Devo vs SolarWinds Security Event Manager comparison

Devo and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Devo is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.3, while SolarWinds is ranked #33 with an average rating of 7.5. Devo holds a 1.2% mindshare in SIEM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Devo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

SolarWinds Security Event Manager and Devo are widely used in the security event management sector. Devo has the upper hand due to its advanced features and scalability.

Features: SolarWinds Security Event Manager is praised for its log management, real-time event correlation, and compliance reporting. Devo is valued for its scalability, advanced analytics, and integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Users of SolarWinds Security Event Manager indicate that its performance can be affected under heavy loads and often request more integration options. Devo users point to the need for a more intuitive navigation process and better initial setup support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds Security Event Manager is noted for its straightforward deployment but receives mixed feedback on customer service response times. Devo's deployment process is complex but benefits from responsive and efficient customer service.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Security Event Manager is favored for its competitive pricing and good return on investment. Devo, despite its higher cost, is considered worth the price due to its comprehensive features and high ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Devo

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

18th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (18th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (13th)

SolarWinds Security Event M...

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

33rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Devo is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Devo	1.2%
SolarWinds Security Event Manager	1.0%
Other	97.8%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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Yashokanth Partkunan

Managed Services Engineer at Loop1 Systems

Has supported client needs efficiently but requires deeper analysis features and faster support

The log analyzing capability of SolarWinds Security Event Manager should go into more depth than the current environment. More modification and enhancements are required on the dashboard side in order to make it closer to optimal performance. From observation and feedback from users, they need more functionality related to monitoring, and in-depth analyzing needs to be improved.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"When we show the people who are in charge of getting funding that we saved this number of man-hours, which correlates to this number of dollars, they're more willing to fight to get that funding for the next fiscal year."

"More than anything, we have seen ROI in the amount of time saved during investigations."

"It's a core tool for us in looking at logs, because logs are the starting point in any investigation, so leveraging Devo from start to finish in any investigation is basically what we do."

"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."

"But from a SaaS standpoint, if not best-in-breed, Devo is certainly in the top-two or top-three."

"The features I find most valuable in Devo are that it works on unstructured data."

"Because of the way Devo works, our onboarding time has shrunk by 50 percent at least."

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"The graphical user interface is very user-friendly. SolarWinds is a hybrid solution so you can use it across many platforms."

"It's extremely easy to deploy."

"It has in-depth monitoring capabilities and an easy way for setting up dashboards."

"SolarWinds is one of the products that I use, amongst many others, to fit the needs of our customers which includes their budget, size, and industry."

"We were suffering from a lack of visibility into our logs, so we implemented SolarWinds LEM."

"It will identify things in your network that you just didn't know were going on."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is intuitivity of navigation; it's easy to build rules and actions which are based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."

"SolarWinds is effective for server, network, and log monitoring. It's also good for IP address management. We also have a patch manager, but we're still working on getting that operational."

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Cons

"The overall performance of extraction could be a lot faster, but that's a common problem in this space in general. Also, the stock or default alerting and detecting options could definitely be broader and more all-encompassing. The fact that they're not is why we had to write all our own alerts."

"The Activeboards feature is not as mature regarding the look and feel."

"The tools in Devo's active ports need enhancement in their investigative capabilities."

"One improvement area for Devo could be simplifying some configuration and improving the onboarding for new analysts because it is quite complex for fresher or new analysts who are handling Devo."

"Some third-parties don't have specific API connectors built, so we had to work with Devo to get the logs and parse the data using custom parsers, rather than an out-of-the-box solution."

"It's stable but it's not extremely stable."

"From our experience, the Devo agent needs some work. They built it on top of OS Query's open-source framework. It seems like it wasn't tuned properly to handle a large volume of Windows event logs. In our experience, there would definitely be some room for improvement. A lot of SIEMs on the market have their own agent infrastructure. I think Devo's working towards that, but I think that it needs some improvement as far as keeping up with high-volume environments."

"Where Devo has room for improvement is the data ingestion and parsing. We tend to have to work with the Devo support team to bring on and ingest new sources of data."

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"I think the customization area in the tool can be considered as an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."

"We'd like more customization capabilities."

"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."

