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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

    Galileo Suite

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AGalileo calls itself a proactive, data-driven solution for IT capacity and performance management. By offering deep, predictive analytics and access to unlimited historical data, the vendor aims to help organizations innovate and accurately align diverse infrastructure assets with capacity needs. The vendor says that with Galileo, IT teams can increase uptime, pinpoint usage trends, forecast demands, right-size environments and accurately plan for the future. The reliability of…N/A

    Splunk On-Call

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as VictorOps, Splunk On-Call is an incident response system for developers, devops and operations teams that helps reduce outage time.N/A
    Pricing
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    Considered Multiple Products
    Datadog
    Chose Datadog
    Better performance and visibility than what I was able to obtain out of AppDynamics

    Their OnCall offering is very fresh still, but is already almost at parity with Splunk On Call (VictorOps)
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog has been harder to setup out-of-the-box compared to its alternatives, although it's graphs and dashboards have been more useful. Other tools handle individual tasks better. For example, Splunk has been the best logging tool I've used, and New Relic is great for CPU and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog visually is up there with the rest of these products. For some projects I use datadog and others I use different open source tools. For our production environment we use datadog and with Puppet the installation on each of our servers makes it quick and easy to install. …
    Incentivized
    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    Chose Splunk On-Call
    Have used both
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
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    89%
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
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    90%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
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    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and Galileo Suite and Splunk On-Call
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Galileo Suite
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    Splunk On-Call
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    Remote monitoring8.22 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.22 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and Galileo Suite and Splunk On-Call
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.1
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Galileo Suite
    -
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    Splunk On-Call
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    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and Galileo Suite and Splunk On-Call
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Galileo Suite
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    Performance data reports8.22 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.72 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.62 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.22 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and Galileo Suite and Splunk On-Call
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Galileo Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Splunk On-Call
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    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control6.41 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogGalileo SuiteSplunk On-Call
    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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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    I recommend Splunk on-call is more suited where there are high incident queues; multiple teams need to be involved in handling a P1 severity issue. Multiple levels of escalation are needed environment where automated action is required. I recommend the solution for large-scale & medium-scale business units. For small-scale business units, I see the functional value is less.
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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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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    • Easily assign work/tickets between multiple users
    • Supports a wide variety of software integrations
    • Easy to manage scheduling tool
    • As part of the Splunk toolset, provides detailed levels of data analysis at our engineers fingertips
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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
    Incentivized
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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    • The user interface can be furthe improved
    • Licensing needs to be simplified and packaged as a bundle with other Splunk product like Enterprise Security
    • Customer outreach can be further enhanced
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
    Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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    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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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    Not a lot of love given to VO since the acquisition by Splunk from my POV
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    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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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    VictorOps support has proven excellent for us. Because it is such a widely used tool, there is a lot of documentation on usage, and a large community of users to lean on. Also, many engineers have had experience working with VictorOps already, and the tool is so easy to setup / manage that much support isn't really necessary.
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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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    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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    Cisco
    Splunk On-Call integrates better with our Splunk Cybersecurity and Reporting products due to the same family tree of the same eco system. We were previously using built-in on-call from individual applications and while adequate, they were difficult to manage and support SLA varied greatly across different applications. In addition we also used xMatters which did not integrate well with SAP products nor Citrix products so we were still using more than a single on-call product which was solved by implementing Splunk On-Call
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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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    Galileo Suite and The ATS Group, LLC
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    Cisco
    • It runs our on call rotation so it makes it easy for us.
    • It integrates with Slack so it makes it easy for us to manage through Slack.
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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.