Huntress vs. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

Huntress

Huntress

42 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

44 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Huntress	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Huntress is a security platform that surfaces hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The platform helps IT resellers protect their customers from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.	N/A
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Solarwinds® Kiwi Syslog® Server is a syslog management tool for network and systems engineers. It receives syslog messages and SNMP traps from network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.), and Linux®/Unix® hosts. Users can filter and view these messages based on time, hostname, severity, etc., and set up custom alerts. Kiwi Syslog Server has built-in actions to react appropriately to syslog messages. There are also log archival and clean-up features to help comply with security policies.	$319 Per Instance

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Huntress

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

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One Time Price: $319.00
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Huntress	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Community Pulse
	Huntress	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Considered Both Products	Huntress Lucas Burnett Sales Director Chose Huntress Not only is Huntress a better product from a usability standpoint, its also lighter on system resources and support is second to none Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Huntress Basically we went with Huntress because of simplicity and reputation. We still use ESET for AV but felt their EDR product was reactionary to Huntress existing, rather than a particularly well thought out product. In my experience, Sophos is just too buggy in everything they do. … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Brewster Chief Technology Officer Chose Huntress Easier to add and remove the agent from PCs. In our experience, others are horrendous to try to remove when a customer leaves. The UI is superior through its simplicity. For us, deployment was also much easier than BlackPoint or SentinelOne. Webroot was easy to install, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Huntress Huntress understands the needs of their partners in regards to need a solid solution, actionable items when threats hit, a SOC team that is able to intelligently respond, while also maintaining reasonable costs. Huntress checked all the boxes that we needed from competing … Incentivized Helpful? Brady Phenicie Ownr Chose Huntress We have walked away from Webroot. To many issues with Apple devices. No help from support. Incentivized Helpful? WP William Press Cloud Project Manager Chose Huntress Carbon Black was much more expensive and had a bit more buy-in than we were able to sell companies on. The portal was not as simplified. The services are similar in execution, and we did not find Carbon Black lacking, but Huntress is easy to use, easy to deploy, and a better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Huntress To be honest, I haven't run into anything like Huntress. It's not a threat protection platform and it doesn't simply look for configuration changes. It is a unique product that starts with searching for footholds and grew into educating the user base on what cybersecurity is … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Loehr EVP Chose Huntress This is a difficult question because Huntress really doesn't compete with other products per se. There are EDR products that tout the same capabilities as Huntress, so if you were to compare just those features, you would still see Huntress as a winner because they are … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Quimby VP & CTO Chose Huntress Pre-EDR Huntress is really unique in what it does. It is hard to directly compare that against anything since it is changed based Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Huntress Huntress identified fileless malware that was not detected by ESET Antivirus and a KMS activation bypass that was installed on a server. Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Murphy Information Technology Security Manager Chose Huntress Huntress may not be a complete SOC such as Blackpoint, but the level of protection is close. Huntress provides a set of human eyes always hunting for persistent threats on your endpoints. Huntress also seems less noisy with no false positives, so no time is wasted reviewing … Incentivized Helpful? DW David Westgate CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Huntress Firstly from a business model, [VMware] Carbon Black [Cloud Managed Detection] was not outfitted for the MSP where Huntress is very MSP-friendly from an affordably easy point to entry to value for money licensing. Carbon Black TS is not bad in anyway, well, that we found, but … Incentivized Helpful? DD Daniel Diaz IT Manager Chose Huntress Artic Wolf offers a superior service with dedicated resources and personalized service. This is offered at a premium price and we decided not to invest very heavily in this type of service yet. We don't need a dedicated team with intimate knowledge of our business at this time. … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server We have not checked other product and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is best Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server Syslog-ng don't have customer support or technical support .But its a free software and no clarity on limitations ingestion bandwidth. No gui feature and everything should be done from backend. Gui can easily help to start and stop service ,easy to configure. Unlimited … Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Mujeeb Assistant Manager IT Infrastructure Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server PRTG Network Monitor does not give enough reporting and visibility as SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server provides. PRTG Network Monitor Syslog is just a sensor but SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server has separate applications which are very useful. Incentivized Helpful? DC Dennis Chwee Senior Network Engineer Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog is a bare-bones Syslog Server. It doesn't have the advanced features of Splunk and SolarWinds Log Analyzer such as alerting, log analysis, event correlation, etc. However, if you're an SMB and just need a solution to fulfill a security requirement, then … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server PRTG is a great package and very useful, but the jump from the free 100 sensor price model to the first tier of the paid model is WAY too expensive. