Datadog vs Oracle Enterprise 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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OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details.OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.

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Maurice Samuels

DBA

Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Remote monitoring

Network device monitoring

Multiple Server Monitoring

Multi-device monitoring

Automated alerts and notifications

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Patch Management

Service configuration management

Software and hardware inventory

Policy-based automation

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Performance data reports

Customizable reporting

Data visualization

Risk analysis

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Data backup and recovery

Antivirus and malware management

Adinistraor access control

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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Database status. Being able to see which databases are up/down, at a glance, allows us to quickly react to issues.
Reporting. We report on last backups, daily status, a host of metrics, and compliance levels of all our databases. With reporting we come into the office with a set of "status" reports and we know instantly if a database has issues.
Metrics. We have a number of KPI's and SLA's we need to meet. Metrics applied to the databases allow us to stay on top of those requirements as well as fix common issues without a DBA needing to log in to assess the issue.

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Joseph Szupiany

Database Administrator III

PacifiCorpUtilities, 5001-10,000 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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We also use OEM to monitor SQL Server. However, OEM only provided limited features for SQL Server. It would be nice if we can schedule backup jobs for SQL Server in OEM.
The ability to run SQL queries. You can't run queries in OEM. I have to go to SQL Developer or SQL PLUS to run. queries.

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Consultant in Research & Development

Research Company, 10,001+ 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 score

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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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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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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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Toad for Oracle is more suited for individual users who have a strong focus on database development, and it is not as comprehensive as Oracle Enterprise Manager. While it is quite decent in logical database layer tasks, such as schema objects and SQL, it lacks visibility into host level and I/O layer performance stats.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Internet Company, 201-500 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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When we were using Oracle GoldenGate, it made our life easy in terms of visually seeing the configuration and identifying issues easily
It also makes ASM management very easy instead of doing it in the command line
Creating policies and implementing certain standard configurations across all the databases is easy

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 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

Oracle Enterprise Manager Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

—

Rating Summary

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Feature Rating Comparison

Remote monitoring

Network device monitoring

Multiple Server Monitoring

Multi-device monitoring

Automated alerts and notifications

Patch Management

Service configuration management

Software and hardware inventory

Policy-based automation

Performance data reports

Customizable reporting

Data visualization

Risk analysis

Data backup and recovery

Antivirus and malware management

Adinistraor access control

Pros

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Cons

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Usability

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Support Rating

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Return on Investment

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Screenshots

Datadog

Oracle Enterprise 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?

Oracle Enterprise Manager Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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