Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Log4j
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Log4j is a Java-based logging utility from the Apache Foundation, available free and open source.N/A
Check Point Quantum Smart-1
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Check Point offers security management architecture delivered from the Cloud designed to manage security across on-premise Firewalls, Networks, Cloud, Mobile and IoT. The Smart-1 security management solution is available in cloud and appliance-based editions.N/A
Datadog
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
$18
per month per host
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Log Management
$1.27
per month (billed annually) per host
Infrastructure
$15.00
per month (billed annually) per host
Standard
$18
per month per host
Enterprise
$27
per month per host
DevSecOps Pro
$27
per month per host
APM
$31.00
per month (billed annually) per host
DevSecOps Enterprise
$41
per month per host
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Log4jCheck Point Quantum Smart-1Datadog
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Firewall Security Management
Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Product A and Product B
Apache Log4j
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Ratings
Check Point Quantum Smart-1 Security Management
8.5
1 Ratings
7% above category average
Datadog
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Ratings
Policy planning and rule management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Policy Orchestration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device Discovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy Compliance Auditing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Attack Path Simulation Testing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Vulnerability Scans00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Firewall Rule Cleanup00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apache Log4jCheck Point Quantum Smart-1 Security ManagementDatadog
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.4
(55 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
9.2
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apache Log4jCheck Point Quantum Smart-1 Security ManagementDatadog
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
There is multiple reasons. All types are logging messages support not only string msg. We can use parametrized variables for logging Support advance filter for logging like (Data, Markers, Regular Expression) Support Plugin Architecture (We just use the dependency and Layout configuration with minimal config, and this will start to work) Integration support with application server Could enable.
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Check Point Software Technologies
It is very suitable to manage and monitor a large amount of network security information. It is not recommended to use the network information security management of a single firewall device in terms of cost.
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Datadog
Datadog may be better suited for teams that have a more out-of-the-box infrastructure, on the primary platforms Datadog supports. You may also have better results if you have a bigger team dedicated to devops and/or a bigger budget. We found that trying to adapt it to our use case (small team, .NET on AWS Fargate) wasn't feasible. We continually ran into roadblocks that required us to dig through documentation (and at times, having to figure out some documentation was wrong), go back and forth with support, and in my opinion, waste money on excessive and unintended usages due to opaque pricing models and inaccurate usage reports, as well as broken/non-functional rate sampling controls.
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Pros
Apache
  • Integration with java.
  • Configure logging levels.
  • Customize logging contents.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Centralized Database
  • Detailed and indexed logging
  • Securely connects to each device
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Datadog
  • The thing which Datadog does really well, one of them are its broad range of services integrations and features which makes it one step observability solution for all. We can monitor all types of our application, infrastructure, hosts, databases etc with Datadog.
  • Its custom dashboard feature which helps us to visualize the data in a better way . It supports different types of charts through those charts we can create our dashboard more attractive.
  • Its AI powered alerting capability though that we can easily identify the root cause and also it has a low noise alerting capability which means it correlated the similar type of issues.
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Cons
Apache
  • Fixed the vulnerability which is reported which affect many big brand.
  • There should be security check to check all vulnerability.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • The user interface is very convenient to use. To say what is missing. It is only not supported in the language system that displays Chinese.
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Datadog
  • Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
  • I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
  • I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame
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Likelihood to Renew
Apache
No answers on this topic
Check Point Software Technologies
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Datadog
Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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Usability
Apache
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Check Point Software Technologies
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Datadog
There are so many features that it can be hard to figure out where you need to go for your own use case. For example, RUM monitoring us buried in a "Digital Experience" sidebar setting when this is one of our key use cases that I sometimes struggle to find in the application. It appears that ECS + Fargate monitoring was recently released which is great because we had to build a lambda reporting solution for ephemeral task monitoring. But this new feature was never on my radar until I starting clicking around the application.
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Support Rating
Apache
No answers on this topic
Check Point Software Technologies
No answers on this topic
Datadog
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.
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Implementation Rating
Apache
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Check Point Software Technologies
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Datadog
Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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Alternatives Considered
Apache
The ability to customize logging levels and manage log files is superior to other products we have looked at; due to this we selected to go with log4j.
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Check Point Software Technologies
Far exceeds any testing we were able to think of when testing.
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Datadog
Our logs are very important, and Datadog manages them exceptionally well. We frequently use Datadog services for our investigations. Use case: Monitor your apps, infrastructure, APIs, and user experience.


Key features:


Logs, metrics, and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)


Real-time alerting and dashboards


Supports Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and other integrations


RUM (Real User Monitoring) and Synthetics





✅ Best for backend, server, and distributed systems monitoring.
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Good logging tools we can integrate with minimal resource consumption.
  • Ease of understanding.
  • Plugin play component Architecture.
  • Advance filter support can be used to filter all types of logs and events, which can be further analyzed.
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Check Point Software Technologies
  • Reduce personnel management costs
  • The elastic expansion capability solves the rapidly changing environment that needs to be changed.
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Datadog
  • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
  • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
  • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
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ScreenShots

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.