Rapid7 InsightOps vs. SolarWinds Papertrail

Rapid7 InsightOps has been able to highlight threats that we have been able to mitigate. It has given us data enriched graphs that can be used by technical staff to assist in strengthening our defenses against cyber threat actors It also has given us data that can be used by nontechnical staff and management for strategic decision making

Incentivized

SolarWinds Papertrail is great if you have multiple separate applications and you want to be able to view and search all the logs in one place. It also works well for alerts based on certain keywords in log entries (for example, ERROR, WARN, etc.) Since only the first four weeks of logs are searchable in Papertrail, it may not work well for use-cases where much older log entries need to remain searchable.

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• Log Consilidation
• Threat Analysis
• Alerting

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• Collects logs from many sources in real time.
• Makes it really easy to filter logs to dig into the logs of many services working simultaneously.
• Alerts triggered on certain search matches.

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• The CLI was a bit clunky and required some Linux-y thought to get right (obviously more designed with scripting in mind)
• Tracking logs in real time (think something like `tail`) wasn't wildly intuitive
• Accessing/searching archives required a lot of CLI-style pulling/extracting/reg-exing

Incentivized

We are definitely going to continue using Papertrail. It's been a lifesaver.

Incentivized

It's extremely easy to use. I and new colleagues have never had any issues configuring this tool or setting it up, it works almost out of the box with very simple instructions to follow to configure it to our own environment. I would highly recommend it on that ability alone.

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I honestly have never had the need to use the support team, as we have not run into any issues so far. If we did however, judging from how the tool itself works, I don't doubt that the team would provide excellent support for any issues that we may possibly run into.

Incentivized

Rapid7 InsightOps has much deeper integration and logging capabilities and has made the Rapid7 InsightOpssecurity of our environment an ongoing improvement. We use InsightOps' Search capabilities to discover precise, contextual information about our infrastructure. We have set up automatic notifications when important events happen within our network and domain. Rapid7 InsightOps has allowed us to create Dashboard visualizations based on our data to gain better insight into what is going on.

Incentivized

I selected SolarWinds Papertrail because it was cheap and already provided precisely the integration surface required by the Heroku stack. It probably provided the least number of 'useful' features (out of the bunch) due to the nature of my logs and the post-mortem updates that were required to make them usable.

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• Dashboards for easy identification of trends and analysis
• Freed up staff time for other duties

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• We are alarmed properly so it makes it easy for us to monitor the server.
• Very easy to debug our apps when something's gone wrong (bug) in the production server.
• Noticed whenever any third party scan was going on our server.

Incentivized