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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    ER/Studio

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AER/Studio is a database development and management tool from Embarcadero Technologies (acquired by Idera) in California.

    $2,687

    per year per user

    Pricing
    DatadogER/Studio
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Standard
    $2,687
    per year per user
    Professional
    $3,693
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogER/Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).Pricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogER/Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
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    Idera, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DatadogER/Studio
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and ER/Studio
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and ER/Studio
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.1
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and ER/Studio
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and ER/Studio
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    ER/Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
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    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DatadogER/Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogER/Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    Data Architect is well suited at organizations of all sizes. It is never too early or unnecessary to enforce proper modelling and design standards on data solutions, and this tool will help that greatly by providing an industry leading data modelling tool, ability to import ETL mappings for data lineage, enforcing and managing naming conventions through the naming convention tool, and publishing of data dictionaries through the report publisher. I was successfully able to build models, provide traceability, and document source to target with lineage throughout for both the business (by providing business definitions in the descriptions), and technical teams (by documenting ETL instructions in text fields) along with field level mapping (by creating "Attachments" representing data sources, tables, and fields) providing easy search capabilities using business friendly terms
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    Pros
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has the ability to provide consistent field names and data types through domains, which are templates. This provides a way to have consistent naming of common fields, like CreatedBy and the data types for the fields. They also have the ability to change all the fields that use that domain to a different data type.
    • ER/Studio provides the ability to create custom macros. These macros can be used to apply everything from standard fields based on domains to naming all constraints and indexes. I've also used a macro that comes with ER/Studio to spell check field and table names.
    • My favorite feature is the ability to compare your data model to databases for deployments of changes, and to other data models.
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    Cons
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    • ER\Studio licensing can be cumbersome and upgrading from one version to another usually takes several phone calls and emails to the licensing group to get the update installed and running.
    • The repository can be slow when the model count gets larger. By large I mean 20 to 30 models.
    • A nice feature that I would like to see is table comments be displayed on the model along with the attributes. Currently you have to choose between the two.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
    Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
    Incentivized
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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    I can call or email support and both get quick turn around. The only issue is they are on the west coast (US) and have a west coast work schedule and I'm on the East coast.
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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    ER/Studio is the most mature, reach in features and quality and therefore useful. Unfortunately, it lacks compatibility with AWS Redshift.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Idera, Inc.
    • ER/Studio has had a positive impact on my project as we can develop the data model and have a clear understanding of business needs before we continue with the development phase.
    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.

    ER/Studio Screenshots

    Screenshot of logical data models in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data catalog in ER/Studio Data Architect.Screenshot of data glossaries in ER/Studio Data Architect.