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Cribl vs Datadog comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 22, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Cribl
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
36th
Ranking in Log Management
37th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (37th), Cloud Data Integration (23rd), Data Preparation Tools (6th)
Datadog
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
1st
Ranking in Log Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
138
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (2nd), Container Monitoring (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st), AIOps (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

Pawel Kwiatkowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 7, 2024
Provides a robust framework for managing data flows, but the debugging capabilities need improvement
My primary use case for the platform was the internal management of events, parsing, and enriching events based on lookup files. It involved creating sources and destinations, managing data processing, and serializing data The solution has streamlined our data management and processing, making…
PK
Dec 6, 2022
Intuitive to set up with great dashboards and dashboards and APM
The main use case is observability and reliability as part of a platform/delivery engineering solution. We use the product to assist tenants and clients within the company to get more ramped up on SRE/DevOps The solution has provided us with a lot more insight into service-level metrics, which is…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Cribl offers other valuable features. For instance, you can replay data from an edge device, store your daily data in a stream, and replay specific event data into Splunk if a security incident occurs"
"Cribl offers easy plugin configurations and source collection settings, allowing us to collect logs from any source."
"The platform's most valuable feature is the ability to transform data in real-time within the pipeline without sending it to a destination."
"The product's most valuable features include the internal management of events, coding perspective, data processing, and serialization."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
 

Cons

"Cribl could improve by offering easier integrations with enterprise products, similar to what Splunk provides."
"The sys logging could be enhanced to make it easier to identify errors, especially when dealing with multiple functions."
"There is no alerting mechanism for the leader/worker nodes status."
"Cribl doesn't have as many packs available"
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product pricing is reasonable compared to other solutions."
"I am not satisfied with its licensing. Its payment is based on the exported data, and there was an explosion of the data for three or four weeks. My customer was not alerted, and there was no way for them to see that there has been an explosion of data. They got a big invoice for one or two months. The pricing model of Datadog is based on the data. The customer was quite surprised about not being alerted about this explosion of data. They should provide some kind of alert when there is an increase in usage."
"The solution's pricing depends on project volume."
"This solution is budget friendly."
"Pricing seemed easy until the bill came in and some things were not accounted for."
"Sometimes it's very hard to project how much it will cost for the monthly subscription for the next month when you add certain features. Having better visibility of the cost would give a better experience."
"The tool is open-source."
"While it is an expensive product, I would rate the pricing level at four out of five."
"It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Educational Organization
35%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cribl?
Cribl has a good community base, but unlike some vendors like Splunk, which has many TAs, Cribl doesn't have as many packs available. They need to focus on developing more custom packs for various ...
What is your primary use case for Cribl?
We use Cribl for multiple purposes. One key use is migration to Splunk Cloud. Traditionally, we used Splunk as an intermediate forwarder but switched to Cribl for this role. Cribl collects and send...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
Datadog vs ELK: which one is good in terms of performance, cost and efficiency?
With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good c...
Which would you choose - Datadog or Dynatrace?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Datadog or Dynatrace network monitoring software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Dynatrace. Dynatrace offers network ...
 

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