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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco SecureX

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACisco Threat Response automates integrations across select Cisco Security products and accelerates key security operations functions: detection, investigation, and remediation. Threat Response integrates threat intelligence from Cisco Talos and third-party sources, which adds context from integrated Cisco Security products automatically so you know instantly which of your systems was targeted and how.N/A

    Datadog

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ADatadog 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
    Cisco SecureXDatadog
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Cisco SecureXDatadog
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    Cisco SecureXDatadog
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Cisco SecureX and Datadog
    Feature
    Cisco SecureX
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Cisco SecureX and Datadog
    Feature
    Cisco SecureX
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    6.5
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Service configuration management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Cisco SecureX and Datadog
    Feature
    Cisco SecureX
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Cisco SecureX and Datadog
    Feature
    Cisco SecureX
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Administrator access control00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco SecureXDatadog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (66 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (45 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco SecureXDatadog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    This is perfect for organisations with small or limited security teams who want to get more from their Cisco and third-party investments. With Secure Endpoint makes detecting and responding to threats much easier. Any organisation looking to overhaul its security infrastructure or even wrap around its cloud-first strategy with solutions such as Intune should seriously look at Cisco’s suite of products. I’ve implemented Secure Endpoint, Umbrella, and Duo for customers primarily using Intune for device management, and the cool new insight features in Cisco SecureX really help with visibility over their estate.
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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
    Cisco
    • So the product enables end users to get visibility into their security environment, not only across the Cisco products but across the third-party products as well. The product also automates detection and response. So the product really offers end-user efficiency in the security operations center.
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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
    Cisco
    • Of course, many companies prefer to obtain security from the cloud; however, not all of them prefer it, which is why having a local implementation would allow these companies to also use said software as their ally for their security.
    • Working with this software can be simple, that is, any threat can be visualized with greater precision, but when it comes to managing its orchestration, it is a bit complex.
    • Its integration with other software can be simple but with others it is not, that is why it would be ideal if all of them could be carried out in the same way.
    • Integrating with a larger number of third party software would be of great help, to further enhance the analysis and detection of threats.
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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
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Datadog
    Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Cisco
    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
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    A lot of the look and feel of both products is quite similar. There's several best practices on visualization that are followed in both and integration of common telemetry is comfortable and quick. But while Microsoft ATP offers deep insights into mostly the Microsoft environment and a limited view into other common sources, SecureX shines in all the non-client areas Microsoft's product seems lackluster in.
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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
    Cisco
    • It helps us easily Id the full extent of a threat
    • It saves time searching for data.
    • It only gives basic info I wish there was greater integration between all security offerings
    • It allows other techs to pick up where you left off.
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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.