We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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."The product has huge integration varieties available."
"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to collect authentication information from service providers."
"We like Elastic Security because it's a REST API-based solution. That's the primary reason we use it."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
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"We're using the open-source edition, for now, I think maybe they can allow their OLED plugin to be open source, as at the moment it is commercialised."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"An area for improvement in Elastic Security is the pricing. It could be better. Right now, when you increase the volume of logs to be collected, the price also increases a lot."
"There are connectors to gather logs for Windows PCs and Linux PCs, but if we have to get the logs from Syslog then we have to do it manually, and this should be automated."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be more stable."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be even more automated."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Log Management with 9 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana. See our Elastic Security vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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