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RunReveal vs SolarWinds

RunReveal sells a unified platform that handles the security lifecycle from data ingestion through investigation and remediation. 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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RunReveal vs SolarWinds: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
RunRevealRunReveal sells a unified platform that handles the security lifecycle from data ingestion through investigation and remediation.runreveal.comSolarWindsSolarWinds sells monitoring, observability and service management capabilities on a platform offered in self-hosted and SaaS deployment models.solarwinds.com
What it sells
  • Security Data Lake[1][7]RunReveal integrates natively with 80+ sources and supports Bring-Your-Own-Source functionality to unify logs in one searchable security data lake.
  • Detections[1][4][6][11]RunReveal includes pre-built SQL detections for common threats across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Okta, and 80+ integrations.
  • Pipelines[1][10]RunReveal's data pipelines let users filter, route, transform, and enrich security logs before they hit storage.
  • 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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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, RunReveal sells mainly to security teams that want data management, detection, and response in a single platform. Its use cases include cloud security monitoring for misconfigurations, unauthorized access, and policy violations. Identity and access use cases cover detection of credential abuse, impossible travel, privilege escalation, and unauthorized access. RunReveal states that bring-your-own-cloud lets customers deploy in their own VPC for control over data residency, security, and compliance. RunReveal states that bring-your-own-database runs the platform on a database the customer's team controls.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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October 30, 2026October 14, 2026

Where they overlap

  • RunReveal and SolarWinds are both filed under SIEM.

Where they differ, field by field

  • RunReveal's primary category is SIEM; SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
  • RunReveal is also filed under AI SOC analysts and Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • RunReveal lists Security Data Lake, Detections and Pipelines. SolarWinds lists Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
  • RunReveal was founded in 2024.

What it sells: RunReveal

What Security Data Lake does[1][7]
RunReveal integrates natively with 80+ sources and supports Bring-Your-Own-Source functionality to unify logs in one searchable security data lake. RunReveal can be deployed in its SaaS cloud, in a customer cloud account, on a customer database, or completely on-premise.
What Detections does[1][4][6][11]
RunReveal includes pre-built SQL detections for common threats across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Okta, and 80+ integrations. Existing rules can be modified, or custom detections written, using standard SQL or Sigma format. RunReveal lets users preview detections against historical logs, validate logic with real events, and iterate on rules. RunReveal can deploy Sigma rules that evaluate events during ingestion rather than on a schedule.
What Pipelines does[1][10]
RunReveal's data pipelines let users filter, route, transform, and enrich security logs before they hit storage. RunReveal provides a visual pipeline builder for filtering, routing, and basic transformations. For advanced uses such as complex data reshaping or custom enrichment logic, transformations can be written in SQL or built-in functions can be used. RunReveal provides real-time pipeline metrics showing volume processed, filtering rates, routing destinations, processing latency, and error rates.

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 RunReveal and SolarWinds

What do RunReveal and SolarWinds sell?
RunReveal sells Security Data Lake, Detections and Pipelines. SolarWinds sells Security Event Manager, SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
Are RunReveal and SolarWinds in the same category?
They share SIEM. RunReveal's primary category is SIEM and SolarWinds's is Network visibility and traffic brokering.
When were RunReveal and SolarWinds founded?
RunReveal was founded in 2024.
Who are RunReveal and SolarWinds sold to?
From its own pages, RunReveal sells mainly to security teams that want data management, detection, and response in a single platform. SolarWinds offers a choice of self-hosted, SaaS or hybrid deployment.

