Log Management, part of Alert Logic Professional vs Nagios Log Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Alert Logic is ideally placed to support and protect cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS hosted services. It is less appropriate for platform as a service as this would be addressed by the provider in question. It would also be ideally suited to on-premise and hybrid cloud scenarios to protect services from attacks and breaches.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Nagios Log Server facilitates the ability to search all entries of logs in a quick and easy way. Beyond that, it has allowed us to configure alerts for notification when there are potential threats (may they be security threats or only application-side problems), and to filter the data for audits and compliance.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Alert Logic provides very technical solutions to address security risks. However much of the benefit is from a human level understanding of the threats seen.
As a company, they are profiling thousands of companies and are better able to predict threats such as denial of service attacks and warn organisations ahead of time.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Log auditing.
Server monitoring.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Overall the product and service works well and addresses all our key requirements so we have no real negatives to share.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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A bit hard to install and configure.
High price.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

No score

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Nagios Log Server 9.0

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Nagios support is decent. Nothing bad to say about them, but nothing extraordinary too. We mostly asked them questions instead of actively asking them to change or fix things for us. The response time is OK, commonly you can get a response in the same day. You can also call, but they are available only during US office hours.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

There are alternatives some of which have a greater overhead and require more in-house technical skills. Alert Logic provide a full service so for us this was a better solution.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Windows Event Log doesn't have 10% of the capabilities of Nagios Log Server. No real-time alerts, no scheduling, no external plugins or APIs. Nothing. The only advantage is that it is a native Windows application.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Return on Investment is measured in how protected our reputation is and Alert Logic contributes to this is a large way.
Alert Logic provides excellent information security assurance to the business and allows us to feel more proactive.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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We could react in way less time to a lot of potential outages since we started using it.

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Gabriel Krahn

Systems Engineer

T-SystemsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Log Management, part of Alert Logic Professional Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Nagios Log Server Editions & Modules

Edition

1 Instance	$3,995
3 Instances	$5,995
10 Instances	$14,995

Additional Pricing Details

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