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."It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"It has a nice UI."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"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."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"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 49th 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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