We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Graylog based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Graylog stands out with its exceptional search functions, seamless integration with Elasticsearch, and real-time data access. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience. Graylog could benefit from additional customization options and an improved rule-creation process.
Service and Support: Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays. Graylog's customer service is generally well-regarded, with reviewers noting effective solutions and satisfactory experiences. While response times may differ, Graylog's support is considered superior compared to that of other products.
Ease of Deployment: Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists. Some Graylog users said the setup was easy. Other reviewers faced challenges, but these were easily resolved with help from the vendor’s support staff. Graylog is easier to set up in smaller environments, but it could get complicated in large clusters.
Pricing: Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment. Graylog offers an enterprise edition and an open-source option with a daily capacity restriction. Some users said that data costs can be expensive.
ROI: Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support. Graylog can offer some cost savings. The precise ROI may vary depending on the organization’s size and use case.
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The solution has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"Elastic provides the capability to index quickly due to the reverse indexes it offers. This data is crucial as it contains critical information. The reverse index allows fast data indexing because of Elastic's efficient search engine."
"ELK documentation is very good, so never needed to contact technical support."
"Message forwarding through the in-built module."
"The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"The price of this product could be improved, especially the additional costs. I would also like to see better-quality graphics."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"We'd like better premium support."
"I would like to see a date and time in the Graylog Grok patterns so that I can save time when searching for a log. I like how the streams and the search query work, but adding a date and time will allow me to pull out a log in a milli-second."
"I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."
"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."
"Graylog could improve the process of creating rules. We have to create them manually by doing parses and applying them. Other SIEM solutions have basic rules and you can create and get more events of interest."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Graylog is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Graylog writes "Great detailed search features and easy Java integration, but needs improvement in integration with Python". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and VMware Aria Operations for Logs, whereas Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Elastic Security vs. Graylog report.
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