We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and SolarWinds Log Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"It's very customizable, which is quite helpful."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"The scalability is good. It can be scaled easily in the production environment."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"Elastic has a lot of beats, such as Winlogbeat and Filebeat. Beats are the agents that have to be installed on the terminals to send the data. When we install beats or Elastic agents on every terminal, they don't overload the terminals. In other SIEM solutions such as Splunk or QRadar, when beats or agents are installed on endpoints, they are very heavy for the terminals. They consume a lot of power of the terminals, whereas Elastic agents hardly consume any power and don't overload the terminals."
"It is very quick to react. I can set it to check anomalies or suspicious behavior every 30 seconds. It is very fast."
"Its flexibility is most valuable. We can have a number of scenarios, and we can get logs from anything. If we know how to use Logstash, we can tweak it in many ways. This makes the logging search on Elastic very easy."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"We'd like better premium support."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"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."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th in Log Management with 1 review. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is rated 0.0. 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 SolarWinds Log Analyzer writes "Can be used to monitor a specific log or do specific actions, but its initial setup is not so easy". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, syslog-ng and Loggly.
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