We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds Log Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"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."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"Datadog is expensive."
"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."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th in Log Management with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Log Analyzer writes "Can be used to monitor a specific log or do specific actions, but its initial setup is not so easy". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer and Loggly.
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