Logz.io vs NetWitness Platform comparison

Logz.io and NetWitness are both solutions in the Log Management category. Logz.io is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.4, while NetWitness is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.8. Logz.io holds a 0.4% mindshare in Log Management, compared to NetWitness’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Logz.io users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 74% of NetWitness users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

NetWitness Platform and Logz.io are two prominent solutions in the cybersecurity and log analysis space. Users are happier with the advanced features and comprehensive support provided by NetWitness Platform. However, Logz.io excels in its ease of use and integration capabilities, giving it a competitive edge.

Features: NetWitness Platform users value its robust threat detection, comprehensive analytics, and advanced threat intelligence. Logz.io users appreciate its integration with open-source tools, real-time monitoring, and scalability features.

Room for Improvement: NetWitness Platform users highlight challenges with complexity, a steep learning curve, and the need for a more intuitive interface. Logz.io users point out the need for better documentation, enhanced scalability, and improved user training resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetWitness Platform users find deployment complex and time-consuming, but they praise the customer service. Logz.io users report a smoother deployment process with good customer service.

Pricing and ROI: NetWitness Platform is perceived as expensive, but users feel the ROI justifies the cost. Logz.io offers competitive pricing and users feel it provides good ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Logz.io

Ranking in Log Management

20th

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

25th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetWitness Platform

Ranking in Log Management

22nd

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

23rd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Logz.io is 0.4%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management

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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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MdZaman

IT manager at a agriculture with 10,001+ employees

Really scalable for enterprise customers

The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms. The API is nearly open and scalable, so the solution can integrate with many platforms. The solution has more than 200 log sources in the scalability to support, but this is its limit. Installation is pretty easy. However, there are a couple of modules involved, so it is not as easy as it could be. We are talking about a distributed module, not a single-module type. This is what makes things a bit complex, instead of easier. I rate it as a seven out of ten on its installation and configuration capabilities.

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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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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 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 tool to track the dev and production environment."

"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."

"The most valuable feature is the hunting ability to work in a CERT."

"The development of use cases on the SSA console is quite user friendly. This means that the security analyst or the researcher does not have to learn another language."

"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."

"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."

"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."

"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."

"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."

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Cons

"The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."

"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."

"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."

"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."

"Sometimes, it gives me static when integrating Windows-based systems. It should produce a precise log of sorts as to where the problem is. For example, a few days ago because of the McAfee application firewall, I couldn't get access to the particular Windows machine. So, my team and I had to figure out by ourselves that there was a virus responsible for the obstacle. This solution should trigger a meaningful log or message indicating the reason the user or implementer can't get into the machine."

"Its technical support could be better."

"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."

"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is an open source product."

"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."

"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 are on an annual license for the use of the solution."

"The NetWitness Platform may be affordable only for enterprise-level customers, as it may not be within the budget of small and medium-sized businesses."

"It is cheap."

"Compared to the competition, the is price is not that high."

"Our license is for one year."

"Many clients are not able to purchase the packet capability because there is a huge amount of data, and the cost depends on the number of EPS (Events per second), as well as the number of gigabytes of data per day."

"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."

"We have yearly licensing costs. The license fee can be based on the volume of EPS. Some organizations may have, as a gentlemanly gesture, 10,000 EPS and get a 3,000 EPS license but actually use 5,000 EPS."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Healthcare Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Insurance Company

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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 NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The product price was reasonable for my region and the market.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

From an improvement perspective, the NetWitness Platform needs to release new features and improve in areas like log correlation. The tool needs to have easier integrations with the cloud. Building...

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Also Known As

Logz

RSA Security Analytics

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

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

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

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