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, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"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."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"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 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 46th 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 AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer and Loggly.
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