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Devo pros and cons

Vendor: Devo

4.2 out of 5

24 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Devo enhances analysis efficiency by integrating multiple data sources on one dashboard, facilitating quick investigations with its high-speed search for real-time threat responses. It handles extensive historical data for deeper threat analysis but faces challenges with documentation, user activity access, and pre-built monitoring tools. Parsing issues affect customer relations, while technical support and service management need refinement to optimize task handling and user experience.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Devo enables analysts to build timelines and integrate multiple data sources in one dashboard, saving time and improving accuracy.

The platform significantly reduces log analysis time, allowing investigations to proceed quickly from initial data gathering to actionable insights.

Devo provides high-speed search capabilities that are essential for real-time security analysis and rapid response to threats.

Devo's extensive parser library facilitates seamless log data ingestion, unlocking the full potential of different log types.

Its capability to manage and process large amounts of historical data enhances threat hunting and offers extended retention for detailed analysis.

CONS

Devo's documentation needs improvement, with a focus on tech writing for updates and functionality.

Admins have limited access to user activity data, which should extend beyond a single day.

Devo lacks pre-built monitoring capabilities, requiring users to start from scratch.

Parsing different log types is deficient, affecting customer onboarding and relationships.

Technical support could be more direct, with issues in service management and task delegation.

Devo Pros review quotes

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Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 22, 2025

The drill-down reports capabilities allow analysts to click on any element in a widget. When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.

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Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer II (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

May 25, 2026

Devo has improved our visibility, log management efficiency, and investigation capabilities positively.

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CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Aug 2, 2024

It centralizes security management within a business, functioning as a core system for a SOC.

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JB

Security Engineer at Kforce

Oct 7, 2022

The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that.

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reviewer1991436

IT Risk Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is.

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KG

Director of World Wide Security Services at Open Text

Dec 7, 2021

Devo helps us to unlock the full power of our data because they have more than 450 parsers, which means that we can ingest pretty much any type of log data.

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Product Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 7, 2021

Those 400 days of hot data mean that people can look for trends and at what happened in the past. And they can not only do so from a security point of view, but even for operational use cases. In the past, our operational norm was to keep live data for only 30 days. Our users were constantly asking us for at least 90 days, and we really couldn't even do that. That's one reason that having 400 days of live data is pretty huge. As our users start to use it and adopt this system, we expect people to be able to do those long-term analytics.

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reviewer1539015

Director at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

Scalability is one of Devo's strengths.

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CEO at Analytica 42

Nov 30, 2021

Devo provides a multi-tenant, cloud-native architecture. This is critical for managed service provider environments or multinational organizations who may have subsidiaries globally. It gives organizations a way to consolidate their data in a single accessible location, yet keep the data separate. This allows for global views and/or isolated views restricted by access controls by company or business unit.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time.

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Devo Cons review quotes

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Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 22, 2025

The tools in Devo's active ports need enhancement in their investigative capabilities.

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Vikram Chakravarthy

Cyber Security Engineer II (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO

May 25, 2026

One improvement area for Devo could be simplifying some configuration and improving the onboarding for new analysts because it is quite complex for fresher or new analysts who are handling Devo.

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CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Aug 2, 2024

They can improve their AI capabilities

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JB

Security Engineer at Kforce

Oct 7, 2022

Some of the documentation could be improved a little bit. A lot of times it doesn't go as deep into some of the critical issues you might run into. They've been really good to shore us up with support, but some of the documentation could be a little bit better.

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reviewer1991436

IT Risk Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness.

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KG

Director of World Wide Security Services at Open Text

Dec 7, 2021

We only use the core functionality and one of the reasons for this is that their security operation center needs improvement.

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Product Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 7, 2021

One major area for improvement for Devo... is to provide more capabilities around pre-built monitoring. They're working on integrations with different types of systems, but that integration needs to go beyond just onboarding to the platform. It needs to include applications, out-of-the-box, that immediately help people to start monitoring their systems. Such applications would include dashboards and alerts, and then people could customize them for their own needs so that they aren't starting from a blank slate.

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reviewer1539015

Director at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

My opinion on the solution's technical support is not as great as it could be because of the issues I have faced regarding the service management element.

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CEO at Analytica 42

Nov 30, 2021

Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards.

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