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Attribute Ratings
- Datadog is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

9.0
Datadog
90%
19 Ratings

6.7
SolarWinds Loggly
67%
39 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Datadog
N/A
0 Ratings

4.5
SolarWinds Loggly
45%
1 Rating
Usability

10.0
Datadog
100%
1 Rating

7.8
SolarWinds Loggly
78%
7 Ratings
Support Rating

8.8
Datadog
88%
10 Ratings

7.4
SolarWinds Loggly
74%
8 Ratings
Implementation Rating

Datadog
N/A
0 Ratings

7.3
SolarWinds Loggly
73%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
Datadog is a no-brainer for any environment that relies on multiple servers. Even for one server, it's so much better to use for monitoring and alert capability than anything else I remember looking at before we started using Datadog. Teams can even use it to track their progress of investigating an alert so multiple people aren't unknowingly looking into the same exact issue unnecessarily.

Verified User
Director in Research & Development
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
It is well suited to very large volumes of logs where the immediate past is the area of interest, e.g. in situations where the issues are in the recent past. Loggly makes it very easy to search for particular terms of interest, within a specific time frame across the entire estate of devices or, indeed, within a subset, or on a specific device of interest. There does seem to be a short delay in the logs though, even with the "live tail" feature, Loggly might be less suited to "emerging" situations where the issues are occurring in real time.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Host Ireland Business BroadbandTelecommunications, 11-50 employees
Pros
Datadog
- APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair.
- Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done.
- Lightweight agent on hosts
ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect
WayfairInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
SolarWinds Loggly
- Putting our logs in one place and making them searchable. We use AWS, and CloudWatch has always been a little frustrating in this regard (though it has gotten better recently).
- Deriving metrics from our logs. I think log-based metrics is such a good idea because your logs are the ultimate source for truth in regards to what the hell is going on inside your app. I have really loved the simplicity with which I can just count certain statements and call that a metric because just through the normal course of development certain log statements just naturally become a straightforward recording of an event having occurred.
- Alerts. I actually have a few complaints about email alerts, but just the way I was able to set them up so easily has been huge. Since we started using Loggly, there have been at least 3 bugs that Loggly exposed that were frankly very bad. And withoutt Loggly or without a user reporting them, we would have never known they were happening! This is stuff I tried to set up in CloudWatch in various ways, but because of my own ignorance or perhaps the complexity/limitations of CloudWatch (or the complexity of my stack?), I wasn't getting the information that I needed until I was able to just tell Loggly to send me an email whenever the word "error" showed up.
VP of Engineering
ZolTrainInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
Datadog
- User interface could be improved in some areas, looking for host information and the agent install link takes a bit of time.
- Configuration of the agent is generally done via a config file which is a pro and a con. It would be nice to have some UI to configure various agent options.
- Billing isn't entirely straightforward, they could use more reports to figure out the source of your monthly costs.
Software Architect
SpringAheadInternet, 51-200 employees
SolarWinds Loggly
- Once the logging limit is exceeded, there are no logs period. Unexpectedly noisy logs often correlate with services misbehaving and potentially leading to disruption. An outage is an awful time to lose visibility into the entire system of apps. Some ways to bridge this gap would be appreciated.
- Filtering by tags is not intuitive in the web interface. You may believe that you are performing the same search and filter as last time since the tags entered are the same, however, this is often not the case. The reliable way to know that you have the same filter is to bookmark the URL. This lack of ease in usability results in devs using Loggly less than they could and implementing logs less effectively during development time (since they don't consider themselves likely to view them anyway).
- Would like to see a way to onboard our less experienced devs to using Loggly effectively.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 201-500 employeesPricing Details
Datadog
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0 Up to 5 hosts
Datadog Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Infrastructure | $15.001 |
---|---|
Log Management | $1.272 |
APM | $31.003 |
- Per Host Per Month
- Per Million Log Events
- Per Host Per Month
SaaS Edition
Free | $01 |
---|---|
Standard | $15/host2 |
Enterprise | Custom3 |
- Up to 5 hosts
- Up to 500 hosts
- 500+ hosts
Additional Pricing Details
—SolarWinds Loggly
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$79 per month/billed annually
SolarWinds Loggly Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $791 |
---|---|
Pro | $1591 |
Enterprise | $2791 |
- per month/billed annually
Additional Pricing Details
Free trial for Standard and Pro plans for 14 days with all features.Likelihood to Renew
Datadog
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 4.5
Based on 1 answer
Management is not open to having an agent sending the data to the cloud instance.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
Datadog
Datadog 10.0
Based on 1 answer
The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.8
Based on 7 answers
Loggly's easy setup, very good customer support, and intuitive interface make Loggly very easy to use. User access management is also very easy as we can tailor the experience for each of our developers to access the information they need without having to wade through other information. While there was a slight learning curve in how to view the logs the way some specifically wanted, everything was possible and quite easy to do.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employeesSupport Rating
Datadog
Datadog 8.8
Based on 10 answers
The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.4
Based on 8 answers
The support team have been great when we have logged tickets or had issues, most of the time it is down to user training, however we have had a couple of bugs that they have been able to iron out for us.
Cloud Specialist
Air Charter Services LTDAirlines/Aviation, 501-1000 employees
Implementation Rating
Datadog
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Loggly
SolarWinds Loggly 7.3
Based on 3 answers
It has good architecture, which focus on ese of use.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Datadog
We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Loggly
We were using Zabbix. While it is an open-source solution that you can install for free the following things were limitations of the solution. 1) The scale and uptime of the solution are now your own problem. Since we were hosting at AWS this meant we still had a cost of the AWS solution. 2) The product is complicated from a configuration standpoint. In order to get anything meaningful out of it, you had to invest a lot of time and effort.We did consider NewRelic. I have experience with that product and do think that it is a solid alternative. Ultimately experience with the simplicity and speed of deployment with Loggly encouraged me to suggest using this again.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
GraftworxHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Datadog
- One of our critical production databases went down a couple of weeks back. Just because we had the Datadog monitoring enabled for that database, Datadog sent the alerts to PagerDuty and we were instantly notified via pager and email alert. We could act right away and bring up the database within a few mins.
- Ability to create custom screenboards have allowed us to track the critical and warning alerts in front of our eyes all the time
Systems Analyst, Engineering
Dreamworks AnimationEntertainment, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Loggly
- (Positive, actually!) Cost of Acquisition: Loggly is not OpenSource (i.e. Free in this case). Therefore, while you have a cost up front, you have a wealth of support from the people that built it, which can translate into Time savings and/or bringing contractors on-board just for augmentation purposes
- Negative: Loggly covers a lot of the features that other Open Source Projects cover. That being said, it's regulated by supply and demand, and thus it has a certain "desirability" as a commercial (and therefore stable) project. As a result, unless you are an employee working in a company that sees Loggly as a necessary tool, you will probably not be exposed to it on your own
- (Positive): Tagging of information, and filtering of logs makes this product worthwhile from a commercial perspective: You can train your employees, and have them filtering logs in a day. If they get stuck, you don't have to pull internal resources away to support them, you simply open a ticket with Loggly.

Verified User
Engineer in Corporate
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees