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Devo pros and cons

Vendor: Devo

4.2 out of 5

23 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Devo reduces log analysis time from 40 hours to 5-8 hours with high-speed and scalable capabilities, crucial for security analysis and multinational organizations. Its cloud-native architecture supports data consolidation, but integration with cloud SaaS is limited. While offering powerful querying and log retention for 400 days, the documentation and customization features need improvement. Parsing limitations and a developing Security Operations module affect customer onboarding and data aggregation. Scalability across diverse log sources is an advantage.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Devo allows rapid querying of multiple data sources, enabling faster security analysis and response.

Real-time analytics and high-speed processing improve efficiency in handling security data.

Devo has extensive parsing capabilities, with over 450 parsers to handle various log types.

Devo offers 400 days of data retention, supporting long-term trend analysis and operational insights.

Devo provides a multi-tenant, cloud-native architecture, ideal for global organizations needing data consolidation and separation.

CONS

Documentation needs improvement with better focus on tech writing and updates.

Activeboards' functionality is limited to a single graphics format without customization options.

There is significant room for improvement in parsing different log types, including support for logs from major vendors.

Technical support and agent infrastructure require enhancements for handling large volumes of data.

Security Operations and monitoring capabilities need expansion, particularly in pre-built monitoring applications and dashboard customization.

Devo Pros review quotes

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Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 22, 2025

The drill-down reports capabilities allow analysts to click on any element in a widget. When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.

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CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Aug 2, 2024

It centralizes security management within a business, functioning as a core system for a SOC.

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JB

Security Engineer at Kforce

Oct 7, 2022

The most useful feature for us, because of some of the issues we had previously, was the simplicity of log integrations. It's much easier with this platform to integrate log sources that might not have standard logging and things like that.

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reviewer1991436

IT Risk Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is.

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KG

Director of World Wide Security Services at Open Text

Dec 7, 2021

Devo helps us to unlock the full power of our data because they have more than 450 parsers, which means that we can ingest pretty much any type of log data.

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Product Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 7, 2021

Those 400 days of hot data mean that people can look for trends and at what happened in the past. And they can not only do so from a security point of view, but even for operational use cases. In the past, our operational norm was to keep live data for only 30 days. Our users were constantly asking us for at least 90 days, and we really couldn't even do that. That's one reason that having 400 days of live data is pretty huge. As our users start to use it and adopt this system, we expect people to be able to do those long-term analytics.

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reviewer1539015

Director at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

Scalability is one of Devo's strengths.

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CEO at Analytica 42

Nov 30, 2021

Devo provides a multi-tenant, cloud-native architecture. This is critical for managed service provider environments or multinational organizations who may have subsidiaries globally. It gives organizations a way to consolidate their data in a single accessible location, yet keep the data separate. This allows for global views and/or isolated views restricted by access controls by company or business unit.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time.

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Cyber Security Engineer at H&R Block, Inc.

Jun 23, 2021

The most valuable feature is definitely the ability that Devo has to ingest data. From the previous SIEM that I came from and helped my company administer, it really was the type of system where data was parsed on ingest. This meant that if you didn't build the parser efficiently or correctly, sometimes that would bring the system to its knees. You'd have a backlog of processing the logs as it was ingesting them.

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Devo Cons review quotes

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Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 22, 2025

The tools in Devo's active ports need enhancement in their investigative capabilities.

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CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Aug 2, 2024

They can improve their AI capabilities

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JB

Security Engineer at Kforce

Oct 7, 2022

Some of the documentation could be improved a little bit. A lot of times it doesn't go as deep into some of the critical issues you might run into. They've been really good to shore us up with support, but some of the documentation could be a little bit better.

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reviewer1991436

IT Risk Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

There are some issues from an availability and functionality standpoint, meaning the tool is somewhat slow. There were some slow response periods over the past six to nine months, though it has yet to impact us terribly as we are a relatively small shop. We've noticed it, however, so Devo could improve the responsiveness.

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KG

Director of World Wide Security Services at Open Text

Dec 7, 2021

We only use the core functionality and one of the reasons for this is that their security operation center needs improvement.

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Product Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 7, 2021

One major area for improvement for Devo... is to provide more capabilities around pre-built monitoring. They're working on integrations with different types of systems, but that integration needs to go beyond just onboarding to the platform. It needs to include applications, out-of-the-box, that immediately help people to start monitoring their systems. Such applications would include dashboards and alerts, and then people could customize them for their own needs so that they aren't starting from a blank slate.

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reviewer1539015

Director at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Jul 17, 2023

My opinion on the solution's technical support is not as great as it could be because of the issues I have faced regarding the service management element.

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CEO at Analytica 42

Nov 30, 2021

Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design.

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reviewer1685601

Digital Security VP at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 1, 2021

I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards.

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Cyber Security Engineer at H&R Block, Inc.

Jun 23, 2021

From our experience, the Devo agent needs some work. They built it on top of OS Query's open-source framework. It seems like it wasn't tuned properly to handle a large volume of Windows event logs. In our experience, there would definitely be some room for improvement. A lot of SIEMs on the market have their own agent infrastructure. I think Devo's working towards that, but I think that it needs some improvement as far as keeping up with high-volume environments.

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