CISO Tribune

Vendor comparison · 2 companies

Exabeam vs SolarWinds

Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform. SolarWinds sells monitoring, observability and service management capabilities on a platform offered in self-hosted and SaaS deployment models. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

Change the companies

Up to four companies side by side.

  • Exabeam
  • SolarWinds
Exabeam vs SolarWinds: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ExabeamExabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform.exabeam.comSolarWindsSolarWinds sells monitoring, observability and service management capabilities on a platform offered in self-hosted and SaaS deployment models.solarwinds.com
What it sells
  • New-Scale Fusion[1][5][9]A cloud-native platform combining New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics.
  • New-Scale SIEM[5][9]A cloud-native SIEM with search, correlation and AI co-investigation in a TDIR workbench.
  • Exabeam Nova[1][5][9]A platform-wide co-investigator for analysts.
  • Outcomes Navigator[5][9]Maps data to use cases and frameworks.
  • LogRhythm SIEM[5][11][12]An on-premises SIEM platform.
  • LogRhythm Intelligence[5][12]An add-on bringing behavioral analytics to LogRhythm SIEM.
  • NetMon[13]Network traffic monitoring for LogRhythm or New-Scale deployments.
  • Security Event Manager[1]An on-premise SIEM tool built with threat feeds designed to automatically detect and respond to user, application and network threats.
  • SolarWinds Observability SaaS[6]Observability delivered as SaaS, built to connect data from web applications, their services, and cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
  • SolarWinds Observability Self-HostedSelf-hosted observability that can be deployed behind a firewall or self-hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP.
Categories
Headquarters
Foster City, United States[4]Not stated on its pages
Founded
2013[2]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Owned by Thoma Bravo since 2024[5][7][8]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • October 1, 2026Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.[15]
  • July 1, 2026Exabeam expanded its Behavior Intelligence capabilities to help organizations secure AI agents, autonomous workflows, and human-to-agent interactions.[6]
  • June 23, 2026Exabeam introduced Agent Behavior Verification and released Praxen, an open-source tool that tests an AI agent against its intended role before deployment.[16]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 3, 2026[8]
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity. Exabeam offers a cloud-native platform and an on-premises SIEM, so it addresses both cloud and self-hosted deployment preferences. Its pages describe replacing a legacy SIEM or augmenting an existing one with behavioral analytics and automation. Exabeam also targets organizations concerned with insider threats from both human users and AI agents.SolarWinds offers a choice of self-hosted, SaaS or hybrid deployment. SolarWinds offers small business IT solutions and IT education solutions for students, staff and faculty. The federal government is a customer of SolarWinds. SolarWinds Service Desk can be used across the entire organization as an enterprise service management solution.
Last verified
September 27, 2026October 14, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Exabeam and SolarWinds are both filed under SIEM.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Exabeam's primary category is SIEM; SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
  • Exabeam is also filed under AI SOC analysts.
  • Exabeam lists New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more. SolarWinds lists Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
  • Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
  • Exabeam was founded in 2013.
  • Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.

What it sells: Exabeam

What New-Scale Fusion does[1][5][9]
New-Scale Fusion unifies log management, behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring and automation in a modular platform. It can replace an existing SIEM or augment current tools. It runs on Google Cloud Platform.
What New-Scale SIEM does[5][9]
New-Scale SIEM combines fast search, advanced correlation and persistent AI co-investigation in a unified TDIR workbench. Threat Center unifies alerts, cases, detections and watchlists. New-Scale SIEM is delivered from GCP.
What Exabeam Nova does[1][5][9]
Exabeam Nova follows analysts through Threat Center, search timelines and Outcomes Navigator. It automates background context collection, secondary searches and triage assistance.
What LogRhythm SIEM does[5][11][12]
LogRhythm SIEM is deployed on-premises for complete data control. It includes 1,100+ prebuilt correlation rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and compliance mandates.
What LogRhythm Intelligence does[5][12]
LogRhythm Intelligence applies AI-driven behavioral analytics to surface user and entity anomalies in the LogRhythm SIEM platform. It is an add-on to LogRhythm SIEM and not available as a standalone product.

What it sells: SolarWinds

What Security Event Manager does[1]
Security Event Manager comes with hundreds of pre-built connectors that gather logs from various sources, parse their data and put it into a common readable format. Security Event Manager has built-in File Integrity Monitoring capabilities to monitor and alert on suspicious or potentially malicious activity in sensitive files. Active Response provides preconfigured, customizable actions for incident response based on which trigger conditions are satisfied. SEM provides hundreds of out-of-the-box reports for HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO, DISA STIGs, FISMA, FERPA, NERC CIP, GLBA, GPG13 and more.
What SolarWinds Observability SaaS does[6]
The application performance monitoring solution collects metrics, logs, traces and user experience data. It is extensible with an open-source framework, a public API and out-of-the-box third-party integrations. Through Platform Connect, SolarWinds Observability, the SaaS-delivered observability solution, can consume data from self-hosted Hybrid Cloud Observability.
What SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted does
AIOps capabilities are part of SolarWinds Service Desk, SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and SaaS. Customers running self-hosted Orion modules on version 2022.2 or later are using the SolarWinds Platform. Self-hosted Hybrid Cloud Observability data can be consumed by SolarWinds Observability through Platform Connect.

