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."We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"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 biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"vRealize Log Insight has been running without any issues."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
"Technical support should be improved."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
"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."
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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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