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.
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The main thing I like about it is that it has an EDR."
"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."
"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 product is easy to customize."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"One of the most beneficial features of Wazuh, particularly in the context of security needs, is the machine learning data handling capability."
"Some of the strengths of Wazuh that stand out for us include its scalability when deployed on Azure, its open-source nature, which allows for customization based on our needs, and its compatibility with various security solutions like threat intelligence platforms."
"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."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"They could have better log reporting."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
"Wazuh could improve the detection, it is not detecting all of the attacks. Additionally, it is lacking features compared to other solutions."
"We would like to see more improvements on the cloud."
"Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh."
"There could be a hardware monitoring tool for the solution."
"Its user interface for sure can be improved. It is not so comfortable to use if you're looking for specific logs."
"While it is scalable, it can suffer from reduced latencies."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd 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 Grafana Loki. See our Datadog vs. Wazuh report.
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