We performed a comparison between Datadog and syslog-ng 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."The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"It has a nice UI."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior."
"Syslog-ng has a separate config file in addition to the core configuration."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"The ability to extract and store the logs is the most valuable feature of syslog-ng."
"Syslog-ng provides easy access to all my logs. It helps me show managers and other clients precisely where an incident occurred. I also like it because you can integrate syslog-ng with multiple solutions to allow real-time monitoring."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"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."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"There is room for improvement in terms of observability."
"There is always the potential for additional integration and protocol extensions."
"It's hard to find people who know how to use syslog-ng. I often find problems with configurations, and solutions aren't integrated correctly with syslog-ng. For example, there might be data with extra decimals, or the collector agents are incorrectly named. It isn't a problem with the solution; it's a lack of professionals."
"The filtering has room for improvement."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 18th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki and Logstash. See our Datadog vs. syslog-ng report.
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