We performed a comparison between Check Point Security Management and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Security Management is praised for its centralized management features, user-friendly interface, and extensive monitoring capabilities. Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Check Point Security Management could improve by simplifying the migration of security policies, optimizing performance, and expanding its management API. Other pain points include threat tracking and documentation. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point.
Service and Support: Check Point Security Management's customer service is widely praised for being knowledgeable, supportive, and reliable. Although some users had problems with inexperienced agents and coordination issues, the overall support experience is positive. While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point Security Management is generally seen as easy to set up if the user has some expertise. Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor.
Pricing: Check Point Security Management is seen as a solid investment, offering flexibility and a good value for the price. Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained.
ROI: Check Point users said the solution offers a steady ROI over time. Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots.
"The management API is the best new feature for me. It allows us to further automate our customers' automated server ordering."
"The control is granular, so you can set policy profiles for different organizational profiles."
"Check Point Security Management has a great feature that allows you to automate the request of the automated server."
"Check Point Security Management has improved our organization because all corporate firewalls can be managed with a single interface."
"It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering."
"The intuitive interface also allows new team members to adapt to the technology if they are not familiar with it initially. It doesn't take much for one to familiarize themselves with the product."
"The compliance is great."
"I love the URL filtering as well as the identification capabilities which link with the Active Directory and work for me even with bandwidth regulation. These allow me to select to whom to do what, and when."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"I like that the Compliance software blade is available for free with the Security Management server purchase, but it is free for only one year - after that you have to buy an additional license to continue using it. I think such an important feature is vital for the management server, and should not be licensed separately."
"We sometimes have trouble with the performance of the solution. Maybe some performance tuning options could be added in a future release. There should be more visibility about which blade in your firewall is causing the latency."
"Check Point could improve by enhancing the networking in their solution in order to align it with the existing network architecture."
"The reporting should be improved in future releases. It needs to be very explicit. This is very important."
"For those not familiar with the Command Line interface, there should be an option in the GUI for operating backups."
"The web administration tool that allows administration in the browser must be developed even more."
"There is room for improvement in reliability."
"In the future, I would like the platform to be able to integrate or manage appliances or third-party equipment."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 9th in Log Management with 56 reviews while Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews. Check Point Security Management is rated 8.8, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Security Management writes "Great DDoS protection, high availability, and useful firewall rule implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Check Point Security Management is most compared with Wazuh, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, IBM Security QRadar, LogRhythm SIEM and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Check Point Security Management vs. Datadog report.
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