We performed a comparison between Datadog and FortiMonitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"FortiMonitor is really easy to use for monitoring the logs on FortiGate...It is a stable product."
"The tool continuously improves, adapting to support new vendors and technologies. Importantly, it automates the process, triggering alerts when devices require attention, and eliminating the need for manual intervention."
"FortiMonitor's dashboard is very informative and user-friendly."
"The solution helps to see client infrastructure. It has many boxes and blinks green or red when the station goes up or down. We have different domains for the device groups that we monitor."
"With FortiMonitor, you can get all the logs of the traffic information of the destination or the source."
"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is user monitoring. We are able to see if the user is following the policy or not from their system. Additionally, the solution integrates well with Fortinet FortiGate and has centralized management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is what the devices are used for. We have big backups for our Cradlepoint solutions, but FortiMonitor is a great routing device and we love working with them."
"It provides the best firewall features."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"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."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"There is room for improvement in the FortiMonitor report. It is not ideal for showcasing to tech customers or managers, especially when trying to display high CPU usage from logins within a specific range of months or the most recent month."
"FortiMonitor's monitoring could be much better. It should be like, in Palo Alto."
"Sometimes, during high CPU usage, we cannot access FortiMonitor and must refresh it."
"FortiMonitor could improve by having compatibility with other operating systems, such as Linux."
"FortiMonitor needs to improve its alert system."
"I think the current features are really good for me, nothing else comes to mind right now. Maybe some small improvements could be made in the customization and configuration part of the UI to make it easier or more intuitive. Customizable UI options, like we saw in the demo, could be helpful for everyone. But in our operational environment, having clear health status and system details is crucial for us system engineers. One feature I'd really like to see is a credential management system. It would help us keep track of who's logged in and how many times, which is important due to user restrictions. Sometimes, we need to manage logins more efficiently, like logging off other users to free up credentials. So having a feature like that would be really helpful."
". Enhancements in the dashboard, such as clearer alerting, maintenance window management, software version tracking, and better visualization, would be beneficial."
"Sometimes, we get corruption when upgrading from firmware to the new generation, causing a lot of issues."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while FortiMonitor is ranked 37th in Network Monitoring Software with 10 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while FortiMonitor is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FortiMonitor writes "Helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools, but the solution needs to improve its dashboard". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas FortiMonitor is most compared with SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, PRTG Network Monitor, SolarWinds NPM, Auvik Network Management (ANM) and LogicMonitor. See our Datadog vs. FortiMonitor report.
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