Datadog vs SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) | TrustRadius

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Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 117 reviews and ratings

Score 5.3 out of 10

Based on 95 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Datadog

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

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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It does a great job of notifying us when accounts have been locked out. We can then find out the device on the network where the login attempt occurred.
Searching for incidents is now a lot faster with the implementation of the HTML 5 interface.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 201-500 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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All SolarWinds product suffer from slow response times in management portals. SolarWinds SEM is no exception. While it is much preferred over a "thick client" there is much room for improvement in speed.
If you use the email alert features with SolarWinds make sure to prepare you staff and team for the large amount of emails they could receive. Make sure to reduce the number of alerts so your team does not ignore the alerts.

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Director of IT Engineering

Pearl River ResortGambling & Casinos, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 7.3

Based on 2 answers

It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 6.7

Based on 5 answers

If you are familiar with SolarWinds then you can use this product it's as easy as that. If you have never used a SolarWinds product then it will take a minute to get how they do reports and make dashboards but that being said the tool is great and can make things very easy once you get a feel for how it works and get everything setup how you like it.

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Infrastructure Administrator

Compsource MutualInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Datadog 8.7

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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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 7.3

Based on 26 answers

The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material.

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Systems Administrator

SEKISUI SPIPlastics, 201-500 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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Senior Security Engineer

TealiumMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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SEM is much better value proposition due to being priced by node and not by size of the event database. It's also much easier to configure that Splunk and needs much less infrastructure to run. Out of the box SEM beats Splunk on functionality. We looked at many products and compared before choosing SEM.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Defense & Space Company, 10,001+ 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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For the price, it produced a decent value. It did a lot of the easy stuff well. I can't give any specific data given the objective of the product was to monitor very basic events in the environment.
There are free options that can do a better job.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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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

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Datadog

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Datadog

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Datadog

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Datadog

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

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