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.
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"It lets us react more quickly to things going wrong. Whereas before, it might have been 30 minutes to an hour before we noticed something going on, we will know within a minute or two if something is off, which will let us essentially get something back up and running faster for our customers, which is revenue."
"It has a nice UI."
"The most valuable feature of Wazuh is the ELK for doing an investigation."
"If they support a solution, it is easy to do an integration."
"Integrates with various open-source and paid products, allowing for flexibility in customization based on use cases."
"The tool is stable."
"I like that the solution is on top of the Kubernetes stack."
"Wazuh has very flexible and robust features."
"Wazuh's best features are syscheck, its ability to immediately resolve vulnerabilities, and that it's open source."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"They could have better log reporting."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"The support team could be more responsive and provide quicker replies during our working hours in Indonesia, which would be a significant improvement."
"Scalability is a constraint in the on-prem version of Wazuh in terms of the volume of logs we can manage."
"Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"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."
"Log data analysis could be improved. My IT team has been looking for an alternative because they want better log data for malware detection. We are also doing more container implementation also, so we need better container security, log data analysis, auditing and compliance, malware detection, etc."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system"
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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