User Reviews of Datadog & Splunk Enterprise Security

Updated April 2025

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Datadog review

Kevin Palmer
Kevin Palmer
DevOps/Security Principal at Raken
Useful log aggregation and management with helpful metrics aggregation
Datadog provides us value in three major ways: First, Datadog provides best-in-class functionality in many, if not all, of the products to which we subscribe (infrastructure, APM, log management, serverless, synthetics, real user monitoring, DB monitoring). In my experience with other tools that provide similar functionality, Datadog...
Splunk Enterprise Security review

ROBERT-CHRISTIAN
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN
CTO at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log...
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has...

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