"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."

"SolarWinds should improve its correlation capabilities. The correlation does not automatically detect and reduce the events fast enough. You have to manually do a correlation report, which means the tool is not scalable in many ways."

"It takes a long time to perform a root cause analysis."

"We have automated threat detection in the Alliance Security, Antoinette. However, if these features could be further enhanced, it would simplify my work, potentially allowing me to allocate more time to address complex issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It's very competitive. That was also a primary draw for us. Some of the licensing models with solutions like Splunk and Sentinel were attractive upfront, but there were so many micro-charges and services we would've had to add on to make them what we wanted. We had to include things like SOAR and extended capabilities, whereas all those capabilities are completely included with the Devo platform. I haven't seen any additional fee."

"Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes of ingestion by volume, and it's on a 30-day average. If you go over one day, that's not a big deal as long as the average is what you expected it to be."

"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."

"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."

"Devo is definitely cheaper than Splunk. There's no doubt about that. The value from Devo is good. It's definitely more valuable to me than QRadar or LogRhythm or any of the old, traditional SIEMs."

"Devo was very cost-competitive... Devo did come with that 400 days of hot data, and that was not the case with other products."

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"It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap."

"We do a yearly license renewal. For a year, the solution costs roughly $500,000 USD. There are no costs beyond this yearly fee."

"Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time."

"The price of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is reasonable."

"The pricing model would benefit from having package deals with other SolarWinds products."

"Licensing is on devices, so if you have many, then this may be high."

"The tool is available at a good price for customers compared to other solutions in the market. I rate the product's price as an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

Pricing generally depends on the scale, data ingestion requirements, and integrations for what the enterprise monitoring needs. I have not been part of the procurement process, so I am not aware of...

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What needs improvement with Devo?

I think some features could be added to Devo. The cost is a little higher compared to other tools such as DataDog or Elasticsearch, so they could work on reducing costs. Additionally, while the sup...

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What is your primary use case for Devo?

My main use case for Devo is that it serves as a primary tool for centralized logging solutions, mainly for threat investigation and alert monitoring. It helps us with security and analytic analyti...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Security Event Manager ?

The tool is available at a good price for customers compared to other solutions in the market. I rate the product's price as an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Security Event Manager ?

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Security Event Manager ?

I work with all SolarWinds products mostly, including Network Configuration Manager and NPM. I am a reseller. I usually recommend SolarWinds products for Loop1. It's for the bigger ones; we are the...

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SolarWinds LEM, Solarwinds SIEM, TriGeo, Log and Event Manager

Overview

Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

Devo

SolarWinds Security Event Manager is recognized for its ease of use, offering efficient log monitoring and a user-friendly interface. The tool supports a range of monitoring functions and provides strong security capabilities across platform configurations.

Designed for comprehensive log analysis and security event monitoring, SolarWinds Security Event Manager provides robust reporting, timely alerts, and supports file integrity monitoring. Entities use it to ensure compliance, monitor network activities, and prevent threats such as ransomware. Integration and setup are straightforward, enhancing its flexibility for centralized log collection and analysis. While the tool is effective, improvements are needed in performance scaling, interface updates from Flash, and enhanced customization and reporting options.

What are the key features of SolarWinds Security Event Manager?

Log Monitoring: Tracks and analyzes log files for security events.
File Integrity Monitoring: Detects unauthorized changes in files.
Reporting and Alerts: Provides extensive reporting with timely security alerts.
Compliance Maintenance: Assists in maintaining compliance with audit standards.
User-Friendly Interface: Features intuitive navigation and versatile integration capabilities.

What benefits should users consider when evaluating SolarWinds Security Event Manager?

Ease of Use: Intuitive setup and navigation simplify user experience.
Security Enhancements: Strong monitoring helps detect and prevent ransomware threats.
Compliance Support: Ensures compliance with audit requirements, facilitating regulatory adherence.
Integration: Seamlessly connects with other tools for centralized data management.

Industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government often implement SolarWinds Security Event Manager to monitor sensitive information, ensure adherence to regulatory compliance, and manage network security efficiently. The tool's ability to analyze logs and prevent threats makes it valuable for businesses needing robust security event management.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel

NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few.

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