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Elastic Security vs Falcon LogScale comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.0
Elastic Security provides satisfactory ROI and cost savings, though users experience varied support levels and payback periods.
Sentiment score
4.9
Falcon LogScale boosts ROI by 20-40%, enhancing efficiency with faster queries and reduced manual log collection efforts.
It does not require hefty security budgets and can be deployed for enterprise security effectively.
Assistant Director at PTA
You save man hours, and man hours convert to business time and money time as well.
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
Falcon LogScale helps ease this process and sends logs to XDR for further verification.
IT System Administrator at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I have definitely seen ROI with Falcon LogScale so far.
CTO at Trust-IT Solutions
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Elastic Security support is inconsistent; users favor community and documentation, while premium users seek more responsive and personalized help.
Sentiment score
6.1
Customer opinions on Falcon LogScale vary, praising support and updates, but noting delays and inconsistent experiences.
Support is prompt and helpful.
Senior Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Most of the time when my team encounters issues, they receive responses within 24 hours.
Assistant Director at PTA
I have not faced any difficulties with Elastic Security, as we have a pretty good support service from them.
Chief Product Officer at ClusterPower
I would rate the customer support a 10 on a scale of one to 10.
Developer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
I raised a customer support request, and in response, they released a new version with a fix for that problem.
IT System Administrator at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The information contained in Falcon LogScale's documentation is very clear.
CTO at Trust-IT Solutions
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Elastic Security offers scalable solutions adaptable to various environments, praised for flexibility and requiring careful planning for integration.
Sentiment score
7.5
Falcon LogScale excels in scalability and performance, efficiently managing high data volumes with ease and adaptability.
It allows us to think about specific use cases, such as gathering malicious IPs in a single view and analyzing threats based on geolocation.
Assistant Director at PTA
Elastic Security is quite scalable.
Chief Product Officer at ClusterPower
If there is a critical incident with an associated IP, associated user, endpoints, or whatever factor it is supposed to associate, it associates it by default and makes our life easier, making the SOC life easier.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
You could integrate as many endpoints as you want within a fraction of seconds, and it accommodates the number of resources that you integrate with it while maintaining the same response time.
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
Easily supports thousands of endpoints and servers across multiple locations without heavy infrastructure.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Elastic Security is generally stable and reliable but can face challenges with big data and requires careful configuration.
Sentiment score
8.4
Falcon LogScale is praised for its stability, reliability, efficient data handling, and robust real-time log search capabilities.
In terms of stability, I would rate Elastic a solid eight out of ten.
Senior Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It uses an index-free architecture, it does not suffer from index corruption or the complications that other legacy tools face.
Engineer at Softcell Technologies Limited
Falcon LogScale is very strong in real-time log search.
Soc Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
We did not have any problems with Falcon LogScale in terms of stability and reliability.
CTO at Trust-IT Solutions
 

Room For Improvement

Elastic Security needs improvements in authentication, usability, automation, scalability, integration, and pricing, with user-friendly dashboards and documentation.
Falcon LogScale needs better query language, documentation, UX, integration, scalability, AI features, support speed, and affordability improvements.
CrowdStrike and Defender have more established threat intelligence integration due to having a larger client base.
Senior Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My security testing team continuously reports vulnerabilities, and we have to fix and update the versions frequently.
Assistant Director at PTA
Machine learning algorithms become better with time; as they ingest a huge volume of data, they become better.
Chief Product Officer at ClusterPower
For the ease of use for Falcon administrators, the same documentation on the Falcon LogScale portal should be on the CrowdStrike dashboard.
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
KQL is simpler when compared to SQL. However, SQL is faster and quite efficient, but the language is a bit tough.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
What they have done now is added what is called Charlotte AI, which is their new AI capabilities that can help with this.
CTO at Trust-IT Solutions
 

Setup Cost

Elastic Security provides a free open-source option, competitive pricing, and subscription plans, appealing to cost-conscious enterprises.
Falcon LogScale offers cost-effective and flexible pricing, praised for ease of deployment and competitive with major competitors.
The pricing is reasonable, especially for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), making it a viable option for businesses building their security infrastructure.
Senior Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is beneficial for SMEs as they do not need extensive budgets for security solutions.
Assistant Director at PTA
Elastic Security is considered cost-effective, especially at lower EPS levels.
Performance Practice Specialist at a local government with 10,001+ employees
I believe when it comes to log ingestion, it is comparatively low compared to any other services like Microsoft, Trend Micro, or Splunk.
Security Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
For us, it is a very cost-effective solution.
CTO at Trust-IT Solutions
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward, and the cost is quite low.
Developer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

