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, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."APM and tracing are super useful."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"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 is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"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."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th 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 Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer and syslog-ng.
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