Devo vs Sumo Logic Security comparison

Devo and Sumo Logic are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Devo is ranked #28 with an average rating of 8.5, while Sumo Logic is ranked #25 with an average rating of 7.8. Devo holds a 1.1% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Sumo Logic’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Devo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Sumo Logic users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

After comparing Sumo Logic Security and Devo, they fall under the category of security analytics solutions. Devo appears to have the upper hand due to its robust features and better user satisfaction.

Features: Sumo Logic Security is noted for its integration capabilities, providing seamless connections with other tools. It features a user-friendly interface and competitive pricing, making it accessible for a broader audience. Devo offers advanced analytics, comprehensive data management, and extensive analytical capabilities, which gives it an edge in features.

Room for Improvement: Sumo Logic Security needs more customizable dashboards, enhanced alerting mechanisms, and improvements in response time. Devo users suggest better initial setup documentation, more intuitive navigation, and streamlined user management. Both need specific functionality enhancements based on user feedback.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sumo Logic Security has a straightforward deployment process and strong customer support, but some users find it time-consuming. Devo provides faster deployment and proactive customer service, leading in this aspect by offering a quicker and more supportive experience.

Pricing and ROI: Sumo Logic Security is cost-effective and delivers good ROI with its pricing structure. Devo, perceived as more expensive, justifies the higher costs through superior features and capabilities, leading to better returns according to user feedback.

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Categories and Ranking

Devo

Ranking in Log Management

27th

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

28th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (6th), AIOps (15th)

Sumo Logic Security

Ranking in Log Management

24th

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

25th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Devo is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Security is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn

CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Has cloud-first architecture with SIEM technology to run security operations

When it comes to scale, they're architected quite well. They handle some of the biggest customers globally, with significant throughput on their platform, managing thousands of customers. One of the most impressive aspects of Devo is its customer community. A large majority, over 80 percent of their customers, actively participate on a Devo-specific community page. They're contributing to product development and support, events, and user group information, helping each other out. This high level of engagement is rare and demonstrates both the loyalty of their customer base and the quality of their product. They offer a range of small, medium, and large options to cater to everyone. I sold Devo products while working with them, focusing on enterprise solutions. However, as a small reseller, my customers were typically smaller businesses. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten.

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WilsonAitan

Deputy Country Manager at PT Securite Asia Indonesia (ABP Securite)

Offers a single dashboard with customizable features and a cost-effective pricing structure

Sumo Logic Security offers a single dashboard and customization, which are the most valuable features. Additionally, it has a cost-effective structure because it is based on data storage and the number of scans, rather than uploading data. This cost model impacts the customers positively by offering a more straightforward pricing structure.

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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

"Scalability is one of Devo's strengths."

"The thing that Devo does better than other solutions is to give me the ability to write queries that look at multiple data sources and run fast. Most SIEMs don't do that. And I can do that by creating entity-based queries. Let's say I have a table which has Okta, a table which has G Suite, a table which has endpoint telemetry, and I have a table which has DNS telemetry. I can write a query that says, 'Join all these things together on IP, and where the IP matches in all these tables, return to me that subset of data, within these time windows.' I can break it down that way."

"Those 400 days of hot data mean that people can look for trends and at what happened in the past. And they can not only do so from a security point of view, but even for operational use cases. In the past, our operational norm was to keep live data for only 30 days. Our users were constantly asking us for at least 90 days, and we really couldn't even do that. That's one reason that having 400 days of live data is pretty huge. As our users start to use it and adopt this system, we expect people to be able to do those long-term analytics."

"Even if it's a relatively technical tool or platform, it's very intuitive and graphical. It's very appealing in terms of the user interface. The UI has a graphically interface with the raw data in a table. The table can be as big as you want it, depending on your use case. You can easily get a report combining your data, along with calculations and graphical dashboards. You don't need a lot of training, because the UI is relatively very intuitive."

"In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time."

"The strength of Devo is not only in that it is pretty intuitive, but it gives you the flexibility and creativity to merge feeds. The prime examples would be using the synthesis or union tables that give you phenomenal capabilities... The ability to use a synthesis or union table to combine all those feeds and make heads or tails of what's going on, and link it to go down a thread, is functionality that I hadn't seen before."

"One of the biggest features of the UI is that you see the actual code of what you're doing in the graphical user interface, in a little window on the side. Whatever you're doing, you see the code, what's happening. And you can really quickly switch between using the GUI and using the code. That's really useful."

"It's very, very versatile."

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"For many of our services, we use Sumo Logic to track errors and send notifications to our Slack channel, if there are issues. Then, we have our support people monitoring this, and they can react quickly."

"The Log Analytics platform is the most effective. If we cannot find the data in other tools, like email security or NDR, we can fetch those logs in the Log Analytics platform of Sumo Logic."

"Sumo Logic Security offers a single dashboard and customization, which are the most valuable features."

"The solution is quite stable."

"We use it to ingest Windows domain controller logs. We use this to monitor if anyone is placed in particular administration groups that potentially shouldn't be. It helps us keep track of people."

"Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues."

