We performed a comparison between LogRhythm SIEM and Security Onion 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."We now have a central point of monitoring for all potential threats."
"The product is great for medium to large-scale organizations."
"The most valuable feature of LogRhythm for me is the ability to correlate logs throughout many different log sources."
"The ability to investigate a particular period of time where you can analyze logs is its most valuable feature."
"The correlation engine is extremely valuable because it uses machine learning to process information from the central manager and identifies issues in the network."
"Compliance reporting is another great feature of this product. It has built in reports right out of the box."
"Its ability to work with all different sorts of log sources has been extremely valuable."
"We have NetFlow information going into it, so we can examine a lot of traffic patterns and anomalies, especially if something stands out and is not the baseline. This helps a lot."
"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."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"I would really love to be able to take some of the data and not have to export it to a CSV file, so I can pull it into Excel to turn it into some other kind of graph."
"Appliance-based setups can sometimes pose scalability issues"
"The log storage capacity should be increased."
"Parsing is totally controlled by LogRhythm and they do not allow any partner or any third-party to handle this part and this is a key challenge on my end."
"More help and assistance with some of the open source products, everything seems to be focused on Windows versus giving some guidance and some documentation on how to use it."
"When we originally got LogRhythm, their tech support was fantastic, and I loved them. Now, we don't quite get as quick of a response. I've been disappointed in the more recent tech support. When you call in, they'll say that they will get you somebody, and you'll finally get someone who will contact you back a day or so later. Whereas before, I would get help right away."
"We would like to see more things out of the console into the web UI. I guess this is what they are doing in 7.4."
"Stability has probably been one area where Health Checks have not been great with the product. We have been told that they are going to improve Health Checks on product, though we do struggle with them on a daily basis."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 33rd in Log Management with 3 reviews. LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". 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". LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and LogRhythm Axon, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Security. See our LogRhythm SIEM vs. Security Onion report.
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