We performed a comparison between ArcSight Logger and Datadog 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."It provides in-depth information on business activities once we log into the system."
"The ability to customize the solution in great detail is its most valuable features. We can customize the use cases and also have the ability to do scripting. We can personalize our dashboard as well. The scalability the solution offers is quite impressive."
"Our return on investment for implementing ArcSight Logger over the past 12 months has been positive."
"ArcSight's robustness is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the search capability, which is simple to use."
"The machine learning is a good feature."
"The solution provides information about the risk factors."
"It's a brilliant log collection tool, and it can handle hundreds of thousands of servers in a single shot to ingest the data."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"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."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"The solution could be improved in maintenance settings."
"We have had problems with archiving."
"I think the ArcSight team should try to simplify legacy products for the customers, because that product is not easy to use or to work with. It needs more more competency or appeal to use. We hope Micro Focus is trying to resolve this."
"I would like to see better scheduling in the next release of this solution."
"You have limited reporting capabilities and I wouldn't choose ArcSight Logger for this purpose."
"In the next release, I want to see more intelligence."
"Using the ArcSight Logger dashboard is not particularly intuitive or efficient, so it is important to be trained in its use."
"The platform is quite expensive. They should reduce its cost."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
ArcSight Logger is ranked 29th in Log Management with 30 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews. ArcSight Logger is rated 7.8, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ArcSight Logger writes "A scalable and stable solution that enables users to see all the event logs in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". ArcSight Logger is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our ArcSight Logger vs. Datadog report.
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