SolarWinds Loggly vs. Microsoft Sentinel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Loggly
Score 7.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Loggly is a cloud-based log management service provider. It does not require the use of proprietary software agents to collect log data. The service uses open source technologies, including ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene 4 and Apache Kafka.
$79
per month/billed annually
Microsoft Sentinel
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.
$2.46
per GB ingested
Pricing
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Editions & Modules
Standard
$79
per month/billed annually
Pro
$159
per month/billed annually
Enterprise
$279
per month/billed annually
Azure Sentinel
$2.46
per GB ingested
100 GB per day
$123.00
per day
200 GB per day
$221.40
per day
300 GB per day
$319.80
per day
400 GB per day
$410.00
per day
500 GB per day
$492.00
per day
More than 500 GB per day
$492.00 + $98.40
per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree trial for Standard and Pro plans for 14 days with all features.
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Community Pulse
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Top Pros
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Features
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Loggly
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Ratings
Microsoft Sentinel
7.6
26 Ratings
2% below category average
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.326 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings7.326 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings7.426 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.625 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings7.325 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings7.326 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings6.423 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings7.024 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.122 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
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User Ratings
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(48 ratings)
8.4
(45 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.5
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(7 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
7.4
(7 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds LogglyMicrosoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
SolarWinds Loggly is great for capturing and organizing logs from 3rd party sources such as NGINX. Without SolarWinds Loggly it's really difficult to manage the logs overtime, find traffic patterns, and identify issues before they become a problem. Anyone who is routinely searching through massive log files could quickly benefit from the SolarWinds Loggly and it's capabilities.
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Microsoft
I'll go with where it's very suited in certain industries, including ours where the data resides or where it's being sent is incredibly important. So because the data stays within Microsoft World Garden, we are able to piggyback off of a lot of those certifications and meet certain requirements that allow us to expand where we sell our product to outside of scopes that we couldn't reach ourselves.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • 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.
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Microsoft
  • It is a good tool for threat detection and analysis of the threats. We are using this tool for real time threat detection on our employee machines as well as some servers.
  • It provides various options for collecting data sources by leveraging multiple sources using data connectors. This helps us in gathering data from multiple sources such as our servers as well as our employee machines.
  • One good thing about this tool is automated incident response thereby increasing the security of servers.
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • Not all searches are intuitive.
  • We have to use a log aggregating device to ship our logs to Loggly as our network devices can not connect on an encrypted protocol. I would prefer if we could use some sort of VPN-based connector to ship logs securely.
  • Sometimes when drilled down, it can be difficult to fully reset a search term to back all the way out of a drill down.
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Microsoft
  • 'Notebook' has always been a very hard to use feature for me in Sentinel. From my experience, there have been a very selective use cases for this feature across the industry.
  • 'Entity Behavior' has some scope to be improved further since it is a feature that gives some useful insights but needs to be accessed separately. I think it should be re-worked in a way to be used within the incident investigation page.
  • I'd like to see a more user-friendly version of the 'Content Hub' menu which was the earlier version! The new UI is somewhat confusing to use and is dependent on a lot of filters being applied which do not even lasts for a single session. With each refresh, we have to apply the filters again.
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
Management is not open to having an agent sending the data to the cloud instance.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Usability
SolarWinds
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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Microsoft
The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
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.
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Microsoft
Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds
It has good architecture, which focus on ese of use.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
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.
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Microsoft
I use most of the Sims that are out there, but RSAs, old Sim Log, logic, elastic, a lot of them. Sumo, we checked out Sumo too. We're a Microsoft shop and live almost entirely on top of a Microsoft ecosystem. We are considering other Microsoft security products to integrate with it. So it made a lot of sense to really drive as hard as we could Microsoft Sim at least for a few years to make sure it would fit us.
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Professional Services
SolarWinds
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Did not use professional services
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Unfortunately, we hit our logging cap on a weekly basis and we lose logs after that.
  • We have lost logs after hitting the maximum during service outages. We have become accustomed to not being able to rely on having them, then things go poorly.
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Microsoft
  • Log Management is a little difficult in-house as everything is situated on the cloud.
  • Paying according to the throughput of the data can be costlier for some organizations.
  • Excellent integration and log parsing for Microsoft products save many man-hours for the SIEM admin to focus on other things.
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