We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is more flexible than AlienVault."
"ELK Logstash is easy and fast, at least for the initial setup with the out of box uses."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"This solution cannot do predictive maintenance, so we have to build our own modules for doing it."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"The problem with ELK is it's difficult to administer. When you have a problem, it can be very, very difficult to rebuild indexes."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"The Integration module could be improved. It is a pain to build integration with any product. We have to do parking and so on. It's not like other commercial solutions that use profile integration. I would also see more detection features on the SIEM side."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
"Technical support should be improved."
"The tool is expensive."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
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Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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