Logz.io vs Sentinel comparison

Logz.io and OpenText are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Logz.io is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.3, while OpenText is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.7. Logz.io holds a 0.4% mindshare in SIEM, compared to OpenText’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Logz.io users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Logz.io

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90% willing to recommend

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82% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Sentinel and Logz.io are both leading log management and analysis solutions. Logz.io surpasses Sentinel with its superior features, making it worth the investment.

Features: Sentinel users value its robust threat detection, automated response capabilities, and overall favorable pricing. Logz.io users enjoy advanced analytics, seamless integration with multiple data sources, and comprehensive feature sets.

Room for Improvement: Sentinel needs better scalability, more intuitive configuration options, and enhancements in customer service. Logz.io could improve its data visualization, query performance speed, and overall user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sentinel is known for its straightforward deployment but mixed customer service reviews. Logz.io is praised for efficient deployment and highly rated customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Sentinel is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI. Logz.io has higher setup costs but offers significant long-term value due to its features and performance.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Logz.io

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

40th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (32nd)

Sentinel

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Logz.io is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentinel is 3.9%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sentinel	3.9%
Logz.io	0.4%
Other	95.7%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is a consistent logging platform that provides excellent query mechanisms

We can query a lot of data points and build dashboards. The vendor is good at adjusting their models. Most companies want us to forecast our yearly use and pay it upfront on day one. With Logz.io, we commit to use 14 TB in a year. However, they measure us every month and give us a monthly bill. Depending on our monthly usage, we pay for 14 TB divided by 12 months or a little extra. It's a little bit more like AWS. Other solutions do not do it. They want their money upfront. We really like the dashboards. We have 36 sub-accounts. Each sub-account is an app, and we could put restrictions on that app. Previously, there were capacity restrictions on the sub-accounts. If we have a sub-account of 1 TB and use only 100 GB, we waste 900 GB that day. We could not share it between sub-accounts. Now, they provide an overhead volume. We do a reserve, and any sub-account could use anything over the reserve. It utilizes our footprint better.

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Simon Johnston

Manager, Customer Success at Coltek Business Soltuions

Simple antivirus solution integrates well but could improve pricing and currency options

I don't really have experience working with these solutions. I promote them for our clients, but I don't work with them. I can't share my experience with these tools as I make assumptions about that. For both Adlumin and CrowdStrike, both confirm that they're scalable and enterprise-ready and all those kinds of things. We haven't had any specific problem with either of those. We just have a preference for which one we would prefer. If somebody says they want to use a different one from the one that we prefer, then we have to find reasons why they aren't. But scalability is not one of the reasons that one is better over the other. I don't really have advice for people that are looking into using Sentinel; just do your research across what is available. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Sentinel a seven.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The visualizations in Kibana are the most valuable feature. It's much more convenient to have a visualization of logs. We can see status really clearly and very fast, with just a couple of clicks."

"We use the product for log collection and monitoring."

"We use the tool to track the dev and production environment."

"The other nice thing about Logz.io is their team. When it comes to onboarding, their support is incredibly proactive. They bring the brand experience from a customer services perspective because their team is always there to help you refine filters and tweak dashboards. That is really a useful thing to have. Their engagement is really supportive."

"InsightOne is the main reason why we use LogMeIn. This is mostly because of log data that we are pushing tools and logs in general."

"It is massively useful and great for testing. We can just go, find logs, and attach them easily. It has a very quick lookup. Whereas, before we would have to go, dig around, and find the server that the logs were connected to, then go to the server, download the log, and attach it. Now, we can just go straight to this solution, type in the log ID and server ID, and obtain the information that we want."

"The tool is simple to setup where it is just plug and play. The tool is reliable and we never had any performance issues."

"The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable."

"In my opinion, Sentinel's best features include that it's a very easy product to use, it's very simple, and the after-sale service is very good."

"The most valuable feature is the flexible log for identifying security threats inside an application. Sentinel is very good at this."

"The stability is phenomenal and we never had any issues with downtime or even had to restart."

"We can do advanced hunting queries and modify SQL queries to get desired results based on the rules triggering over the console."

"Sentinel gave us logs to tell us what's going right and wrong in your environment so we could secure the network."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it provides a central locking system for many event sources."

"The solution's Kusto Query Language (KQL) execution time is pretty good."

"The native integration with out-of-the box format is hassle free and allows data to be used advantageously."

