We performed a comparison between Datadog and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"I like that the solution is on top of the Kubernetes stack."
"I find the PCI DSS feature the most valuable, along with the feature that monitors the compliance of Windows and the CIS benchmarks on other devices like Unix or Linux systems."
"Wazuh offers numerous features, such as the ability to define custom rules for detecting malicious activities and remembering behaviors."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"I like Wazuh because it is a lot like ELK, which I was already comfortable with, so I didn't have to learn from scratch."
"If they support a solution, it is easy to do an integration."
"Wazuh's best features are syscheck, its ability to immediately resolve vulnerabilities, and that it's open source."
"We use it to find any aberration in our endpoint devices. For example, if someone installs a game on their company laptop, Wazuh will detect it and inform us of the unauthorized software or unintended use of the devices provided by the company."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"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."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh."
"It would be great if there could be customization for the decoder portion."
"We would like to see more improvements on the cloud."
"Its configuration process is time-consuming."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"Integration with Vyara could be better."
"Wazuh is missing many things that a typical SIEM should have."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 101 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 28 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Wazuh is rated 7.2. 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 Wazuh writes "Good for file integrity monitoring". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Security, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, USM Anywhere and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Datadog vs. Wazuh report.
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