CenturyLink Security Log Monitoring (SLM) vs. Grafana Loki

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CenturyLink Security Log Monitoring (SLM)
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CenturyLink® Security Log Monitoring service provides comprehensive security log traffic monitoring using people, technology and processes to analyze security log traffic 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and includes access to a portal for queries, reports, and other service-related activities. This service feeds correlated security events to our CenturyLink Security Operations Center (SOC) with views into customer security threats, risks and events. It integrates with third party…N/A
Grafana Loki
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Grafana Logs (powered by Loki) brings together logs from applications and infrastructure in a single place. By using the exact same service discovery and label model as Prometheus, Grafana Logs can systematically guarantee logs have consistent metadata with metrics. Grafana Logs lets users send logs in any format, from any source so it’s easy to add to existing infrastructure and get up and running quickly. Leverage a wide array of clients for shipping logs like…
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Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
CenturyLink Security Log Monitoring (SLM)Grafana Loki
Likelihood to Recommend
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
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Grafana Labs
In our application there are many points from where logs are coming so in order to go to each and every application and check logs its very overhead so we are using Grafana Loki for the logs gathering and monitoring.
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Pros
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
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Grafana Labs
  • Access to many open-source dashboards, access to add many data-sources to gather and visualize data from.
  • Grafana Loki does well gathering of logs from various data-sources, we can also filter the logs based on our needs.
  • One stop solution for all the logs and monitoring.
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Cons
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
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Grafana Labs
  • We can modify the logs directly from UI of Grafana Loki
  • Better and simplified options for logs filtering
  • Easy usability with SMTP configuration and other system level configuration
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Alternatives Considered
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
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Grafana Labs
First and foremost if Grafana Loki is based on CNCF open source projects so organizations can get freedom to choice to configure it at your own other main thing is Grafana Loki is totally free of cost and we can deploy it on our infrastructure. On compared with other managed services like Datadog, New Relic it is very expensive and we also don't have much control on the tools we use.
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Return on Investment
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
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Grafana Labs
  • Only indexes the metadata
  • Have to manage it by ourselves compare to other available managed monitoring and log observability solutions
  • Dedicated person or team of SRE to manage the monitoring and observability solutions
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