We performed a comparison between Datadog and Elastic Beats based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."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."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Datadog is easy to use and easy to deploy. It's a better solution compared to others on the market in terms of being budget friendly for our customers."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"Datadog is expensive."
"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."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 136 reviews while Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Elastic Beats is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Elastic Beats is most compared with .
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