We performed a comparison between Datadog and LogRhythm SIEM 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. Users praised LogRhythm SIEM for its user-friendly centralized dashboard, strong integration, and event-filtering capabilities. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. LogRhythm SIEM has the potential to improve its SOAR and NDR features, platform stability, and MDI integration. LogRhythm users requested expanded log storage, better load balancing, and streamlined search capabilities.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. LogRhythm SIEM was generally praised for its helpful and knowledgeable support, although there have been occasional delays and knowledge problems.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. LogRhythm SIEM's setup is considered to be straightforward. However, it is more time-consuming and complex for enterprise deployments involving multiple components or vendors, and users often require assistance from professional services or LogRhythm-certified engineers.
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. LogRhythm SIEM’s license typically includes all elements. However, enterprise customers may encounter complexities related to additional features and add-ons.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. LogRhythm SIEM has proven to be highly valuable, delivering a significant ROI by reducing the mean time to detect and respond.
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"We use this solution to examine disparate log sources and provide a cohesive method to search for anomalous behavior."
"The dashboards in the LogRhythm SIEM really help us as a starting point. It gives us a starting point we can go to every day. We walk through several dashboards to see anomalous activity for further investigation."
"Even other products we have that feed into it, instead of having to watch all of them we only have to watch one. For example, we have CrowdStrike, so instead of having to pay attention that solution - because their dashboard doesn't really pop when an alarm comes up - we can see issues with the red on the LogRhythm alarm. That is very nice."
"The Web Console is my favorite. It enables me, at a glance, to see the health of the environments."
"LogRhythm has shown to us, to this point in time, that it has the capabilities of being able to deliver actionable intelligence to the security engineers and analysts."
"LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is customizable, simple to manage, and there are many features. The solution does not require an expert to be able to use it, anyone can use it."
"I have found the Advanced Intelligence Engine has provided the most value to us because we can customize alarms based on our requirements and have created hundreds of alarms that notify different people for different scenarios."
"The log analysis feature is valuable."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The security playbook could be pre-defined and available to other analysts with similar security issues."
"We've tried to work with a couple of engineering department guys there. We've called them and called them but we never hear anything back."
"More help and assistance with some of the open source products, everything seems to be focused on Windows versus giving some guidance and some documentation on how to use it."
"There is room for improvement with separate running sources or better integration."
"The built-in functionality of the solution for NDR, SOAR, SIEM, and EDS has room for improvement."
"It should have some more message monitoring features. It can also have some free message monitoring tools."
"Sometimes the error-logging is not altogether helpful. For example, on an upgrade, a systems data processor, a Windows box, was throwing an error code like 1083. Then it just stopped and it died right out of the installer and nobody looked. We searched through Google and what it means is the Windows Firewall wasn't turned on so that it could create a rule for the product. Why wouldn't they bubble up that description so that I wouldn't have to call support and I could just know, "Okay, the firewall wasn't turned on. Turn it back on. Re-run the installer and keep going.""
"The web and on-premise console interface should be the same instead of having a separate engine for each."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while LogRhythm SIEM is ranked 7th in Log Management with 166 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while LogRhythm SIEM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of LogRhythm SIEM writes "The solution reduced our investigation time from days to hours and assists in managing our workflows". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas LogRhythm SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and LogRhythm Axon. See our Datadog vs. LogRhythm SIEM report.
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