We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
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Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 32nd in Log Management with 5 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Shows login failures and server issues but search functions and filters could be improved". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Graylog. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server report.
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