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Loggly vs SolarWinds Log & Event Manager

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When comparing Loggly vs SolarWinds Log & Event Manager, the Slant community recommends Loggly for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Loggly is ranked 6th while SolarWinds Log & Event Manager is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Loggly is:

[Unlike Airbrake](https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake-js/issues/82), you don't have to add try/catch blocks to automatically capture JavaScript errors.

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Pros

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Automatically captures JavaScript errors

Unlike Airbrake, you don't have to add try/catch blocks to automatically capture JavaScript errors.

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Hosted on a CDN already

Unlike Airbrake or LogEntries, you can download the library from GitHub and concatenate/minify it along with your other JS, or you can use it directly from Loggly's CDN.

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Supports raw text, syslogs, and JSON

Raw text, syslogs, and JSON can be fed to Loggly.

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Easy to set up

You only have to set up a HTTP JSON input and there are community examples to guide you.

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Has custom search for in-depth log analysis

The in-depth, custom search helps you search by IP addresses, user names, etc, enabling faster root cause analysis when troubleshooting network, system, application and database issues.

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Peripheral security for enhanced visibility into malicious activities

All-in-one security solution that includes file integrity monitoring (zero-day malware& APT detection), SQL Auditor and USB detection

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Active response to detect and respond to threats in real-time

Automated response to events, like deleting user account, sending warning messages, kill processes, log off user, adding user to privileged account groups, etc

Pro
Reduced costs with straight-forward licensing

Licensed by nodes (not log volume). No add-on purchases, DBA or expensive consultant support required. Extensive number of free connectors. Reduces SIEM management, training and operational overhead for resource-sensitive security departments.

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Automated industry-standard rules and reports to meet compliance and audit requirements

Demonstrate compliance and meet audit requirements with out of the box compliance reports for HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, DISA STIG and many more. Beyond SIEM monitoring and remediation capabilities, Log & Event Manager includes stronger security and broader compliance capabilities – like, SQL Auditor, File Integrity Monitoring, Active Response and USB Defender.

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Intuitive interface

Graphical Web UI with easy to read customizable dashboards, and search functionality to find the right information among thousands of logs. Log data and events are represented in bar graphs, with respect to time, and you can easily drill down to the specific system or node that's generating excessive or suspicious traffic.

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Centralized threat detection improves security incident awareness

Real-time, in-memory event correlations, based on built-in and custom rules, for instantaneous detection of unauthorized application/user-activity, database, configuration changes and suspicious network traffic

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Cons

Con
Expensive

Loggly QUICKLY overflows the 200mb daily free allowance.

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Difficult to setup

Setup is not easy, the whole process is disjointed, with open source libraries that regularly change and out of date installation instructions.

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The UI is confusing

The UI is very difficult to use, but it does offer a lot of features.

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Timestamps are in UTC in the UI, and can't be converted

Loggly shows all timestamps in UTC, and the bookmarklet that's supposed to convert them to local time doesn't work.

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JavaScript tracker has removed tag support

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Linux agent don't manage to read logs

Linux agent made do not manage to read system logs which are in the default format which LEM is supposed to manage and also the installer seems to mess up the system during install as it assumes you are using a sysv like init system.