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Likelihood to Recommend
AlienVault USM
At this point I'm saying a 4. While the marketing material make it appear to be easy to use and it was relatively easy to set up, as previously mentioned, each event description is based upon the individual asset making it nearly impossible for the administrator to be a SME for each asset. For example, if one of the assets reporting is a router, the administrator monitoring alerts would need to know what the various events are that can be triggered as an event for the particular router; however, if the asset is a workstation, the administrator would need to know the various events that are triggered for workstations.

Verified User
Manager in Other
Legal Services Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
It is well suited to very large volumes of logs where the immediate past is the area of interest, e.g. in situations where the issues are in the recent past. Loggly makes it very easy to search for particular terms of interest, within a specific time frame across the entire estate of devices or, indeed, within a subset, or on a specific device of interest. There does seem to be a short delay in the logs though, even with the "live tail" feature, Loggly might be less suited to "emerging" situations where the issues are occurring in real time.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Host Ireland Business BroadbandTelecommunications, 11-50 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
AlienVault USM
7.2
SolarWinds Loggly
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Centralized event and log data collection
AlienVault USM
7.1
SolarWinds Loggly
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Correlation
AlienVault USM
7.7
SolarWinds Loggly
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Event and log normalization
AlienVault USM
7.7
SolarWinds Loggly
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Deployment flexibility
AlienVault USM
6.7
SolarWinds Loggly
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Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools
AlienVault USM
6.9
SolarWinds Loggly
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Custom dashboards and views
AlienVault USM
6.9
SolarWinds Loggly
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Host and network-based intrusion detection
AlienVault USM
7.7
SolarWinds Loggly
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Pros
AlienVault USM
- AlienVault USM is simple and easy to deploy. Sensors can be deployed in as little as 15 minutes through the setup wizard.
- The USM UI is easy to understand. I've trained multiple analysts who are able to perform their duties on their first day, in part because of USM Anywhere's ease of use.
- Top-notch built-in compliance templates and reporting features.
Tier II SOC Analyst
Rendition Infosec LLCInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
SolarWinds Loggly
- Putting our logs in one place and making them searchable. We use AWS, and CloudWatch has always been a little frustrating in this regard (though it has gotten better recently).
- Deriving metrics from our logs. I think log-based metrics is such a good idea because your logs are the ultimate source for truth in regards to what the hell is going on inside your app. I have really loved the simplicity with which I can just count certain statements and call that a metric because just through the normal course of development certain log statements just naturally become a straightforward recording of an event having occurred.
- Alerts. I actually have a few complaints about email alerts, but just the way I was able to set them up so easily has been huge. Since we started using Loggly, there have been at least 3 bugs that Loggly exposed that were frankly very bad. And withoutt Loggly or without a user reporting them, we would have never known they were happening! This is stuff I tried to set up in CloudWatch in various ways, but because of my own ignorance or perhaps the complexity/limitations of CloudWatch (or the complexity of my stack?), I wasn't getting the information that I needed until I was able to just tell Loggly to send me an email whenever the word "error" showed up.
VP of Engineering
ZolTrainInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
AlienVault USM
- Personally, I've wished I could purchase a service that would configure AV for my environment. I get a lot of traffic on a daily basis and I almost need to hire an analyst that just works on AV.
- Some of the filters when looking for a specific alert aren't that easy to use.
System Administrator
Enthought, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
SolarWinds Loggly
- Once the logging limit is exceeded, there are no logs period. Unexpectedly noisy logs often correlate with services misbehaving and potentially leading to disruption. An outage is an awful time to lose visibility into the entire system of apps. Some ways to bridge this gap would be appreciated.
- Filtering by tags is not intuitive in the web interface. You may believe that you are performing the same search and filter as last time since the tags entered are the same, however, this is often not the case. The reliable way to know that you have the same filter is to bookmark the URL. This lack of ease in usability results in devs using Loggly less than they could and implementing logs less effectively during development time (since they don't consider themselves likely to view them anyway).
- Would like to see a way to onboard our less experienced devs to using Loggly effectively.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 201-500 employeesLikelihood to Renew
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 6.5
Based on 19 answers
The centralized logging and retention for PCI compliance was our main driver, and it is meeting that need. Otherwise there has been enough frustration with the lack of documentation and the need to customize through the CLI that I would be open to alternatives.
IT Systems Architect
ROTHSTEIN.ioRestaurants, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 4.5
Based on 1 answer
Management is not open to having an agent sending the data to the cloud instance.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 6.9
Based on 35 answers
Once you are able to navigate the different panels, finding what you need is quite easily. Before getting used it it can be a bit of challenge .Each panel is quite well laid out and the filtering search capabilities are quite strong.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.8
Based on 7 answers
Loggly's easy setup, very good customer support, and intuitive interface make Loggly very easy to use. User access management is also very easy as we can tailor the experience for each of our developers to access the information they need without having to wade through other information. While there was a slight learning curve in how to view the logs the way some specifically wanted, everything was possible and quite easy to do.

