We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 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."The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"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."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"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 ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerting based on the security logs."
"Simplicity is the most valuable feature."
"The best thing about Kiwi Syslog is that it filters logs into different levels."
"We are very happy with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is its performance and management. Additionally, the solution integrates well."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"This service could be less costly."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly and customizable dashboard."
"I would like to have email notifications for emergency logs."
"I would like to see better search functions and better filters in the next release."
"SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server could improve by reducing the price."
"Technical support could definitely be better."
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Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 30th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Shows login failures and server issues but search functions and filters could be improved". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with syslog-ng, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Graylog. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server report.
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