Grafana Loki vs. Rapid7 InsightOps

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.

Incentivized

Rapid7 InsightOps has been able to highlight threats that we have been able to mitigate. It has given us data enriched graphs that can be used by technical staff to assist in strengthening our defenses against cyber threat actors It also has given us data that can be used by nontechnical staff and management for strategic decision making

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Log Consilidation
• Threat Analysis
• Alerting

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Rapid7 InsightOps has much deeper integration and logging capabilities and has made the Rapid7 InsightOpssecurity of our environment an ongoing improvement. We use InsightOps' Search capabilities to discover precise, contextual information about our infrastructure. We have set up automatic notifications when important events happen within our network and domain. Rapid7 InsightOps has allowed us to create Dashboard visualizations based on our data to gain better insight into what is going on.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Dashboards for easy identification of trends and analysis
• Freed up staff time for other duties

Incentivized