Syslog-ng and Microsoft Purview Audit compete in log management and auditing, with Microsoft Purview Audit generally seen as more advantageous due to its robust features and integration with Microsoft products.
Features:Syslog-ng offers flexibility supporting various data sources, multiple data formats, and high adaptability. Microsoft Purview Audit provides thorough data auditing, seamless integration with Microsoft environments, and comprehensive reporting capabilities.
Room for Improvement:Syslog-ng users seek better management tools, advanced analytics, and a user-friendly configuration process. Microsoft Purview Audit users desire improvements in cross-platform compatibility, real-time alerting, and faster feature updates.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Syslog-ng is straightforward to set up but presents challenges in advanced configurations. Microsoft Purview Audit offers intuitive deployment for Microsoft product users, though quicker support response is desired.
Pricing and ROI:Syslog-ng provides a cost-effective solution with low initial expenses and a solid ROI. Microsoft Purview Audit requires higher upfront investment but promises long-term ROI due to extensive integration and a powerful feature set.
The unified auditing functionality in Microsoft 365 provides organizations with visibility into many types of audited activities across many different services in Microsoft 365. Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by increasing audit log retention required to conduct an investigation, providing access to crucial events that help determine scope of compromise, and faster access to Office 365 Management Activity API.
Optimizing SIEM
syslog-ng is the log management solution that improves the performance of your SIEM solution by reducing the amount and improving the quality of data feeding your SIEM.
Rapid search and troubleshooting
With syslog-ng Store Box, you can find the answer. Search billions of logs in seconds using full text queries with Boolean operators to pinpoint critical logs.
Meeting compliance requirements
syslog-ng Store Box provides secure, tamper-proof storage and custom reporting to demonstrate compliance.
Big data ingestion
syslog-ng can deliver data from a wide variety of sources to Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Kafka as well as many others.
Universal log collection and routing
syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management.
Secure data archive
syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.
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