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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

    Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/AUK-based Sophos provided Network Access Control technology. Sophos NAC Advanced has been discontinued since 2013.N/A
    Pricing
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    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
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    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
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.1
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score7.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Sophos Network Access Control would be most effective in an enterprise environment where there are many different groups of users, including guest users because it has the ability to block unauthorized users and control the access of guest users. It would not be well suited for an environment with less than 1000 users because as far as I know, the license requires at least that many users.
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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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    • Provides enforcement of security policies for Windows PCs
    • As part of the Sophos Security Suite provides outstanding protection from viruses
    • Uses a very nice web-based GUI
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Customer support was basically non-existent during the time we needed it the most. This should be #1 priority for any company.
    • Lack of support for Linux servers and Mac OS
    • The reporting system relies on information provided by the agents
    • Wide scale removal process needs some vast improvements. When using a batch removal script, it wrecks the NIC drivers to the point that they have to be removed and reinstalled.
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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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    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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    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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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    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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    Discontinued Products
    I have used Mcafee Antivirus Suite, Trend Micro, and Vipre Antivirus. I actually had more experience with Vipre than anything else so that is the one that I will be comparing it too. From what I remember, Vipre was more expensive but had better customer support. Other than that, they both do pretty much thing as well as what all the others do. I personally do not believe that any enterprise level antivirus solution is better than any other, it boils down to which one can your company afford, and which one fits best with your needs.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Positive -- We were able to control guest users access
    • Positive -- Using the entire Sophos Security Suite I only remember one major virus while I was with the company which saves on downtime, and IT man hours
    • Negative -- The time we spent removing this, and reinstalling NIC drivers because the removal process crashed them cost the company in IT man hours.
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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.