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100% willing to recommend
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66% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Kubecost and Security Onion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AWS Marketplace solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Kubecost vs. Security Onion Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"I mostly like the dashboards.""It offers a detailed examination of your cluster, including the types of instances utilized, allocated CPU and RAM, and resource distribution for specific applications.""The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers."

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"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment.""Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market.""The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."

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Cons
"There is a significant potential for enhancing it through the incorporation of advanced technologies like AI and generative AI.""The integration with other solutions could be improved.""Faster monitoring could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment."

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"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult.""The product is not easy to learn.""Security Onion's user interface could be improved."

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  • "The cost of the tool may seem nominal compared to the potential savings in infrastructure expenses."
  • "The cost is cheap. Kubecost has an open-source core."
  • "The real savings come from using Kubecost features like autoscaling and serverless functions to optimize your resource usage. If you treat it like a data center migration without fine-tuning, it might cost more."
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  • "Security Onion is a free solution."
  • "It is an open-source solution."
  • "Security Onion is an open-source solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers.
    Top Answer:The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers. In all honesty, once you have your optimal design, you could just turn it off and then activate it maybe once every six months or once every… more »
    Top Answer:In future releases, I would like to see faster monitoring because it could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports.
    Top Answer:Security Onion is an open-source solution. On a scale from one to ten, where ten is expensive and one is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.
    Top Answer:The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult.
    Ranking
    15th
    out of 130 in AWS Marketplace
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    58
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    Average Words per Review
    691
    Rating
    9.3
    1st
    out of 130 in AWS Marketplace
    Views
    488
    Comparisons
    422
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    330
    Rating
    7.7
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    Kubecost - Amazon EKS cost monitoring
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    Overview

    Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs.
    Breakdown costs by any Kubernetes concepts, including deployment, service, namespace label, and more. View costs across multiple clusters in a single view or via a single API endpoint.
    Receive dynamic recommendations for reducing spend without sacrificing performance. Prioritize key infrastructure or application changes for improving resource efficiency and reliability.
    Quickly catch cost overruns and infrastructure outage risks before they become a problem with real-time notifications. Preserve engineering workflows by integrating with tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack.

    Security Onion is a free and open Linux distribution for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. The easy-to-use Setup wizard allows you to build an army of distributed sensors for your enterprise in minutes!
    Security Onion includes a native web interface with built-in tools analysts use to respond to alerts, hunt for evil, catalog evidence into cases, monitor grid performance, and much more. Additionally, third-party tools, such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, Zeek (formerly known as Bro), Wazuh, Stenographer, CyberChef, NetworkMiner, and many more are included.

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    Computer Software Company13%
    Government11%
    University10%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    Kubecost vs. Security Onion
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Kubecost vs. Security Onion and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Kubecost is ranked 15th in AWS Marketplace with 3 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 1st in AWS Marketplace with 3 reviews. Kubecost is rated 9.4, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Kubecost writes "Identifies and eliminates overprovisioning of expensive resources like storage, highly scalable and offers performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Kubecost is most compared with , whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our Kubecost vs. Security Onion report.

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