We performed a comparison between ArcSight Logger and Datadog 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 solution provides information about the risk factors."
"The log digestion features from threat intelligence platforms like Recorded Future or Talos are valuable."
"The ESM use cases are the most valuable. It enables us to use the big data collection inside our company. We are able to create use cases for whatever it suits and I find that the most interesting part of any SIEM solution."
"In our country we are a little bit private in terms of solutions, so we are just starting to use the basic data capture. Now some users can start to use additional features that come with Micro Focus ArcSight like user behavior analytics for investigating."
"It is one of the best products available in the market."
"We check a lot of logs in ArcSight Logger because we're running a massive database platform."
"It's a brilliant log collection tool, and it can handle hundreds of thousands of servers in a single shot to ingest the data."
"The machine learning is a good feature."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"I would like to see better scheduling in the next release of this solution."
"I think the ArcSight team should try to simplify legacy products for the customers, because that product is not easy to use or to work with. It needs more more competency or appeal to use. We hope Micro Focus is trying to resolve this."
"The platform is quite expensive. They should reduce its cost."
"The speed of Logger indexing and searching for certain bugs for some queries that we provide could be improved. It can handle a huge number of logs but it can be improved."
"It would be better if the product is cheaper."
"It is really difficult to work in ArcSight Logger, as it is very slow."
"ArcSight has been sold two or three times, and the quality has decreased."
"Using the ArcSight Logger dashboard is not particularly intuitive or efficient, so it is important to be trained in its use."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"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."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
ArcSight Logger is ranked 28th in Log Management with 31 reviews while Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews. ArcSight Logger is rated 7.8, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ArcSight Logger writes "A scalable and stable solution that enables users to see all the event logs in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". ArcSight Logger is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our ArcSight Logger vs. Datadog report.
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