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."We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Datadog is expensive."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
"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."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
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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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