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 ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"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."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"Wazuh has very flexible and robust features."
"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 has efficient SCA capabilities."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"My company implemented Wazuh because it was relatively inexpensive. They could quickly get their hands on it to check a box for some audit and compliance."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"It would be better if they had a vulnerability assessment plug-in like the one AlienVault has. In the next release, I would like to have an app with an alerting mechanism."
"It would be great if there could be customization for the decoder portion."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"Its configuration process is time-consuming."
"Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Grafana Loki. See our Datadog vs. Wazuh report.
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