LogRhythm NDR vs Vectra AI comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Vectra AI and LogRhythm NDR compete in network detection and response solutions, focusing on threat detection and response capabilities. While LogRhythm NDR's robust feature set gives it a slight advantage, Vectra AI is praised for its advanced AI-driven analytics.

Features: Vectra AI focuses on AI-powered threat detection, quick identification of behavioral anomalies, and efficient threat prioritization. LogRhythm NDR is preferred for its in-depth log management, comprehensive network visibility, and SIEM integration. Vectra's AI insights contrast with LogRhythm's extensive data integration, showcasing their distinct strengths.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vectra AI provides a straightforward cloud-based deployment with responsive customer support, enabling seamless integration into existing infrastructures. LogRhythm NDR offers both on-premise and hybrid deployment models with highly rated support services. However, its deployment may require more initial configuration. Both brands receive praise for support, with LogRhythm's observability tools often needing more customization.

Pricing and ROI: Vectra AI generally involves higher upfront setup costs but delivers substantial ROI through advanced threat detection efficiency. LogRhythm NDR provides cost-effective scalability with notable ROI from its comprehensive analysis capabilities. LogRhythm can be more appealing financially due to lower initial costs and effective threat management, though Vectra's cost is justified by its AI sophistication.

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LogRhythm NDR vs. Vectra AI

April 2025

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Categories and Ranking

LogRhythm NDR

Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Vectra AI

Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (3rd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (15th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (10th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Detection and Response (NDR) category, the mindshare of LogRhythm NDR is 0.7%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vectra AI is 16.2%, down from 17.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Detection and Response (NDR)

Featured Reviews

AshishDubey

Product manager at Tata Communications Ltd

A scalable and stable tool that offers users a great GUI

Though I have not extensively worked on LogRhythm NDR, I know the need for a compute side since, in the past, we had required the compute side to deploy the solution in one of our company's client's infrastructure. The product's setup phase was easy and not complicated. The deployment process of LogRhythm NDR can vary between three and four weeks, depending on the skill set of the people involved in the deployment process. For deployment of the product, you have to purchase the license from LogRhythm, and you have to ensure that the compute side is ready for LogRhythm. After you deploy NDR and sensors in the premises of our company's customer on the SPAN and TAP port, and once the logs go through throughput, you can see the logs coming to LogRhythm NDR's console.

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Mohammad Alkurdi

Owner at Fortibits

Innovative detection features enhance monitoring

The advantages of the integration are not entirely out-of-the-box. You have to do it manually. When I'm doing tier response, an out-of-the-box solution is not available. You need to have a Linux server, and from the Linux server, you must perform AI tasks, and there is a lot to be handled in the back end. This is a major consideration about them. The recall feature, if it can be placed in some areas instead of the cloud, and charged for, would be better. Recall the storage where you watch all the traffic, and you can recall it and try to analyze it in the back end. It’s cloud-based. If they offer it on-prem, it would be better. I think they have a solution, but I have never tested it, to be honest with you.

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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 solution doesn't require the creation of rules or use cases from scratch, which assists our delivery team in installation and deployment. Its dashboard is user-friendly."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"It's an excellent security tool with a user-friendly interface that's easy for anyone to use."

"One of the things that we didn't expect to happen was that our network team also jumped on it faster than we thought. In most cases, if it's a security tool that's working on the network part, they can also use it to find out certain flaws that have been in the system. Certain flaws, related to some legacy stuff, were already there for quite a few years, which they couldn't explain at first, but we could explain them based on the timing of certain things."

"It keeps up with the network traffic, which is a good thing. It provides more context to plain alerts compared to using an older system. So, it helps an analyst reduce the information overload."

"It does a reliable job of parsing out the logs of all the network traffic so that we can ingest them into our SIEM and utilize them for threat hunting and case investigations. It is pretty robust and reliable. The administration time that we spend maintaining it or troubleshooting it is very low. So, the labor hour overhead is probably our largest benefit from it. We spend 99% of our time in Vectra investigating cases, responding to incidents, or hunting, and only around 1% of our time is spent patching, troubleshooting, or doing anything else. That's our largest benefit from Vectra."

"Vectra AI generates relevant information."

"There are many detection features available."

"The initial setup was pretty straightforward."

"The administrative privilege detection feature is the most valuable feature. The admin accounts are often highly accessible to the high-risk component of the environment. If those accounts are compromised or are being used in a suspicious manner, that's high-fidelity events for us to look into."

"The most valuable feature for Cognito Detect, the main solution, is that external IDS's create a lot of alerts. When I say a lot of alerts I really mean a lot of alerts. Vectra, on the other hand, contextualizes everything, reducing the number of alerts and pinpointing only the things of interest. This is a key feature for me. Because of this, a non-trained analyst can use it almost right away."

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Cons

"The tool has one limitation compared to its competitors. It does have a mobile app for NDR monitoring. Moreover, there is only operational training and not deployment training."

"From an improvement perspective, I would like LogRhythm NDR to reduce the compute size. I would also like LogRhythm NDR to improve the pricing model."

"There are opportunities for improvement, particularly in upgrading the expertise of local professionals and addressing support issues, which could potentially lead to cost reduction."

"Integration with other security components needs improvement. It should have true integration as opposed to just being a separate pane of glass."