Elastic Security provides scalable, customizable threat response with fast search, real-time analysis, and strong community support for actionable insights.
Falcon LogScale integrates easily, offering real-time log ingestion, fast search, scalability, and powerful AI-driven security insights.
Elastic Security offers good insight regarding alerts, reports, and cases.
Senior Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Elastic Security offers advanced features such as machine learning and integration with ChatGPT.
Performance Practice Specialist at a local government with 10,001+ employees
We require rapid processing speed for alerts and event data, and Elastic Security is very efficient at handling this level of data.
Assistant Director at PTA
You can describe what you want to do in English, and it converts it to a query language for you to use.
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
Traditional SIEM tools index logs, which is slow and expensive. Falcon LogScale stores logs without heavy indexing and searches directly, making it very fast.
Soc Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
The best features in Falcon LogScale include searches of billions of logs in seconds, near-real-time ingestion and alerting, and index-free architecture, which makes queries faster and cheaper.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies
 

Categories and Ranking

Elastic Security
Ranking in Log Management
13th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (7th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (19th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (11th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (12th)
Falcon LogScale
Ranking in Log Management
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Elastic Security is 3.3%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Falcon LogScale is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Falcon LogScale0.9%
Elastic Security3.3%
Other95.8%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

Laurentiu Popescu - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Product Officer at ClusterPower
Has improved threat detection with deep log analysis and streamlined investigation workflows
The most useful features I find in Elastic Security are the forensic ones that allow us to carry deeper analysis into the logs for in-depth investigations, and the dashboards, with the reporting dashboard being quite user-friendly. Elastic Security is quite good at identifying threats, as it is part of the deep investigation tool that I mentioned before. Unless we need to look further into a certain log, we can carry out a deeper analysis and forensics on those particular logs. I can assess the impact of Elastic Security's real-time data analysis on our threat response efficiency as working pretty good. We are looking for real-time analysis because we have a continuous inflow of logs from different sources: from our cloud, from Active Directory, from our network. So it works pretty well.
Oluwajuwon Olorunlona - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
Advanced threat hunting has improved visibility and has simplified custom query automation
CrowdStrike is ahead of the game. If I may say anything about Falcon LogScale to improve the services, I would talk about the way you develop parsers. The documentation should be more straightforward. It is not easy to quickly find the documentation, especially if you are using CrowdStrike. Most customers use Falcon LogScale because of CrowdStrike. The documentation of Falcon LogScale is not on the CrowdStrike portal just like the rest of Falcon documentation. I usually find that the main Falcon LogScale documentation is found on the Falcon LogScale website itself. I think there should be a link or direct documentation within the CrowdStrike pages. It is not necessarily a fault. If you find where the documentation resides, you can trace it to what they are doing. However, for the ease of use for Falcon administrators, the same documentation on the Falcon LogScale portal should be on the CrowdStrike dashboard.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Media Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Elastic Security?
I am satisfied with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing cost. It is a pure 10.
What needs improvement with Elastic Security?
I do not have any specific recommendations for improvements in Elastic Security, but I feel that the AI module should get more mature. These machine learning algorithms become better with time; as ...
What needs improvement with Falcon LogScale?
One area that needs improvement is performance during heavy log ingestion workloads. In our environment, there are situations where Falcon LogScale experiences delays while forwarding large amounts...
What is your primary use case for Falcon LogScale?
Falcon LogScale has significantly improved our security monitoring and investigation workflow. Before implementing Falcon LogScale and XDR integration, manual log analysis was time-consuming and di...
What advice do you have for others considering Falcon LogScale?
I would rate Falcon LogScale 9 out of 10. I recommend it for organizations looking for centralized log ingestion, integration with CrowdStrike XDR, and automated security analysis workflows.
 

Also Known As

Elastic SIEM, ELK Logstash
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Texas A&M, U.S. Air Force, NuScale Power, Martin's Point Health Care
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