AlienVault OSSIM vs Logz.io

Likelihood to Recommend

If this is your first experience with a SIEM, this one can get you started. Take the time to learn the ins and outs of the product and you'll most likely be satisfied with it if your company is an SMB. If you need compliance reports, OSSIM is too small for you, you'll need to go with USM or USM Anywhere.

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Ivan Montilla Miralles

Technical Services

GB Advisors, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Logz.io is an effective solution if your alerting needs are fairly straightforward and you don't need long-term retention of logs with easy access. If being able to maintain easy access to logs longer than this is necessary, another solution might be better. If you need a high degree of precision with alerting triggers and the ability to suppress alerts, you will need to combine Logz.io with an integration to get this or you might consider a different solution.

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AlienVault OSSIM

Logz.io

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization

Deployment flexibility

Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools

Custom dashboards and views

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

Asset discovery. Once installed in a centric, network-accessible server, OSSIM can poll all your endpoints with common protocols (SSH, SNMP, WMI) to detect and discover site-wide assets to monitor. You only need to group them by your own criteria once added to the product.
SIEM Event Correlation. You can define quite complex correlation rules to detect possible suspicious or malicious actions or attempts in your network, in order to categorize them as real threats or as false positives, thus streamlining your risk assessment and management.
Ease of installation. The entire AlienVault OSSIM is self-contained in an ISO file, which can be burned into a DVD or just mounted in your server of choice (physical or virtual) for deployment. The installation process is automated and quote verbosed, with options for static IP, email messaging and others.
Ease of access. Being AlienVault OSSIM a self-contained appliance, it can be accessed via web by any device that supports a web browser, being that desktops, workstation, mobile devices, etc. The OSSIM dashboard and other features are automatically rearranged to adapt to the particular device being in use.

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Jose Quintero

Support Services Manager

GB Advisors, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Well documented and easy to set up.
Their alerting mechanism is really great especially when it comes to application monitoring.
Our data analysis in Kibana is made easy with the solution for Logz.io.
The issue checking and fixing is escalated quickly and is reported in time.

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EBIN ELIAS

Founder CEO

RightVows Job StoreComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The reports are clunky and a bit tedious to parse through.
Sometimes there's so much noise it's hard to tell what a true positive is. There are lots of false ones that trigger alerts but are normal behavior in many environments.

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John Keenan

Director of Information Security

Memorial Hospital of GulfportMedical Practice, 5001-10,000 employees

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Its price can be very high, so you should have good control of it to avoid exaggerated figures.
Some functions can be confusing.
It has limits to create subaccounts, which is a big problem for large companies.

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Hanna Bedoya

Software Developer

iModulesComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Usability

AlienVault OSSIM 8.0

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AlienVault OSSIM is far easy to use and manage - provided you know what you're doing. As any SIEM application, there is some background knowledge required in order to take advantage of the product's functionalities, such as the log correlation and analysis. Other than that, the application is quite usable and robust.

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Jose Quintero

Support Services Manager

GB Advisors, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Logz.io 8.0

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I initially struggled trying to ensure the correct data was returned in the Kibana search, but I found it overall easy to use. Some of the UI is not as seamless as I'd expect, like changing the environment completely resets your search criteria and filters, which is annoying since it's a common use case to search something in multiple environments

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

AlienVault OSSIM 8.0

Based on 4 answers

AlienVault OSSIM support has been very good. I have not had an issue that they were not able to quickly identify and provide a fix for. They are very quick to respond to open cases and are very knowledgeable in the product, which makes troubleshooting issues fast and solutions are provided quickly.

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Laurie Keith

Help Desk Manager

Black Hills Federal Credit UnionBanking, 201-500 employees

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Logz.io 8.5

Based on 2 answers

Their support team is the best in the world! They supported us in most of the critical times and helped to resolve the issue in real time. Also their email support is well maintained and never a mail is missed unanswered. Kudos to the support team of logz.io for maintaining professionalism.

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EBIN ELIAS

Founder CEO

RightVows Job StoreComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Best bang for the buck. Darktrace did not perform even close to AlienVault. I ran them concurrently. AlienVault consistently found issues that Darktrace didn't pick up, and the Darktrace incidents were false positives. At one point, Darktrace stated I had 2,000 servers and I have 112.FortiSIEM is an awesome package but it's more then I need (or can afford). I would need to add staff, for at least the first year or so, just to get it setup and configured correctly.

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Matthew Frederickson

Director of Information Technology

Council Rock School DistrictEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees

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Logz.io is more affordable, less work to maintain, and has more features. It was an easy choice. After my last team had to manage their own ELK stack, this was a no brainer. It helps us be focused on our core competencies.

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John Wessel

Director Of Information Technology & Data Management

Fresh Water SystemsConsumer Goods, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

The only investment here is setting it up and I think seeing it's performance it's a fantastic tool and has a great positive ROI!

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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It has had a positive impact because we can know about and resolve issues with API's before our end users notice.

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Skyler Cain

Software Development Manager

Rent DynamicsReal Estate, 51-200 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

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

Rating Summary

AlienVault OSSIM

Logz.io

AlienVault OSSIM

Logz.io

AlienVault OSSIM

Logz.io

AlienVault OSSIM vs Logz.io