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."The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"It has a nice UI."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
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Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 30th 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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