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    IBM Security QRadar Log Insights

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Security® QRadar® Log Insights helps users gain complete over a company's growing digital footprint. It is designed to address security observability needs with simple data ingestion, rapid search and visualizations. QRadar Log Insights extracts, investigates and pull sdata from anywhere, and it can perform multiple, concurrent searches on large data subsets in seconds. Its interactive dashboards and analytics help users to detect, investigate and plan action against threats faster.N/A

    Splunk Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

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    IBM Security QRadar Log InsightsSplunk Cloud PlatformSumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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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 feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
    IBM
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    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    I have selected Splunk Cloud because Sumo Logic is blown away by Splunk Cloud. It's a night and day difference. My experience with Splunk Cloud is faster and more reliable. It consists of more features than Sumo Logic.
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    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    Splunk Cloud blows Sumo Logic out of the water. The experience is night and day. We went from several highly stressed IT security professionals who were unsure if the data they were getting was valuable, to very happy IT security professionals who can now be more proactive and …
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    Sumo Logic
    Chose Sumo Logic
    Sumo hits the right balance between the high price of Splunk and the reduced features and usabilty of cheaper competitors like Graylog and Humio
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    Chose Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when …
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    Chose Sumo Logic
    We felt the features were comparable and Sumo Logic offered a better price. This was our first log aggregation tool so we don't have a lot of insight for competing products. I speak with many others specifically regarding Splunk and it seems to be comparable in many ways except …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    IBM Security QRadar Log InsightsSplunk Cloud PlatformSumo Logic
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of IBM Security QRadar Log Insights and Splunk Cloud Platform and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    IBM Security QRadar Log Insights
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    Ratings
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Sumo Logic
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    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.419 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings7.718 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings8.920 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.711 Ratings00 Ratings
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    SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
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    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    IBM Security QRadar Log InsightsSplunk Cloud PlatformSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Pros
    IBM
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    Cisco
    • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
    • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
    • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    IBM
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    Cisco
    • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
    • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
    • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
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    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
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    Sumo Logic
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    Usability
    IBM
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    Cisco
    Splunk AI Assistant for SPL is good tool, as I said, it is really useful for educational purpose, taking in its hands small and simple tasks (ex:small query dashboard,...), but it's not a ten because the contextual memory for complex issues/dashboarding/reports etc can be limited, and can sometime suggets none optimized query which are not always checked by teammates and can cause issue on the long term.
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
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    Cisco
    Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
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    Cisco
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    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
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    Cisco
    Vs elastic: - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead - Splunk Cloud Platform's detection engineering more mature vs Sentinel: - SPL more powerful than KQL for custom analytics - Better cross-platform visibility (non-Azure environments) vs Datadog - SPL enables deeper forensic Investigations - Superior compliance/audit capabilities
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Professional Services
    IBM
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    Cisco
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    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
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    Cisco
    • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
    • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
    • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
    • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
    • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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