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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CrowdStrike Falcon

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACrowdStrike offers the Falcon Endpoint Protection suite, an antivirus and endpoint protection system emphasizing threat detection, machine learning malware detection, and signature free updating. Additionally the available Falcon Spotlight module delivers vulnerability assessment with no performance impact, no additional agents, hardware, scheduled scans, firewall exceptions or admin credentials.

    $59.99

    per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)

    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
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Editions & Modules
    Falcon Go (Small Business)
    $59.99
    per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
    Falcon Go (Small Business)
    $59.99
    Falcon Pro
    $99.99
    per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
    Falcon Enterprise
    $184.99
    per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)
    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
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Considered Both Products
    CrowdStrike
    Chose CrowdStrike Falcon
    CrowdStrike is a very easy tool to manage. There is only one agent that is needed to deploy. This makes management much easier.
    Incentivized
    Datadog
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    82 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    84 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    75 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Datadog
    Feature
    CrowdStrike Falcon
    8.7
    98 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Datadog
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-Exploit Technology8.989 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.296 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Management8.997 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infection Remediation8.993 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management7.772 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware Detection9.396 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Datadog
    Feature
    CrowdStrike Falcon
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Datadog
    Feature
    CrowdStrike Falcon
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    6.1
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Service configuration management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Datadog
    Feature
    CrowdStrike Falcon
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of CrowdStrike Falcon and Datadog
    Feature
    CrowdStrike Falcon
    -
    Ratings
    Datadog
    6.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Administrator access control00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (101 ratings)
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CrowdStrike FalconDatadog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CrowdStrike
    Crowdstrike is a unified platform for monitoring endpoint devices, whether they're workstations, servers, cloud-native machines, or even mobile devices. It uses AI/ML to monitor anomalies and suspicious behavior, including zero-day attacks. It is suitable for large organizations but may be costlier or less appropriate for smaller organizations, those who want an on-prem EDR setup, and those who need custom scanning based on compliance requirements.
    Incentivized
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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
    CrowdStrike
    • The Log analysis is very detailed and easy to use.
    • Prevent and block all type of malwares.
    • Great threat intelligence which is very up-to-date with the recent cyber attacks
    • very user friendly in access and management
    • Automated feature of detecting, taking action and closing incidents using fusion workflow.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    CrowdStrike
    • Support - we are often tasked with running down problems rather than being directed by support.
    • The sales staff we have dealt with are not very responsive or timely.
    • I believe this is a product built for installations of 300 users or more.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CrowdStrike
    Crowdstrike has a large suite of tools built for helping the engineers triage and respond to security event whenever identified. The ability to customize the security policies and implement more granular policies to different devices based on the functionality is unmatched. Crowdstrike provides so much of ability in a decent budget which ascertains the value for money or ROI.
    Incentivized
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    Datadog
    Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    CrowdStrike
    I think it is a complete and very trustful XDR platform, with very few False Positives. It is very well supported by highly skilled professionals on all levels: from pre-sales engineers, Customer Account Managers and support engineers.
    Incentivized
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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
    CrowdStrike
    Any time we need to engage the Crowdstrike Falcon Complete Team, their response is switch, thorough, and they are sure to not close out any request until the customer confirms that they have provided an acceptable resolution. If I ever need anything from the account team related to the product, I also get a response from them within minutes typically to address my question. Top notch customer service!
    Incentivized
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    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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    In-Person Training
    CrowdStrike
    There is limited amount of learning that can be completed in an in-person training available. In my opinion, the self-paced learning provided by Falcon portal is more useful over in-person training. The support from Falcon is great and useful to overcome difficulties, if any.
    Incentivized
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    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    CrowdStrike
    The training provided by Crowdstrike Falcon is complete in terms of the depth of technical knowledge and teaches the users about going through with the platform. There are lots of jargons for different tools that Crowdstrike Falcon has and this training teaches them all which helps in managing the platform better. Plus, the regular knowledge checks are also very helpful for the end user.
    Incentivized
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    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    CrowdStrike
    Read the documentation
    Incentivized
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    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Alternatives Considered
    CrowdStrike
    It was just a legacy AV program onboarded during initial setup days. As the org. As it expanded, its threat landscape also grew, and we needed a next-gen solution to protect against evolving threat vectors. Falcon EDR was the one that solved all these in a single place.
    Incentivized
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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
    CrowdStrike
    • CrowdStrike Falcon's proactive threat mitigation has significantly reduced the risk of successful cyber attacks, resulting in tangible savings related to potential data breaches or system compromises.
    • The cloud-native architecture and automated features have improved operational efficiency.
    • The platform's real-time visibility and threat hunting capabilities have drastically improved incident response times.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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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.