare in Log Management, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CrowdStrike users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

CrowdStrike Observability

Read 3 CrowdStrike Observability reviews

789 Views
727 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

USM Anywhere

Read 115 USM Anywhere reviews

1,261 Views
864 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

CrowdStrike Observability

USM Anywhere

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CrowdStrike Observability and USM Anywhere 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 CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere Report (Updated: April 2025).

Buyer's Guide

CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere

April 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 851,471 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

CrowdStrike Observability

Ranking in Log Management

41st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Log Management

44th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (30th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (51st), Compliance Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of CrowdStrike Observability is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.4%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management

Featured Reviews

ManelAlvarez

Technical engineer at Devoteam Management Consulting

Protection improves through superior global visibility and robust cloud integration

CrowdStrike Observability is especially useful when using a multi-cloud environment. Although it is expensive, the protection level it provides justifies the price. For users on Google Cloud, I prefer using Google's GTI technology. Overall, I would rate CrowdStrike Observability as nine out of ten. I rate the overall solution as nine.

Read full review

Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I find the most effective feature of CrowdStrike Observability to be its cloud vision and attack surface vision, which enhance network traffic analysis."

"The intelligence database provided by CrowdStrike is very impressive."

"The log aggregation and correlation of data are notable features that enhance our operations."

"The price is worth it."

"The intelligence database provided by CrowdStrike is very impressive."

"It brought our logs into one place for review and set up alarms based on changes we were missing due to lack of having one place for everything to go."

"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers."

"The asset management functionality (active and passive scans) is also really important. You can't protect what you do not know about, so having an inventory of all your devices and software is critical to a security management program."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."

"AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources."

"Allowed us to help our customers satisfy compliance needs around logging and monitoring."

"This is a USM, so being able to get all the features under one roof makes it a good product with good new features."

More USM Anywhere pros

Cons

"For reporting or log management, having a longer duration for backup without needing to purchase a paid subscription would be beneficial."

"The customer service is not satisfactory for me. The support is only available in English, and my users in LATAM regions such as Peru and Colombia require local language support, which is not currently provided."

"Integration with Huawei should be more straightforward."

"For reporting or log management, having a longer duration for backup without needing to purchase a paid subscription would be beneficial. Currently, there is a default ninety-day backup period."

"AlienVault cannot automatically respond to threats like other SIEM solutions, such as Sentinel and LogRhythm. Most of our clients are far away, so it's often challenging to handle alerts when they come up on our dashboard."

"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."

"There is room for improvement in Log parsing."

"The one thing I continue to dislike about the USM is the limitation on reports."

"USM Anywhere relies a lot on the community putting the data in. Often, you'll right-click on the attack, but nothing will be found. That's a weakness of it."

"AlienVault must improve their correlation feature. Some of the events do not match with the correlation rules and some of the correlation events are false-positive."

"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."

"Source material on the forums to be more up-to-date with the changes happening within the product. Forums being out-of-date with information due to the changes makes troubleshooting a little more difficult - specific to the HIDS agents."

More USM Anywhere cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available

"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."

"Its price is much lower than McAfee ESM."

"It allows you to do a lot with a small price tag... The pricing is the best on the market."

"It's saved security costs."

"The pricing is a good value. The key thing is that for the new product, the licensing of it, is subscription-based and it's based on data. Clients need to be really careful when thinking about that, because odds are they're going to need to put a lot more data into it than what they initially estimate, which is going to drive their subscription costs up."

"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."

"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."

"We checked out several competitors. For what it can do and the cost, it was the best option!"

More USM Anywhere pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Log Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

851,471 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Observability?

CrowdStrike Observability could improve in terms of understanding the functionality of different modules. The complexity of having multiple modules such as vulnerability management and identity man...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for CrowdStrike Observability?

I have been using CrowdStrike Observability for the past two months with a focus on the cloud environment, specifically integrating with Google Cloud. We are currently utilizing it for detection pu...

See all answers

What advice do you have for others considering CrowdStrike Observability?

See all answers

What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

See all answers

What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?

There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.

See all answers

Comparisons

Datadog vs CrowdStrike Observability

Compared 25% of the time

Wazuh vs CrowdStrike Observability

Compared 22% of the time

Lumen Security Log Monitoring vs CrowdStrike Observability

Compared 12% of the time

ManageEngine Log360 vs CrowdStrike Observability

Compared 11% of the time

Amazon CloudWatch vs CrowdStrike Observability

Compared 9% of the time

More CrowdStrike Observability Competitors

AlienVault OSSIM vs USM Anywhere

Compared 26% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs USM Anywhere

Compared 13% of the time

Wazuh vs USM Anywhere

Compared 11% of the time

Rapid7 InsightIDR vs USM Anywhere

Compared 10% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs USM Anywhere

Compared 8% of the time

More USM Anywhere Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Log Management

April 2025

Download CrowdStrike Observability product report

Buyer's Guide

USM Anywhere

April 2025

Download USM Anywhere product report

Also Known As

No data available

AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

Overview

Unify security, log management, and observability with the new CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale module, the next evolution of Humio, including the all-new managed Falcon Complete LogScale service.

CrowdStrike

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

LevelBlue

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

Buyer's Guide

CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere

April 2025

Free Report: CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere

Find out what your peers are saying about CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere and other solutions. Updated: April 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

851,471 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our CrowdStrike Observability vs. USM Anywhere report.

See our list of best Log Management vendors.

We monitor all Log Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.