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Hunters vs SolarWinds

Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts. 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.

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Hunters vs SolarWinds: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
HuntersHunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.hunters.securitySolarWindsSolarWinds sells monitoring, observability and service management capabilities on a platform offered in self-hosted and SaaS deployment models.solarwinds.com
What it sells
  • Hunters SOC Platform[4][6][7]Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams. It uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.
  • 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.
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Headquarters
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Named customers
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Recent news
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[11]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Hunters sells mainly to small security teams and small SOC teams that want a SIEM without detection engineering. Hunters also addresses teams building out a first SIEM, with no prior SIEM experience needed. Hunters for AWS is aimed at AWS customers, and a separate offering pairs the platform with Snowflake.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.
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November 2, 2026October 14, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Hunters and SolarWinds are both filed under SIEM.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Hunters's primary category is SIEM; SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
  • Hunters is also filed under AI SOC analysts and Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Hunters lists Hunters SOC Platform. SolarWinds lists Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
  • Hunters is headquartered in Boston, United States.

What it sells: Hunters

What Hunters SOC Platform does[4][6][7]
Hunters SOC Platform includes pre-built detections built, managed and tuned by Team Axon. Automated scoring, correlation and enrichment are performed 24x7. Hunters says it enables SIEM deployment in days, without professional services.

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 Hunters and SolarWinds

What do Hunters and SolarWinds sell?
Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform. SolarWinds sells Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
Are Hunters and SolarWinds in the same category?
They share SIEM. Hunters's primary category is SIEM and SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
Where are Hunters and SolarWinds headquartered?
Hunters is headquartered in Boston, United States.
Who are Hunters and SolarWinds sold to?
From its own pages, Hunters sells mainly to small security teams and small SOC teams that want a SIEM without detection engineering. SolarWinds offers a choice of self-hosted, SaaS or hybrid deployment.

About Hunters

Hunters sells Hunters SOC Platform, a Next-Gen SIEM for small security teams that uses AI and automation to prioritize, investigate and respond to alerts.[4][13]

Hunters says running a SOC is hard and running a small SOC is harder. Its product page describes security teams drowning in noisy alerts and false positives, with lengthy and manual investigations, while small teams are expected to deliver the same outcomes as large SOCs. Hunters positions its Next-Gen SIEM as a way to make small teams more effective and efficient.[4]

Team Axon builds, manages and tunes these detections, and Hunters says no detection engineering is necessary. Hunters says it correlates data sources to identify attacks that could be missed in isolation.[3][4][5]

For triage and investigation, Hunters says automated scoring, correlation and enrichment are performed 24x7. Hunters says GenAI provides threat summaries, explanations and final investigation steps, and that analysts can respond with one click. The platform covers work from ingestion to response in one solution.[1][3][4][5][7]

Hunters offers a security data lake that customers can bring themselves or have Hunters manage. Hunters says all data is standardized to OCSF. Hunters for Snowflake pairs Hunters SOC Platform with Snowflake, and Hunters collects logs, events and telemetry through cloud connectors from sources including EDRs, NDRs, cloud service providers, firewalls and identity and access management tools.[4][6][7]

Hunters SOC Platform is also offered for AWS environments, where it ingests, indexes, investigates, correlates and retains security log and event data. The platform processes AWS data such as CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC Flow Logs and AWS WAF into a single schema. Hunters is available to AWS customers through the AWS Marketplace.[7]

On deployment, Hunters says its out-of-the-box solution enables SIEM deployment in days, without professional services. Team Axon experts are also available on demand for incident investigation, threat research and triage guidance, and for proactive threat hunting.[4][5]

Cyber Hunters Ltd is located at 82, Yigal Alon St, Tel Aviv, Israel. Hunters states that a Deloitte audit certifies SOC 2 Type II compliance, and that its information security management system complies with ISO/IEC 27001:2013.[1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][12][13]

Hunters on the record

Sources

Hunters full record

  1. [1]Pathfinder ai press releaseHunters · hunters.security · published March 5, 2025 · Tier A
  2. [2]About Hunters | On a mission to revolutionize security operationsHunters · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEM | HuntersHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Hunters SOC Platform: Next-Gen SIEM for Security OperationsHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Replace your SIEM | Hunters AI-Driven Next-Gen SIEMHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Hunters for SnowflakeHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Hunters for AWS | Detection and Response at Cloud-ScaleHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Hunters SaaS Terms of ServiceHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Integrations | Hunters SOC PlatformHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Get a Demo - Hunters for AWS: Detection & Response at Cloud ScaleHunters · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Hunters SOC Platform Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier C
  12. [12]Privacy & Security - HUNTERSHunters · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Hunters SIEM - Analyze, Detect, Investigate Faster and BetterHunters · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A

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

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