Datadog vs. Oracle Enterprise Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Datadog
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Datadog 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
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Oracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.N/A
Pricing
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
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
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
Considered Both Products
Datadog
Chose Datadog
OEM and Vertica Management console are limited to their own databases whereas Datadog has the ability to monitor multiple types of databases.
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Chose Oracle Enterprise Manager
Datadog is good at collecting metrics, monitoring, and alerting; whereas, with Oracle Enterprise Manager, in addition to all that, we can manage the infrastructure as well as automate certain fixes.
Features
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.2
14 Ratings
6% above category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
Network device monitoring00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.414 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.8
14 Ratings
5% above category average
Patch Management00 Ratings7.612 Ratings
Service configuration management00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings5.813 Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings8.811 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
Oracle Enterprise Manager
6.7
14 Ratings
12% below category average
Performance data reports00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
Customizable reporting00 Ratings3.112 Ratings
Data visualization00 Ratings7.913 Ratings
Risk analysis00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
Oracle Enterprise Manager
3.4
14 Ratings
59% below category average
Data backup and recovery00 Ratings2.512 Ratings
Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Administrator access control00 Ratings2.714 Ratings
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User Ratings
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(35 ratings)
7.7
(20 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(14 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DatadogOracle Enterprise Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
Where Datadog is good: - Real-time Visibility During Incidents: During high-severity incidents, Datadog dashboards, coupled with real-time logging and APM traces, provide immediate insight into system health and enable fast triage. For example, we’ve used trace ID correlation between logs and APM to quickly identify downstream service failures due to network degradation during a major outage. - Service Ownership at Scale: With over 50 engineering teams, providing self-service monitoring is essential. We use Datadog monitors, SLO dashboards, and templates so teams can track their own service health without reinventing the wheel. Tagging and RBAC features help us scope data access appropriately. Where Datadog can improve: While Datadog’s logging capabilities are powerful, storing all application logs in Datadog can become cost-prohibitive at high volumes.
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Oracle
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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Pros
Datadog
  • Create Dashboards as per application, environments, and Custom metrics in one panel.
  • Log aggregation, one-stop Application monitoring tools for the whole infrastructure.
  • Playbooks, SLA definition, success and error quotas, request visualizations.
  • DB monitoring, Serverless stack monitoring.
  • Alerting of Production incidents so we can quickly resolve the issues on time.
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Oracle
  • 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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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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Oracle
  • 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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Usability
Datadog
Datadog's user interface is quite friendly and easy to navigate. With menus clearly categorized, and ability to bookmark important dashboards, one can easily find what they're looking for. For dashboards, ability to move and resize visualizations and group them, is really helpful to organize dashboards. Automatic suggestions from Datadog for important visualizations based on the metrics and logs would provide another level of ease of use.
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Oracle
Navigation is clean and neat.
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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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Oracle
I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
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Alternatives Considered
Datadog
We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.
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Oracle
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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Professional Services
Datadog
No answers on this topic
Oracle
I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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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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Oracle
  • 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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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.