We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds Log Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"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."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"It does not have the best interface."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th in Log Management with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Log Analyzer writes "Can be used to monitor a specific log or do specific actions, but its initial setup is not so easy". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer and Loggly.
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