We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Snare 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."Sentinel pricing is good"
"I believe one of the main advantages is Microsoft Sentinel's seamless integration with other Microsoft products."
"The Identity Behavior tab furnishes us with the entire history linked to each IP or domain that has either accessed or attempted to access our system."
"The machine learning and artificial intelligence on offer are great."
"Sentinel improved how we investigate incidents. We can create watchlists and update them to align with the latest threat intelligence. The information Microsoft provides enables us to understand thoroughly and improve as we go along. It allows us to provide monthly reports to our clients on their security posture."
"It's pretty powerful and its performance is pretty good."
"I like the KQL query. It simplifies getting data from the table and seeing the logs. All you need to know are the table names. It's quite easy to build use cases by using KQL."
"The dashboard that allows me to view all the incidents is the most valuable feature."
"The visualization is very good."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"It's a good platform and the very best in the current market. We looked at the Forester report from December 2022 where it was said to be a leader."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"I can look at events from more than one source across multiple different locations and find patterns or anomalies. The machine learning capabilities are helpful, and I can create rules for notifications to be more proactive rather than responding after something has gone wrong."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to collect authentication information from service providers."
"Snare has good agents, especially for Windows."
"The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value."
"The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency."
"Microsoft Sentinel should provide an alternative query language to KQL for users who lack KQL expertise."
"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."
"We do see continuous improvement all the time, however, I haven't got a specific feature that is lacking or not well designed."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"If I can use Sentinel offline at home and use it on a local network, it would be great. I'm not sure if I can use Sentinel offline versus the tools I have."
"Sentinel could improve its ticketing and management. A few customers I have worked with liked to take the data created in Sentinel. You can make some basic efforts around that, but the customers wanted to push it to a third-party system so they could set up a proper ticketing management system, like ServiceNow, Jira, etc."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"If Sentinel had a graphical user interface, it would be easier to use. I would also like it to be more customizable."
"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."
"It could use maybe a little more on the Linux side."
"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."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"Elastic has one problem. In the past, Elastic Security was free. Now, they currently only offer the basic license or a certain period of time."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"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."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet."
"Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare."
"Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Snare is ranked 41st in Log Management with 3 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Snare 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 Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, IBM Security QRadar and CrowdStrike Falcon, whereas Snare is most compared with syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). See our Elastic Security vs. Snare report.
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