We performed a comparison between Datadog and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"I find the PCI DSS feature the most valuable, along with the feature that monitors the compliance of Windows and the CIS benchmarks on other devices like Unix or Linux systems."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The configuration assessment and Pile integrity monitoring features are decent."
"If they support a solution, it is easy to do an integration."
"One of the most beneficial features of Wazuh, particularly in the context of security needs, is the machine learning data handling capability."
"Wazuh has very flexible and robust features."
"It's stable."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
"The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments."
"Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions."
"There could be a hardware monitoring tool for the solution."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"Wazuh needs more security and features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"The technical support can be improved. Wazuh has some bugs that need to be fixed. It would be good if we can have automation with respect to incidence responses."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Datadog vs. Wazuh report.
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