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Cons

"The solution needs to expand its access control and make it accessible through API."

"I would like granularity on alerting so we can get tentative alerts and major alerts, then break it down between the two."

"The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective."

"When it comes to reducing our troubleshooting time, it depends. When there are no bugs in Logz.io, it reduces troubleshooting by 5 to 10 percent. When there are bugs, it increases our troubleshooting time by 200 percent or more."

"The price can be cheaper and they should have better monitoring."

"I would like them to improve how they manage releases. Some of our integrations integrate specifically with set versions. Logz.io occasionally releases an update that might break that integration. On one occasion, we found out a little bit too late, then we had to roll it back."

"The solution needs to improve its data retention. It should be greater than seven days. The product needs to improve its documentation as well."

"Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle."

"This product's connection to certain types of cloud systems could be improved. We can do Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, but there are a lot of other things happening in the cloud that we do not connect well enough to. This product could be improved with better connection to cloud-based solutions."

"You need a lot of Unix scripting knowledge in order to manage the tool, which is one of the main issues that we faced."

"Creating a drag-and-drop dashboard or workbook in Sentinel is a little more complex compared to other tools like LogRhythm and IBM QRadar."

"It is an ancient product."

"I would like to see a better reporting work structure on the dashboard."

"The dashboard and customer view should be improved"

"There is a need for more flexibility in customization, especially when working with different vendors and platforms."

"There is no integration in the web-side of the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is cheaper than other solutions."

"At the time it was set up, we thought Logz.io was very reasonable for what we were getting in terms of how much time and hosting costs it was saving us, because you don't have to run the servers for it anymore."

"The tool is an open source product."

"You pay for what you need, and that is a good model. They are also quite happy to talk to you about your uses and your use case. They will even go as far as suggesting things that you don't need to do in order to save you money. At one point, I was quite surprised at how cheap it could be if we wanted it to be or how much they would help us manage our costs."

"The product is a little expensive."

"We inquired about getting support from the vendor, Micro Focus, but the cost was very high."

"The solution’s pricing is aligned with its competitors."

"We receive a pricing discount because of our ongoing partnership with Micro Focus."

"Sentinel's slightly on the expensive side."

"Sentinel is moderately priced."

"Sentinel is a subscription-based solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Logz.io?

The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Logz.io?

The product is a little expensive. We're pushing 17 TB. It costs us one and a half million dollars a year.

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What needs improvement with Logz.io?

Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle. The product must add some AI capabilities to learn from previous behaviors. Instead of us setting thresholds, the tool should learn the thresh...

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What do you like most about NetIQ Sentinel?

The solution lets us get all the logs properly and regularly monitor customer infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetIQ Sentinel?

I don't have too many comments overall about pricing as we're in South Africa, so it makes more sense if it's billed in rand. They nearly always bill it in dollars, so if it can be billed in our cu...

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What needs improvement with NetIQ Sentinel?

I'm not sure what the room for improvement is for Sentinel. It needs to stay current, and it does, so I suppose that's fine. I don't have a high demand for what it should do. Price is always a cons...

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Also Known As

Logz

NetIQ Sentinel, Novell SIEM

Overview

Logz.io is a leading cloud-native observability platform that enables engineers to use the best open source tools in the market without the complexity of operating, managing, and scaling them. Logz.io offers four products: Log Management built on ELK, Infrastructure Monitoring based on Prometheus, Distributed Tracing based on Jaeger, and an ELK-based Cloud SIEM. These are offered as fully managed, integrated cloud services designed to help engineers monitor, troubleshoot and secure their distributed cloud workloads more effectively. Engineering driven companies like Siemens, Unity and ZipRecruiter use Logz.io to simplify monitoring and security workflows, increasing developer productivity, reducing time to resolve issues, and increasing the performance and security of their mission-critical applications.

Logz.io

Sentinel is a full-featured Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that simplifies the deployment, management and day-to-day use of SIEM, readily adapts to dynamic enterprise environments and delivers the true "actionable intelligence" security professionals need to quickly understand their threat posture and prioritize response.

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Sample Customers

Dish Network, The Economist, Forbes, Holler, Kenshoo, OneSpan, Siemens, Sisense, Unity, ZipRecruiter

Faysal Bank, GaVI, Handelsbanken, ISC Mªnster, Lambeth Council, Swisscard, The Municipality of Siena, Tukes, University of Dayton, University of the Sunshine Coast

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