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Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employeesReliability and Availability
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 6.4
Based on 3 answers
We do have issues with maintenance on the AlienVault USM as the disk fills up from time to time with other data sources. Sources for scanning logs and net flow data isn't calculated in regular disk maintenance and can easily fill up our disk if we do not keep an eye on it with some custom Nagios plugins. The system does properly trim logging data from logging sources properly.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
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Performance
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 7.3
Based on 3 answers
With the latest release of AlienVault USM overall performance has not been an issue. We have noticed single source events per second does not scale well with the overall system. 2,000eps on a vmware system with a single source produces delays of up to an hour for us. Pages, reporting and even raw log searches are rather quick though.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
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Support Rating
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 7.3
Based on 28 answers
The support we received from alienvault was excellent. They went above and beyond in making sure everything was working as it needed to be. They REALLY want their product implementation to be a success and our security goals be achieved. They are like a member of our security team.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.3
Based on 8 answers
The support team have been great when we have logged tickets or had issues, most of the time it is down to user training, however we have had a couple of bugs that they have been able to iron out for us.
Cloud Specialist
Air Charter Services LTDAirlines/Aviation, 501-1000 employees
In-Person Training
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 4.5
Based on 1 answer
I did not have any experience with "in person" training directly. The free online classes offered for a half a day are based on the actual training offered. These little teasers are very good and well worth your time to learn a few quick and dirty ways of getting more information from your SIEM

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
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Online Training
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 8.5
Based on 6 answers
It was very well organized and helpful in using the product to the fullest extent. The instructor allowed time for folks who were involved with managed services to receive tuning tips in order to better support their customers. In addition, the course materials were automatically updated when the new version came out.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
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Implementation Rating
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 6.4
Based on 39 answers
AlienVault USM was a very simple to implement and get up and running. We started with a trial version and had that up and going within an hour of receiving email instructions from the sales engineer. We never had to contact support to get the system up and going. It was extremely easy to convert over to a full license once we started with a paid version.

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.3
Based on 3 answers
It has good architecture, which focus on ese of use.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
AlienVault USM
Splunk's ES is a paid add-on on top of an already pricey product. Finding a MSSP that supports Splunk and isn't a 6 figure annual commitment seems unlikely. LogRhythm did not have a cloud-based solution when we were considering SIEMs. Fantastic product though and have a good MSSP base.Devo did not have a MSSP partner base when we looked. Their product is fantastic too.AlienVault USM has good partners to choose from as well as an affordable cloud model, that's why we chose it.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Staffing and Recruiting Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
We were using Zabbix. While it is an open-source solution that you can install for free the following things were limitations of the solution. 1) The scale and uptime of the solution are now your own problem. Since we were hosting at AWS this meant we still had a cost of the AWS solution. 2) The product is complicated from a configuration standpoint. In order to get anything meaningful out of it, you had to invest a lot of time and effort.We did consider NewRelic. I have experience with that product and do think that it is a solid alternative. Ultimately experience with the simplicity and speed of deployment with Loggly encouraged me to suggest using this again.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
GraftworxHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees
Scalability
AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM 6.3
Based on 3 answers
The AlienVault USM is not very scalable. Some scalability can be achieved by installing additional sensors, but this only offers 500eps per sensor and is still overall limited by the installation type of VM or physical. We have also noticed the EPS (events per second) is rated overall and not towards a single source. A single source on a very healthy VMware partition tops out at 2,000eps for us, no matter how we configure it. Maybe this is a problem of the 5.2 release?

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
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Return on Investment
AlienVault USM
- Once you hit the 150 asset mark, you have to jump to their unlimited license. There is no middle ground. We were only 10 or so assets above the 150 so we had to chose to either not monitor those assets or pay the price of the upgrade.
- AlienVault brings all the information to one place which makes it much quicker to track down problems.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
- (Positive, actually!) Cost of Acquisition: Loggly is not OpenSource (i.e. Free in this case). Therefore, while you have a cost up front, you have a wealth of support from the people that built it, which can translate into Time savings and/or bringing contractors on-board just for augmentation purposes
- Negative: Loggly covers a lot of the features that other Open Source Projects cover. That being said, it's regulated by supply and demand, and thus it has a certain "desirability" as a commercial (and therefore stable) project. As a result, unless you are an employee working in a company that sees Loggly as a necessary tool, you will probably not be exposed to it on your own
- (Positive): Tagging of information, and filtering of logs makes this product worthwhile from a commercial perspective: You can train your employees, and have them filtering logs in a day. If they get stuck, you don't have to pull internal resources away to support them, you simply open a ticket with Loggly.

Verified User
Engineer in Corporate
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employeesScreenshots
AlienVault USM
Pricing Details
AlienVault USM
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
AlienVault USM Editions & Modules
Edition
Essentials | $1,0751 |
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Standard | $1,6951 |
Premium | $2,5951 |
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
—SolarWinds Loggly
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
SolarWinds Loggly Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $791 |
---|---|
Pro | $1591 |
Enterprise | $2791 |
- per month/billed annually