Elastic Stack vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs comparison

"I have experienced a return on investment from the use of the solution."

"The tool's most powerful aspect is its search engine capability. It's a highly effective and powerful solution for searching. We use it in professional and student projects at universities, and it delivers promising results."

"The tool is huge, and it performs brilliantly. I tested it for malware, and within two weeks of launching, the product alerted me about a network intrusion. This was a tough test for it, but it performed admirably. The alerting system is excellent, and searching through logs is incredibly efficient. What's impressive is that all three products or options are integrated into one solution. This means I don't need separate logging, monitoring, or antivirus solutions."

"It is a very scalable solution...I didn't face any problem with this scalability part of the solution since we only have a few pieces of equipment in our company."

"We can group a lot of alarms into one automation alarm supervision. The alarm supervision allows us to put the alarm under the same. It's quite helpful for us. We used that to suppress our alarms. Elastic already provides the agent. It is easy to integrate Elastic Stack with other devices and vendors."

"The solution's technical support is good...Elastic Stack offers good value for value for money based on the product's features and what they offer."

"The machine learning capabilities are valuable."

"I think the ecosystem is well supported, and for logs, it was faster compared to our previous previous log management."

"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."

"The solution is quite user-friendly."

"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."

"One of the most valuable features of vRealize Log Insight is that it gives you a clear forecast about your existing machines, for example, how long your machines could be supported and how long the remaining capacity is to host your machines. This is one of the best options available within vRealize Log Insight. Another valuable feature of the solution is automation. My company deploys a lot of automation when required in a very, very short period, and in a very uniform manner, and even if the automation is being deployed for different processes and departments, it's pretty much the same across the environment, so vRealize Log Insight helps reduce a lot of ambiguities and helps my company manage operational efficiencies well."

"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."

"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."

"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."

"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."

"There could be better documentation."

"When people try to move the data from another source to Elastic Stack for visualization, they face challenges when connecting to Elastic Stack from such different sources."

"The main issue related to Elastic Stack is in the area of its licensing."

"The solution is expensive, particularly the training and certification. If customers want to increase their use of Elastic Stack, they should consider reducing the cost of certification and training."

"Elastic Stack should work on their dashboards and integration process."

"Improvements are needed in the solution in areas like SOAR and TIP, where there are certain shortcomings."

"Agent deployment is a little tough in the on-premise version."

"Improving integration capabilities, especially with authentication systems, firewalls, and security controls, is a crucial area for improvement in Elastic Stack. Additionally, enhancing functionality to handle large Yara queries more efficiently would be beneficial, as many EDR solutions can run such queries faster than Elastic Stack's current limitations."

"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."

"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."

"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."

"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."

"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."

"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 pricing of the solution could be improved."

"The monitoring landscape is getting bigger. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we need more visibility. VMware needs to integrate more related applications and third-party products. That would make it more appealing to an audience beyond the VMware team."

"It depends on the specifics, but generally, Elastic is economical for certain use cases."

"The product is expensive."

"I used the open-source version of Elastic Stack, because of which I did not have to pay anything."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"Ultimately, the pricing depends upon the capacity planning that the enterprise architect does."

"We are using the open-source community version of the product."

"If I compare Elastic Stack to the other products in the market, I would say that the tool is available at a competitive price."

"The licensing cost for vRealize Log Insight is a little higher, so in terms of cost, it all depends upon what kind of environment you have. If you have a complete virtualized environment, or at least you're using a ninety-five percent virtualized environment, then vRealize Log Insight will play a very good role because it is a VMware component, so it has very tight integration with other VMware components and systems. This means you don't have to procure any other monitoring and management tool, and you don't need a separate automation tool. vRealize Log Insight will have an upper hand if your environment is purely virtualized on VMware. If you're using a mix of physical and virtual components, for example, a 50:50 ratio, then you need to have a third-party component to manage overall monitoring."

"The license cost for any other monitoring tool is too high compared to this product."

"I am not sure what the exact cost is. However, I believe the vRealize suite costs $2,500.00 per year."

"The product's price is reasonable, but when it comes to SQL licensing, it's a bit expensive."

"Pricing is good because it is part of the suite package. It comes in a bundle for us."

"The pricing has been updated recently."

"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Pricing could always be lower. If it were free, I would be more satisfied."