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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

    Palo Alto Panorama

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAccording to the information provided by the vendor, Palo Alto Panorama is a network security management solution that intends to simplify and enhance cybersecurity processes for businesses. The product's primary objective is to offer various features, including unified policy management, centralized visibility, automated threat response, simplified configuration, unrivaled scalability, and rapid security adoption. It claims to assist organizations in efficiently managing their firewalls and…

    $9,500

    Pricing
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    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
    25 Devices
    $9,500.00
    100 Devices
    $23,750.00
    1000 Devices
    $71,250.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    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).—
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    No answer on this topic
    Palo Alto Networks
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    51 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Palo Alto Panorama
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.5
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Palo Alto Panorama
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Palo Alto Panorama
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Palo Alto Panorama
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Datadog and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Datadog
    -
    Ratings
    Palo Alto Panorama
    8.0
    14 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Policy planning and rule management00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Automated Policy Orchestration00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Device Discovery00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Policy Compliance Auditing00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Attack Path Simulation Testing00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation00 Ratings6.013 Ratings
    Vulnerability Scans00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Firewall Rule Cleanup00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score7.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (66 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (45 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogPalo Alto Panorama
    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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    Palo Alto Networks
    I think Palo Alto Panorama is suited for administrators of all levels because certain things can be locked down to certain permission levels. But there are executive dashboards all the way down to the weeds for the highest of administrators. This truly is a single pane of glass tool because you never have to go into the individual firewalls for anything.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • If you need to push a setting or config to multiple firewalls Panorama can do that flawlessly.
    • Panorama has its logging centralized and this makes it easy to locate and reviews logs compared to having to get logs from each device.
    • I love how the interface matches the interface on the firewall. This makes the learning curve less steep.
    • Adding new firewalls to Panorama is super easy and not complex. Panorama can push a lot of the config and settings so you don't have to manually do it.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • The ability to push out OS updates could be improved in Panorama. It has the abilities, but the use is not intuitive, to the point that we generally connect directly to the firewalls to download the OS updates directly.
    • Scheduling. It would be nice to be able to schedule jobs to run at certain times. Pushing out updates, like OS updates mentioned above, can require significant bandwidth. So being able to schedule that work for hours that would not directly affect the users would be a welcome addition.
    • The list of devices in the Templates tabs should be sorted the same way that he devices are grouped in the Device Group tab, rather than just alphabetical. If there was a way to chose the order of the devices, maybe by tag, that would work as well.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    Panorama has given us much more than we expected and the support for the product, by Palo Alto Networks has been great. We would like to see some improvements that I mentioned in another review, like scheduling changes, but overall Panorama has provided a very capable product and we are very happy with it.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    It is a solid product, it allows me to connect multiple devices and to manage my cloud, on prem and vmware firewalling devices. I can assign roles with the required visibility depending on the users. I can also consolidate all my logs into it to have a single pane of visibility.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    Palo Alto has a very nice customer support. People are very nice and were quick to reply, whenever we had an issue with the subscription or the blacklist tool. There is also a great deal of information on their website that covers each and every detail about the uses and the threat signatures. The community keeps on updating their information very frequently. Small issues are easily solved from the documentation, and for other issues, the customer support service is always present. However, on Fridays it becomes a little delayed as per my observation.
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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Palo Alto Networks
    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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    Palo Alto Networks
    Palo Alto Panorama and Junos Space Security Director have many similar features but Palo Alto Panorama excels in almost all of them. The monitoring tools in Palo Alto Panorama are easy to use and give more in-depth insight into what is going on in your network. Palo Alto's security is ranked much higher and the Web Application Security is also superior to that of the Junos counterpart.
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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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    Palo Alto Networks
    • At a previous company, I deployed Palo Alto firewalls to a data center, and 12 branch locations. This allowed us to replace MPLS links with IPSec tunnels between the sites. This resulted in significantly more throughput and soft savings of increased productivity. However, the estimated net of $220,000 in hard savings over five years is what is most impressive. I could not have effectively managed all those devices without Palo Alto Panorama.
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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.