When comparing Cloudlytics vs SolarWinds Log & Event Manager, the Slant community recommends Cloudlytics for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Cloudlytics is ranked 16th while SolarWinds Log & Event Manager is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Cloudlytics is:
CloudFront analytics allows tracking what content is accessed and organize requests based on origin, amount, data transfered, OS/device/browser used, time, etc.
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Pros
Pro Traffic analysis is provided using CloudFront logs
CloudFront analytics allows tracking what content is accessed and organize requests based on origin, amount, data transfered, OS/device/browser used, time, etc.
Pro Allows analyzing CloudTrail's API calls
Cloudlytics can be used to analyze CloutTrail's API calls to understand the geographical origin of requests and identifying unauthorized access attempts.
Pro Helps manage expenditure
Provides tools for analyzing bills.
Can schedule turning EC2 instances on and off to optimize resource cost.
Allows setting expenditure threshold values that will trigger an alert if a bill of a service has consumed 80%, 100% or more of set threshold.
Pro Provides AWS ELB insights
Cloudlytics provides insight into requests made to load balancer, including average response time, request path, server responses and client IP addresses.
Pro Allows scheduling when certain EC2 instances should be turned on or off
Usage of development and test environments can be optimized via scheduler. EC2 instances can be turned off when not needed.
Pro A free trial is available
The free trial lasts a month and allows uploading 200 MB of logs.
Pro Comprehensive log analytics solution for AWS Cloud
Cloudlytics can gather logs from Amazon's S3, CloudFront, CloudTrail and ELB services and provide insight into access patterns, API calls, requests made to load balancer as well as identify unauthorized access attempts, spam attacks, and help manage expenditure.
Pro AWS cloud audit allows identifying unauthorized access attempts
Cloud audit can be turned on via CloudTrail. It allows identifying unauthorized access attempts, IP addresses and request statuses.
Pro Allows identifying spam requests
Spam Reports can be used to identify possible spam requests and the IP address making them.
Pro Custom reports
Custom reports can be used to get insights for specific needs. For example, it's possible to add filters for parameters like edge locations, status, URL query etc. on various available fields like total requests, edge result type.
Pro 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.
Pro 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
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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
Cons
Con No Free Plan
Only 200 MBs are free for just the 1st month.
Con AWS services only
Highly focussed on AWS Cloud & if you are looking for analytics about your Cloud Infrastructure then this is your go to SaaS tool
Con 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.
Con Bad UI
UI is confusing and difficult to find the information from the logs which you are looking for
Con Windows only
SolarWinds Log & Event Manager only works on Windows.