Logz.io vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs comparison

"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 tool to track the dev and production environment."

"The tool is simple to setup where it is just plug and play. The tool is reliable and we never had any performance issues."

"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."

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

"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."

"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."

"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."

"The most valuable features are log centralization and long-term retention for logs."

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

"The events are notably more descriptive, aiding in security and event analysis. We've also integrated Sky Collector, providing valuable insights and solutions for troubleshooting."

"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."

"The ability to narrow into a specific time to filter heavy hitters and anomalies is extremely valuable."

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

"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."

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

"The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective."

"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."

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

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

"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."

"The tool could be cheaper."

"The tool is expensive."

"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."

"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."

"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."

"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."

"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."

"The product is a little expensive."

"The product's pricing is cheaper than other solutions."

"The tool is an open source product."

"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."

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

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

"It is not cheap. But it is worth it."

"The pricing has been updated recently."

"I think it is a reasonably priced product."

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

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

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