About RunReveal

RunReveal sells a unified platform that handles the security lifecycle from data ingestion through investigation and remediation. RunReveal unifies security data management with AI-powered detection and response. RunReveal brings data management, detection, and response into a single platform for security teams. RunReveal provides the core capabilities of a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform, namely centralized log management, threat detection, alerting, and incident investigation.[1][2][4][5][6][13]

RunReveal integrates natively with 80+ sources and supports Bring-Your-Own-Source functionality to unify logs in one searchable security data lake. RunReveal ingests from 80+ sources including AWS, GCP, Azure, Okta, GitHub, and custom logs. RunReveal connects to Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, ServiceNow, and any destination via webhooks for alerting and response. RunReveal stores both the original raw logs and the normalized, enriched versions. RunReveal monitors, normalizes, and enriches log data to prepare it for querying, search, and investigations. Data monitoring alerts users when logs stop flowing, schemas change, or volume spikes unexpectedly.[1][6][7][8][9]

RunReveal's data pipelines let users filter, route, transform, and enrich security logs before they hit storage. RunReveal provides a visual pipeline builder for filtering, routing, and basic transformations. For advanced uses such as complex data reshaping or custom enrichment logic, transformations can be written in SQL or built-in functions can be used. RunReveal provides real-time pipeline metrics showing volume processed, filtering rates, routing destinations, processing latency, and error rates. RunReveal pipelines can enrich logs with threat intelligence, geolocation data from IP addresses, custom fields from lookup tables, and user or asset information from internal systems. RunReveal supports bring-your-own enrichment data from internal systems, custom threat feeds, employee databases, or any context source that helps investigations.[1][4][7][8][10]

RunReveal includes pre-built SQL detections for common threats across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Okta, and 80+ integrations. Existing rules can be modified, or custom detections written, using standard SQL or Sigma format. RunReveal lets users preview detections against historical logs, validate logic with real events, and iterate on rules. RunReveal can deploy Sigma rules that evaluate events during ingestion rather than on a schedule. RunReveal offers both code-based and built-in options for detections. RunReveal routes alerts based on severity, tags, and custom logic that users define. AI can analyze a detection library against MITRE ATT&CK, identify gaps for specific attack techniques, or recommend rules based on log sources.[1][11][12]

RunReveal's native AI chat and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server bring AI into security workflows to investigate alerts, analyze patterns, and create detections using natural language. RunReveal's AI correlates logs, enriches context, and surfaces relevant insights when users investigate alerts. RunReveal supports Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and other major large language models. RunReveal provides audit logging for all AI queries and data access, role-based access controls for AI features, and support for pre-approved model lists.[4][12]

RunReveal's AI agent automatically investigates alerts, pulls context from logs, and updates cases with findings. Specialized agents with custom prompts can be created for specific log types or detection categories. Agents can be configured with a chosen model and permissions, run on a schedule, or triggered on detection. RunReveal offers a built-in Weekly Threat Hunt agent template that runs automatically on a schedule.[13]

RunReveal can be deployed in its SaaS cloud, in a customer cloud account, on a customer database, or completely on-premise. Bring-your-own-cloud lets customers deploy RunReveal in their own VPC for control over data residency, security, and compliance. RunReveal is SOC2 Type 2 certified and compliant with CCPA and GDPR. RunReveal supports RBAC, SSO, and Just-In-Time provisioning for access control. RunReveal uses usage-based pricing in which customers pay for the logs they store and query, not for ingestion.[5][7]

SQL-powered dashboards and analytics cover core security metrics, detection performance, and operational KPIs. RunReveal's AI agent generates SQL queries from natural language prompts. Dashboard graphs can be sized S, M, L, or XL on a 12-column grid. RunReveal uses standard SQL as its query language. Cloud security monitoring covers misconfigurations, unauthorized access, and policy violations, with pre-built detections mapped to cloud security frameworks. Identity and access use cases cover detection of credential abuse, impossible travel, privilege escalation, and unauthorized access across Okta, Azure AD, and other identity providers.[1][4][5][6][7][12][13][14]

RunReveal on the record

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RunReveal full record

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SolarWinds full record

  1. [1]Security Event Manager - View Event Logs Remotely | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed October 14, 2026 · Tier A
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  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
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  13. [13]IT Service Desk Software | SolarWindsSolarWinds · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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