We performed a comparison between Datadog and VMware Aria Operations for Logs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"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 is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"Technical support should be improved."
"The tool is expensive."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Sumo Logic Security. See our Datadog vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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