We performed a comparison between Datadog and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"Integrates with various open-source and paid products, allowing for flexibility in customization based on use cases."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"It is excellent in terms of visualization and indexing services, making it a powerful tool for malware detection."
"The tool is stable."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"Datadog is expensive."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
"The technical support can be improved. Wazuh has some bugs that need to be fixed. It would be good if we can have automation with respect to incidence responses."
"Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
"Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Datadog vs. Wazuh report.
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