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."We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"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 provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"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 events are notably more descriptive, aiding in security and event analysis. We've also integrated Sky Collector, providing valuable insights and solutions for troubleshooting."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"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."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
"Log Insight should be better at dealing with audits and security logs. We use another product called QRadar for that."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."
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Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 9th 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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