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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datadog

    Score8.4 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

    Pandora FMS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business users to obtain information from their concerns in real time, visualizing the data in a direct way. The solution boasts users among companies and organizations in more than 40 countries around the world, who according to the…

    $2,990

    100 nodes

    Pricing
    DatadogPandora FMS
    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
    NMS Edition
    $2,990
    100 nodes
    Enterprise Edition
    $4,250
    100 nodes
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogPandora FMS
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).Licensed for individual nodes (agents), starting from 100 nodes.
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogPandora FMS
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DatadogPandora FMS
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Datadog and Pandora FMS
    Feature
    Datadog
    -
    Ratings
    Pandora FMS
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    PingPlotter
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Nmap
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DatadogPandora FMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogPandora FMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datadog
    Datadog works really well with complex microservices architecture like any E-commerce platform which will be having multiple services but they all are interdependent to others so in this scenario Datadog will be best to monitor these as it will show the transactions also between those microservices. If you are using multiple services in your architecture whether it will be cloud services or on prem services Datadog will be the best choice to monitor all those service with in Datadog so that you can see everything in a single place. But if you are having small architecture and few services in that then in that scenario you can use Datadog but it will be little costly as compared to other but obviously the features are very well.
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    I believe Pandora FMS is a solution that adapts to any type of scenario; it's useful for small businesses as well as large organizations. It more than meets the need to have a comprehensive monitoring system capable of sending alerts instantly and consulting historical data, logs, and trends. Additionally, for small businesses, the free version will be more than sufficient in most cases. And for those who do not want to deploy the service on-premise, there is an option for MaaS (Monitoring as a Service).
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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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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • All-in-one software
    • Flexible and easy configuration
    • Multi-platform
    • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
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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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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • The interface is not intuitive due to the number of options it has and its organization.
    • It has a free version with limitations, and another paid version. The commercial one has a quite high cost.
    • It has a certain learning curve.
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    Usability
    Datadog
    There is some room for improvement, but the Datadog team sends out updates frequently, and the UI is user-friendly for engineers, with no significant loading issues or region-specific problems. That was one of the key reasons we preferred Datadog; our company has employees worldwide, and it wasn't difficult to transition to the tool.
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    Pandora FMS LLC
    The solution is very complete, and even includes extras such as IPAM.
    Deployment can be a bit unintuitive at first, but once you become familiar with the solution and thanks to its automatic deployment options it ends up being easier than it seemed. The power and options of the solution are its greatest virtue.
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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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    Pandora FMS LLC
    The support team answers very quickly. They are always willing to find a solution to any need that is required by us or one of our clients.
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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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    Pandora FMS LLC
    Before using Pandora FMS, tests were carried out with all these tools:
    • Nagios
    • Zabbix
    • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
    • IBM Tivoli
    • PRTG
    • SolarWinds
    Pandora FMS allows simple customization by making adjustments to text files, developing agent add-ons without the need to be a programmer, there is no scenario where we could not take data and save it in PandoraFMS, IoT, industrial products, and everything that any client needs to monitor.
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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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    Pandora FMS LLC
    • Substantial improvement in monitoring service. Detecting alerts on time always results in economic savings.
    • Improvement in the periodic report associated with the capacity plan. The tool is indispensable in decision-making.
    • Centralization and tool savings. Pandora FMS's versatility allows centralizing several functions into a single tool.
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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.

    Pandora FMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Operation viewScreenshot of DashboardScreenshot of SLA Report SampleScreenshot of Log visualizationScreenshot of SLA report viewScreenshot of Netflow usage