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is very inexpensive and provides us with the results we needed for log monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server Our group already had a license for the Orion Syslog server that comes bundled with Orion NPM, but it didn't quite meet our requirements for performance. Elasticsearch and Graylog easily met our performance requirements, but not enough team members were able to manage the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server I've not had any other interaction with other Syslog servers. The main reason for that is that Kiwi works outstandingly well at what it does. Simply put, I believe this product is a staple in the IT industry and will remain as such as long as they keep the tool current and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server The price for Kiwi was acceptable and it checked off all the boxes of a product that we needed. I also considered Graylog but Kiwi was much easier to configure. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Huntress	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Huntress	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
Likelihood to Recommend	A great product that highlights any and all persistent footholds on the network and does a great job on breach monitoring. The support staff are great, efficient, and are able to reach out when there is an issue. Most problems are cleared out/mitigated before we even know about them. A great product to add to your security stack. DW David Westgate CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review	The SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server does what it's supposed to do. It's a bare-bones Syslog Server. If your company is just trying to fulfill security requirements or doesn't need all the advanced features of a product such as Splunk, then Kiwi will work well and not break the bank. Using the tool is very straightforward as there aren't a lot of options outside of just viewing logs. Incentivized DC Dennis Chwee Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Pros	Using the latest industry knowledge of threats that have been ongoing, but not previously known and projecting it back in time against their installed endpoints to identify machines that are vulnerable or breached and when it these events occurred Very quiet. If they alert, it is a thing. Very good at remediation. They communicate extremely well when it matters. While there are the most extensive products more often than not they are the first to alert us to a threat. Incentivized Scott Quimby VP & CTO Read full review	Collection of SNMP traps a reliable and stable collection server for these is crucial to troubleshooting and time to ROS. Kiwi excels at this. Easy to install set up and train users on. The free version is a good free tool and handy to use for personal labs and other smalle use cases. SNMP traps to user readable format is great, sometimes syslog and smnp messages can be hard to interpret and read with out a knowledge of how to do this. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Now that they have EDR capability, they need to fully participate in MITRE testing for direct comparison against other EDR products. Now that they are going into Managed Antivirus and EDR with isolation capabilities they need to update their SLA comparative to other vendors Support for non-Windows OSes for consistency in a network It would be nice to seed canary files in custom shares on servers. Incentivized Scott Quimby VP & CTO Read full review	Minimalistic; If you're looking for something with analysis features look elsewhere. Operating System support is Windows only. Some management features cannot be configured via web interface. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	We dropped SentinelOne in favor of Huntress because the UI was much more simplistic for the tier 1 techs to maintain. It beats the old web design model of three clicks to where you want to go. It is very intuitive. No one needs training to figure out how to navigate its console. Incentivized Scott Brewster Chief Technology Officer Read full review	Kiwi Syslog has the best usability of any syslog server. While not being able to offer the most features, the ones it does have are intuitive and easy to work with. Everything that it has is where you think it should be. If you can't find it in the menus, it doesn't exist. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Because the solution is so simple to use and implement, support wasn't very necessary. The one time I did call them to better understand where logs were stored, they were very helpful and friendly. Kiwi has been around for some time and not a lot has changed over the years, so support for it is pretty straightforward and quick. Incentivized DC Dennis Chwee Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Huntress may not be a complete SOC such as Blackpoint, but the level of protection is close. Huntress provides a set of human eyes always hunting for persistent threats on your endpoints. Huntress also seems less noisy with no false positives, so no time is wasted reviewing alerts. Incentivized Trevor Murphy Information Technology Security Manager Read full review	Syslog-ng don't have customer support or technical support .But its a free software and no clarity on limitations ingestion bandwidth. No gui feature and everything should be done from backend. Gui can easily help to start and stop service ,easy to configure. Unlimited technical and customer support . Even when server got shutdown will get on-call or immediate support that will helps a lot to resolve errors Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	We have been able to lower operational costs by shifting to Huntress. We've been able to cut costs to our clients by utilizing Huntress over competing products. In spite of inflation, we've been able to keep our managed service prices at a steady, below market rate, because of Huntress. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server has made it easier for me to monitor events on all of my network devices and servers. As a small business, we needed something powerful but inexpensive and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is exactly that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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