Elastic is a search platform with SIEM capabilities: your team ships data into it, maintains the mappings and detection rules, and runs investigations in its tools. Vigilbase is the cybersecurity operating system: it connects the security tools you already pay for, analyzes their events, and has the Vigil agent investigate and respond within the authority you set.
The short answer
Choose Vigilbase when you want your security tools operating together without running and tuning a search cluster, ingest pipelines, and a rule library first.
Keep Elastic when your security workflow depends on its search, detection content, and investigation capabilities.
Run both when Elastic remains your search and archive layer and Vigilbase runs day-to-day operations across the tools it connects. Vigilbase does not read from Elastic, so confirm how data reaches each system.
How they actually differ
Elastic gives you building blocks. Vigilbase gives you an operating system that already knows your tools.
Each native connector knows its provider’s datasets, so events arrive in a common schema with analysis already switched on. You do not have to build a detection library before the platform is useful.
Native connectors cover edge, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and email security, including Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Imperva, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender XDR, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Zscaler, AWS, Google Cloud, Proofpoint, and Mimecast. Wiz is coming soon.
Log collection and analysis differ by provider, and a connection does not mean every response action is available. Where the platform cannot act directly, the investigation returns the steps for your team to complete.
What the operating system adds
Every connected tool feeds one auditable record. Each team gets dashboards over that record, and the Vigil agent opens investigations on high-severity incidents instead of waiting for someone to write a query.
You choose the autonomy: keep actions off, propose them for approval, or allow low-risk, reversible actions to run. Agents work from evidence and remediate in scope. Humans set authority, approve changes when required, and handle exceptions. The record shows the investigation, actions taken, and verification results.
Vigilbase combines native Cloudflare integration with Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare. Confirm the required products, permissions, commercial terms, and operating scope with us.
Elastic in depth
Elastic Security supports detection, investigation, and response on its search platform. Its AI tools assist with alert investigation, incident response, and query generation.
Elastic suits teams that want full control of their data model and have engineers to run it, whether self-managed or on Elastic Cloud.
Tools without a native connector can send Splunk HTTP Event Collector-compatible logs to a custom source. Those logs are stored alongside your other sources, but they are not analyzed automatically and carry no response actions.
Pricing and scope
Compare written quotes for the same connected systems, data volume, retention, operating responsibilities, and response authority. Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare have their own agreed scope. We do not claim a universal savings percentage or bundled coverage.
Ask for the Elastic deployment, data, retention, and support configuration you require. Compare operating responsibilities alongside the platform quote.
Default retention is set per dataset, typically 30 to 90 days. If you need a long-term archive or compliance retention, decide where that data lives before you consolidate.
How to choose
Start with the tools you already pay for and the security work you need done. On a discovery call, we map that stack onto the platform and show you the operating system live, including a representative investigation, a permitted response, and its verification record.
If your current Elastic workflow remains necessary, retain it while validating Vigilbase against the agreed scope. A migration plan should establish data coverage, response ownership, and acceptance checks before any cutover.