"Sumo Logic is an easy solution to use. You can set it up very quickly, and it includes a lot of training videos."

"It provides easy visibility. I also like the shareable queries because we share a lot across groups."

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Cons

"Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design."

"There's room for improvement within the GUI. There is also some room for improvement within the native parsers they support. But I can say that about pretty much any solution in this space."

"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."

"There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness."

"Technical support could be better."

"There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler."

"There is room for improvement in the ability to parse different log types. I would go as far as to say the product is deficient in its ability to parse multiple, different log types, including logs from major vendors that are supported by competitors. Additionally, the time that it takes to turn around a supported parser for customers and common log source types, which are generally accepted standards in the industry, is not acceptable. This has impacted customer onboarding and customer relationships for us on multiple fronts."

"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."

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"The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it."

"We would like to have some type of predefined setup for the logs, making the setup easier by default."

"In my opinion, this solution has a steep learning curve and requires practice if users to be able to use this tool very efficiently."

"I would like to see improvement in the user experience when configuring things, ingesting logs, and creating ports."

"I don't recommend this product."

"If you look at some of the other offerings right now that are available in the market, they do offer APM as well as the product they're offering. I believe Sumo Logic is not there yet. So that's something which I would love to see."

"Sumo Logic needs to make sure integrating solutions are seamless."

"We would like the ability to drill down into a dashboard and get into deeper levels."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers."

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

"Be cautious of metadata inclusion for log types in pricing, as there are some "gotchas" with that."

"Our licensing fees are billed annually and per terabyte."

"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."

"[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."

"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."

"I like the pricing very much. They keep it simple. It is a single price based on data ingested, and they do it on an average. If you get a spike of data that flows in, they will not stick it to you or charge you for that. They are very fair about that."

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"If we went to ELK Stack, which is open source, it would have been less costly, but it would have required more development from our side."

"I don't pay the bill. I've heard the AWS Marketplace pricing is high, but I like the value."

"The pricing is a little high, but for the features that we receive from Sumo Logic, it suits the price. For some small organizations, the price might be a little high."

"The AWS Marketplace pricing is fairly reasonable for what it does. I wouldn't call it expensive, but I wouldn't call it cheap. It is pretty good."

"Storing logs in Sumo Logic Security is charged GB-wise, which is a little higher than other products."

"Pricing has been cheaper than some of the competing tools, like Splunk."

"The AWS Marketplace pricing is borderline. Every annual renewal, we always contemplate if we are getting what we think we could out of it or could we do it cheaper with some other product."

"The price scaling comes in a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

University

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Devo?

Devo has a really good website for creating custom configurations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

Compared to Splunk or SentinelOne, it is really expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with Devo?

They can improve their AI capabilities. If you look at some integrations like XDR or AI, which add to the platform to correlate situations in events, there are areas for enhancement. For instance, ...

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What do you like most about Sumo Logic Security?

Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sumo Logic Security?

The pricing structure for Sumo Logic Security is based on two elements: data storage and the number of scans. This makes it more cost-effective because other solutions often include a third element...

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What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Security?

In terms of improvement, feedback indicates there is a need for a local data center in my country. This is crucial to sell to the government and financial sectors as they require data retention wit...

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Overview

Devo is the only cloud-native logging and security analytics platform that releases the full potential of all your data to empower bold, confident action when it matters most. Only the Devo platform delivers the powerful combination of real-time visibility, high-performance analytics, scalability, multitenancy, and low TCO crucial for monitoring and securing business operations as enterprises accelerate their shift to the cloud.

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Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic is a cloud-based machine data analytics company focusing on security, operations, and BI use cases. It provides log management and analytics services that leverage machine-generated big data to deliver real-time IT insights.

Sumo Logic is developed as a SaaS solution, it processes and analyzes large quantities of IT infrastructure data, spotting patterns and anomalies that can indicate a potential threat or significant event.

The platform is designed to help IT, security, and business operations teams develop, manage, and secure their applications and cloud infrastructures. It collects, aggregates, and analyzes data from various sources including servers, virtual machines, and network devices, providing visibility into complex systems.

What are the key features of Sumo Logic?

Real-time Analytics: Continuous queries and live dashboards that provide insights into application performance, user behavior, and security threats.
Advanced Machine Learning: Utilizes machine learning algorithms to identify trends, anomalies, and patterns.
Integrated Threat Intelligence: Tools and workflows to enhance security postures by detecting threats and anomalies.
Multi-tenant Cloud Service: Allows users to operate in a shared cloud environment securely.

The solution aims to simplify data complexity, streamline operations, and provide actionable insights to businesses across various industries.

Sumo Logic is designed to handle high data volumes from multiple sources without diminishing performance. It is primarily deployed in the cloud with seamless integrations for AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This flexibility allows users to leverage Sumo Logic’s capabilities regardless of their existing cloud infrastructure.

In summary, Sumo Logic is a comprehensive, AI-driven analytics solution ideal for businesses looking to enhance their IT and security operations through data-driven insights and real-time monitoring. Its flexible deployment options and scalable pricing model make it accessible for various business sizes and sectors.

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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

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