We performed a comparison between Datadog and syslog-ng 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."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."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior."
"Syslog-ng provides easy access to all my logs. It helps me show managers and other clients precisely where an incident occurred. I also like it because you can integrate syslog-ng with multiple solutions to allow real-time monitoring."
"Syslog-ng has a separate config file in addition to the core configuration."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"The ability to extract and store the logs is the most valuable feature of syslog-ng."
"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."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"There is always the potential for additional integration and protocol extensions."
"There is room for improvement in terms of observability."
"It's hard to find people who know how to use syslog-ng. I often find problems with configurations, and solutions aren't integrated correctly with syslog-ng. For example, there might be data with extra decimals, or the collector agents are incorrectly named. It isn't a problem with the solution; it's a lack of professionals."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"The filtering has room for improvement."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 18th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki, Logstash and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Datadog vs. syslog-ng report.
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