LogPoint vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LogPoint
Score 4.3 out of 10
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LogPoint detects, analyzes and responds to threats within an organization’s data for faster security investigations. LogPoint is dedicated to helping overloaded security analysts work more efficiently with accelerated detection and response. LogPoint's SIEM solution with UEBA provides…N/A
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Top Pros
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Features
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
LogPoint
6.3
5 Ratings
21% below category average
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
8.9
18 Ratings
14% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection8.25 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Correlation8.04 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management8.35 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Deployment flexibility6.55 Ratings10.018 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools6.23 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces7.65 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection7.33 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Data integration/API management4.51 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation3.61 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching2.71 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
LogPointSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(5 ratings)
8.0
(46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Usability
6.8
(4 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(4 ratings)
7.5
(17 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LogPointSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend
LogPoint
LogPoint is incredibly useful for pulling information from various log sources and combining them together to offer insights into suspicious or potentially malicious behaviour. It is not intuitive and can take some time to get used to. Once you're up and running though, it's easy to onboard new log sources. Search queries can again be tough to get used to, but LogPoint support is really helpful and can offer assistance with writing more complex searches.
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SolarWinds
Optimal for SolarWinds Security Event Manager needs for smaller companies - it is a very cool product but has some limitations around EPS (which gets chewed up quickly if you're doing it the right way & adding servers/storage/FW & other network devices)... Also pricing model is GREAT (not consumption-based, which is the greatest grift the SIEM industry has created).
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Pros
LogPoint
  • Technical support team is fast and competent
  • License management and cost
  • Log parsing
  • New logs can be provided to the support team for parser creation
  • High Availability architecture does not cost more
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SolarWinds
  • It does a great job of notifying us when accounts have been locked out. We can then find out the device on the network where the login attempt occurred.
  • Searching for incidents is now a lot faster with the implementation of the HTML 5 interface.
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Cons
LogPoint
  • Providing a full Cloud solution
  • Having more documentation for complex deployment
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SolarWinds
  • All SolarWinds product suffer from slow response times in management portals. SolarWinds SEM is no exception. While it is much preferred over a "thick client" there is much room for improvement in speed.
  • If you use the email alert features with SolarWinds make sure to prepare you staff and team for the large amount of emails they could receive. Make sure to reduce the number of alerts so your team does not ignore the alerts.
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Likelihood to Renew
LogPoint
We are confident with the solution and we are using it daily
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SolarWinds
It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM
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Usability
LogPoint
Overall, LogPoint is pretty easy to get started with but faces issues with specific things (syslog on custom ports, script log collection, etc.).
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SolarWinds
If you are familiar with SolarWinds then you can use this product it's as easy as that. If you have never used a SolarWinds product then it will take a minute to get how they do reports and make dashboards but that being said the tool is great and can make things very easy once you get a feel for how it works and get everything setup how you like it.
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Support Rating
LogPoint
LogPoint support is outstanding. They are incredibly helpful, and on occasions have proactively identified issues with our setup, and logged cases on our behalf before we had even noticed there was a problem. If there is a search we need to write that is beyond our skills, LogPoint support can typically write it for us within a couple of days. They are always very responsive, and I am yet to have a bad support experience.
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SolarWinds
The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material.
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In-Person Training
LogPoint
Really nice person with huge skills on LogPoint
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SolarWinds
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Alternatives Considered
LogPoint
LogPoint is easier to implement and less expensive.
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SolarWinds
Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable.
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Professional Services
LogPoint
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SolarWinds
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Return on Investment
LogPoint
  • Keep the same team to manage more IT resources
  • Having a better logs visibility
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SolarWinds
  • For the price, it produced a decent value. It did a lot of the easy stuff well. I can't give any specific data given the objective of the product was to monitor very basic events in the environment.
  • There are free options that can do a better job.
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ScreenShots

LogPoint Screenshots

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