We performed a comparison between Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) and IBM Security QRadar 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."Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"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."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"It also has a graph that shows the traffic history. I can see what happened yesterday or today. If there's an incident, I can check the traffic behavior on QRadar."
"The initial setup is not complex or difficult."
"QRadar shows very effective correlations. If you combine all the logins plus user behavior and the current intelligence, it gives a very good correlation for business. I think it reduces the false positives in user activity monitoring because there is a lot of social information to correlate with other data."
"The event collector, flow collector, PCAP and SOAR are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is user behavior analytics (UBA)."
"What's most valuable in IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is its higher availability than other tools."
"There are other third-party plugins that we can use."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"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 could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be more stable."
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"There is a shortage of skilled individuals with knowledge about the solution. There is training required."
"IBM needs to invest more into the collaboration with other vendors."
"They should introduce some automation into the product."
"The initial setup requires that you have somebody with the proper skill set, and it would help if the configuration were easier."
"IBM Security QRadar’s GUI could be improved."
"QVM is another instance where they need to revise the vulnerability scoring and the proper remediation details."
"Some of the cloud apps need improvement."
"IBM is going through some problems with its resources currently making its support response time slow."
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Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 27th in Log Management with 9 reviews while IBM Security QRadar is ranked 6th in Log Management with 198 reviews. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8, while IBM Security QRadar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security QRadar writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides good technical support". Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana, whereas IBM Security QRadar is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, LogRhythm SIEM and Elastic Security. See our Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) vs. IBM Security QRadar report.
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