Questions about Exabeam and SolarWinds

What do Exabeam and SolarWinds sell?
Exabeam sells New-Scale Fusion, New-Scale SIEM, Exabeam Nova, Outcomes Navigator, LogRhythm SIEM and 2 more. SolarWinds sells Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
Are Exabeam and SolarWinds in the same category?
They share SIEM. Exabeam's primary category is SIEM and SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
Where are Exabeam and SolarWinds headquartered?
Exabeam is headquartered in Foster City, United States.
When were Exabeam and SolarWinds founded?
Exabeam was founded in 2013.
Who owns Exabeam and SolarWinds?
Exabeam is owned by Thoma Bravo, since 2024.
Who are Exabeam and SolarWinds sold to?
Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity. SolarWinds offers a choice of self-hosted, SaaS or hybrid deployment.
What have Exabeam and SolarWinds announced recently?
October 1, 2026: Exabeam introduced new Agentic SOC capabilities that bring AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance to cloud and on-premises environments.

About Exabeam

Exabeam sells security operations software for threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR), including cloud-native SIEM, behavioral analytics and an on-premises SIEM platform.[9]

Exabeam says AI agents now act alongside human employees, often at machine speed and massive scale, and that traditional security tools were not built to see or understand this behavior. Exabeam says it applies behavioral analytics to both humans and AI agents to help organizations detect signals of compromised credentials, malicious activity and misaligned autonomous systems earlier. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) automatically baseline activity and expose anomalies.[10]

New-Scale Fusion is the cloud-native platform. New-Scale Fusion combines New-Scale SIEM and New-Scale Analytics in a modular platform that unifies log management, behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring and automation. Exabeam says New-Scale Fusion can be deployed to replace an existing SIEM or to augment current tools with behavioral analytics and automation. New-Scale Fusion runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a 99.5% uptime SLA, and customers select a hosting region at purchase.[1][9][14]

New-Scale SIEM combines fast search, advanced correlation and persistent AI co-investigation in a unified TDIR workbench. Exabeam Nova is a platform-wide co-investigator that follows analysts through Threat Center, search timelines and Outcomes Navigator. Threat Center unifies alerts, cases, detections and watchlists in one workbench.[1][9]

On data handling, Exabeam says prebuilt collectors process more than 2 million events per second (EPS) and that customers can start with 7,000+ prebuilt log parsers. The Common Information Model (CIM) normalizes data at ingestion. The Exabeam Threat Intelligence Service ingests and scores commercial and open-source threat feeds, updates every 24 hours, and is included at no extra cost.[9]

LogRhythm SIEM is deployed on-premises for complete data control. LogRhythm SIEM includes 1,100+ prebuilt correlation rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and compliance mandates. LogRhythm Intelligence applies AI-driven behavioral analytics to surface user and entity anomalies in the LogRhythm SIEM platform, and it is an add-on to LogRhythm SIEM rather than a standalone product. NetMon monitors network traffic for LogRhythm or New-Scale Security Operations Platform deployments.[11][12][13]

Exabeam names Resorts World Las Vegas, SA Power Networks, MTI Ltd and Port of Antwerp-Bruges among its customers. Exabeam says its platform helps organizations of any size and maturity improve security operations.[3][9][10][13][14]

Exabeam on the record

Sources

Exabeam full record

  1. [1]Exabeam new scale fusion security operations platformExabeam · exabeam.com · published July 1, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]About usExabeam · exabeam.com · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Exabeam and logrhythm complete merger and announce new company detailsThoma Bravo · thomabravo.com · published July 17, 2024 · Tier B
  4. [4]Exabeam opens new office in plano tx expands customer service and support in north americaExabeam · exabeam.com · published November 3, 2022 · Tier A
  5. [5]Exabeam | Cybersecurity & Compliance with Security Log Management and SIEMExabeam · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Exabeam Expands Behavior Intelligence to Secure the Agentic EnterpriseBusiness Wire · published July 1, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Exabeam New-Scale Platform Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  8. [8]Exabeam Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  9. [9]New-Scale SIEM | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Exabeam | Cybersecurity & Compliance with Security Log Management and SIEMExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]LogRhythm SIEM | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]LogRhythm Intelligence | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]NetMon | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]The Exabeam Difference | ExabeamExabeam · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]The Agentic SOC, Delivered: Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Security Operations to Machine SpeedExabeam · published October 1, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Exabeam launches Praxen, an open-source tool to verify AI agent behaviorSiliconANGLE · published June 23, 2026 · Tier B

SolarWinds full record

  1. [1]Security Event Manager - View Event Logs Remotely | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed October 14, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]SolarWinds productsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Observability, Database, and IT Service Management | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]SolarWinds Observability Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Orion Platform now self-hosted on the SolarWinds Platform | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Application Performance Monitoring | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]AIOps Solutions & AI-Powered IT Operations | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Security Resources | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Deployment Services | Customer SuccessSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]IT Service Management Software Solutions | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]IT Asset Management Solutions | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]SolarWinds SolutionsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]IT Service Desk Software | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

Spot a factual error? Request a correction.