We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Elastic Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The most valuable thing is that this solution is widely used for work management and research. It's easy to jump into the security use case with the same technology."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"The problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"With Elastic Security, the challenge arises from the fact that there is a learning curve in relation to queries and understanding the query language provided to extract usable data."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"Technical support could respond faster."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Elastic Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
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