We performed a comparison between Datadog and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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 seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
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Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Sumo Logic Security. See our Datadog vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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