Datadog vs McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog is a no-brainer for any environment that relies on multiple servers. Even for one server, it's so much better to use for monitoring and alert capability than anything else I remember looking at before we started using Datadog. Teams can even use it to track their progress of investigating an alert so multiple people aren't unknowingly looking into the same exact issue unnecessarily.

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Director in Research & Development

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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McAfee is a good solution if you're in a medium/large company and if you're looking for a solution that can be customized and expanded. I also recommend if you have the most common log sources on your environment, since McAfee supports the major log sources (but lack a lot of small vendors).In my opinion, I wouldn't recommend McAfee for small companies, since it's not that easy to manage and maintain.

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Consultant in Professional Services

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization/management

Deployment flexibility

Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools

Custom dashboards and workspaces

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair.
Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done.
Lightweight agent on hosts

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Anthony Zappala

ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect

WayfairInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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McAfee Enterprise Security Manager has a large library of pre-made correlations that reduces the amount of work needed to make it functional.
This is a core McAfee product that is still getting support.
It has a substantial amount of compatibility and integration with other products.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

User interface could be improved in some areas, looking for host information and the agent install link takes a bit of time.
Configuration of the agent is generally done via a config file which is a pro and a con. It would be nice to have some UI to configure various agent options.
Billing isn't entirely straightforward, they could use more reports to figure out the source of your monthly costs.

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Kevin Van Heusen

Software Architect

SpringAheadInternet, 51-200 employees

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If there is a requirement to integrate into other vendor products i.e. (log sharing) then this was very cumbersome.
Integration of vulnerability scanning that is available in other vendor products would be a good addition.
When integrating all of Intel's products a third party consultancy is usually required, where other vendor products can be configured without this additional cost.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Datadog 10.0

Based on 1 answer

The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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No answers yet

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Support Rating

Datadog 8.4

Based on 12 answers

Our experience working with their support found them to be helpful and quick to respond. Also, as many of their integrations are open source, improvements we desired could be tracked and even driven by us. Their documentation is excellent and makes integrating their tooling simple and makes standing up monitoring for new application a quick and painless process.

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Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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McAfee Enterprise Security Manager 6.7

Based on 2 answers

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager overall is a great tool. It is effective in today's setting, wherein lots of potential threats are lurking. Its operations within the network are seamless. Users won't even notice that a SIEM is working in the background. But in today's trend, most of the businesses is heading towards the migration to cloud, which McAfee should improve its integration with.

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Brandon Macapelit, CISA

IT Auditor

Unilab IncPharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

New Relic APM is a great application performance monitoring tool, but the agent was producing an increased load on our system compared to Datadog. Datadog also gives the flexibility of going outside of the boundaries of the application and looking at system performance as well, which can have a large impact on application performance.

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Stephen Groat

Senior Security Engineer

TealiumMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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We selected McAfee Enterprise Security Manager because the pricing is competitive in the industry. It is very reliable. The vendor offers good support in real time. Offers the results that we have been looking for. The ability to get the logs may be of last 2 years in a matter of seconds. The ability to retain logs for a very long time.

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Neil Johnson

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

UK Flooring Direct Ltd.Consumer Goods, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

One of our critical production databases went down a couple of weeks back. Just because we had the Datadog monitoring enabled for that database, Datadog sent the alerts to PagerDuty and we were instantly notified via pager and email alert. We could act right away and bring up the database within a few mins.
Ability to create custom screenboards have allowed us to track the critical and warning alerts in front of our eyes all the time

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Rajeshh Raghavan

Systems Analyst, Engineering

Dreamworks AnimationEntertainment, 1001-5000 employees

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McAfee Antivirus is not a leader in the field and I don't recommend this product.
HIPS and Encryption are easy to manage.
Great tool for enterprise deployments.

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Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP

Security Architect

Securicon, LLCComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Infrastructure	$15.00¹
Log Management	$1.27²
APM	$31.00³

Per Host Per Month
Per Million Log Events
Per Host Per Month

SaaS Edition

Free	$0¹
Standard	$15/host²
Enterprise	Custom³

Up to 5 hosts
Up to 500 hosts
500+ hosts

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

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McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Feature Rating Comparison

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization/management

Deployment flexibility

Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools

Custom dashboards and workspaces

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Cons

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Usability

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Support Rating

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Return on Investment

Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

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Datadog

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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