We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and NetCrunch 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."Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"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 intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"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."
"Improvements in Elastic Security could include refining and normalizing queries to make them more user-friendly, enhancing the user experience with better documentation, and addressing any latency issues."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"It is difficult to anticipate and understand the space utilization, so more clarity there would be great."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Log Management. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while NetCrunch is rated 8.0. 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 NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Elastic Security vs. NetCrunch report.
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