We performed a comparison between Datadog and Logz.io based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Datadog is the winner in this comparison. According to reviews, Datadog appears to be a more mature and powerful solution. Logz.io does come out on top in the setup and pricing categories, however.
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The visualizations in Kibana are the most valuable feature. It's much more convenient to have a visualization of logs. We can see status really clearly and very fast, with just a couple of clicks."
"The other nice thing about Logz.io is their team. When it comes to onboarding, their support is incredibly proactive. They bring the brand experience from a customer services perspective because their team is always there to help you refine filters and tweak dashboards. That is really a useful thing to have. Their engagement is really supportive."
"It is massively useful and great for testing. We can just go, find logs, and attach them easily. It has a very quick lookup. Whereas, before we would have to go, dig around, and find the server that the logs were connected to, then go to the server, download the log, and attach it. Now, we can just go straight to this solution, type in the log ID and server ID, and obtain the information that we want."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"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."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"I would like granularity on alerting so we can get tentative alerts and major alerts, then break it down between the two."
"When it comes to reducing our troubleshooting time, it depends. When there are no bugs in Logz.io, it reduces troubleshooting by 5 to 10 percent. When there are bugs, it increases our troubleshooting time by 200 percent or more."
"I would like them to improve how they manage releases. Some of our integrations integrate specifically with set versions. Logz.io occasionally releases an update that might break that integration. On one occasion, we found out a little bit too late, then we had to roll it back."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 108 reviews while Logz.io is ranked 22nd in Log Management with 3 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Logz.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Logz.io writes "Improved our troubleshooting by giving us visibility into what's going on". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and Wazuh, whereas Logz.io is most compared with Coralogix, Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security. See our Datadog vs. Logz.io report.
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