"The solution needs to become more proactive. When Vectra AI is the primary solution in an environment - like it is in our case - you must work on response time. We have a small team so response time at endpoint level is vital."

"Other alternatives, like Darktrace, have a fancier UI."

"Vectra is still limited to packet management. It's only monitoring packet exchanges. While it can see a lot of things, it can't see everything, depending on where it's deployed. It has its limits and that's why I still have my SIEM."

"A blind spot that I have is around the ease with which you can automate threat intervention."

"An area for improvement in Vectra AI is reporting because it currently needs some details. For example, when you download a report from Vectra AI, you won't see complete information about the alerts or triggers. Another area for improvement in the tool is that sometimes, an alert has high severity, yet it's marked as low severity. Vectra AI should have a mechanism to change the severity level from low to high or critical."

"The reporting from Cognito Detect is very limited and doesn't give you too many options. If I want to prepare a customized report on a particular host, even though I see the data, I have to manually prepare the report. The reporting features that are built into the tool are not very helpful."

"Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are certain payments to be made towards the licensing costs attached to the product yearly. The pricing of LogRhythm NDR falls under the mid-range, in my opinion."

"The tool costs are two million rupees for 5000 users."

"When looking at the market and comparing it with other vendors, the cost seems relatively high."

"Vectra AI's pricing is cheaper than that of Darktrace."

"The pricing and licensing are quite straightforward because they're based on the IP licenses. As a result, they are easy to count."

"The pricing is very good. It's less expensive than many of the tools out there."

"We are running at about 90,000 pounds per year. The solution is a licensed cost. The hardware that they gave us was pretty much next to nothing. It is the license that we're paying for."

"The solution is low-cost and affordable."

"From a licensing perspective, the Vectra detect platform is pretty doable. Also, the hardware prices are nothing that we're not used to. The stream part is a little overpriced compared to the detect part. The reason is that you need to stream data to detect events anyway, so the data is in there. The only thing that's not available is the UI to be able to look at the stream data, which is also on the appliances but is just not activated. That's mainly the thing that we want to improve on."

"Their licensing model is antiquated. I'm not a fan of their licensing model. We have to pay for licensing based on four different things. You have to pay based on the number of unique IPs, the number of logs that we send through Recall and Stream, and the size of our environment. They need to simplify their licensing down to just one thing. It should be based on the amount of data, the number of devices, or something else, but there should be just one thing for everything. That's what they need to base their licensing on. Cost-wise, they're not cheap. They were definitely the most expensive option, but you get what you pay for. They're not the cheapest option."

"Vectra's licensing model could scale to our research network, which has multiple, 100-gigabit links."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about LogRhythm NDR?

It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogRhythm NDR?

The tool costs are two million rupees for 5000 users.

What needs improvement with LogRhythm NDR?

The tool has one limitation compared to its competitors. It does have a mobile app for NDR monitoring. Moreover, there is only operational training and not deployment training.

What is the biggest difference between Corelight and Vectra AI?

The two platforms take a fundamentally different approach to NDR. Corelight is limited to use cases that require the eventual forwarding of events and parsed data logs to a security team’s SIEM or ...

What do you like most about Vectra AI?

The solution is currently used as a central threat detection and response system.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vectra AI?

It is very acceptable when you compare it with Darktrace, for example.

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Also Known As

LogRhythm MistNet

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Overview

Securing your network against advanced persistent threats (APTs) requires greater visibility to detect actors and their actions so that you can reduce your response time. As threats increase, real-time network detection and response (NDR) solutions are more critical than ever.

While other NDR solutions rely solely on machine learning (ML) based threat detection, LogRhythm uses hybrid analytics that combine machine learning, rules-based detection, and threat intelligence to analyze network, user, and host activity. This holistic approach provides a true representation of all activity within the enterprise domain, making it possible to detect lateral movement, exfiltration, malware compromise, ransomware, and other threats in real time.

LogRhythm

Vectra AI is used for detecting network anomalies and potential malicious activities, providing visibility into network traffic and enhancing threat detection across environments.

Organizations deploy Vectra AI mainly on-premises with additional cloud components. It helps with compliance, incident response, security monitoring, detecting insider threats, and correlating network events. Vectra AI captures and enriches network metadata, provides detailed dashboards, reduces false positives, and supports cross-environment behavioral analysis to enhance threat detection and prioritization. While valued for its high accuracy and alert aggregation, it has room for improvement in UI/UX, packet management, and integration with SIEMs and other tools. It is noted for expensive pricing and limited proactive threat response features.

What are Vectra AI's most valuable features?

High accuracy in identifying threat locations
Aggregation of alerts into single incidents
24/7 threat detection
Visibility into the entire attack lifecycle
Risk score aggregation
Effective triaging of alerts
Integration with other tools

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced threat detection and prioritization
Comprehensive network visibility
Reduction in false positives
Better incident response capabilities
Improved compliance monitoring

In specific industries, Vectra AI is deployed to monitor complex networks and alleviate challenges in threat detection. It is particularly effective in sectors requiring stringent compliance and security measures, offering insights and capabilities crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining operational integrity.

Sample Customers

EMW, Conduent, University of Massachusetts, Deloitte Canada, Central Bank of Barbados, Coalfire

Tribune Media Group, Barry University, Aruba Networks, Good Technology, Riverbed, Santa Clara University, Securities Exchange, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association