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.
"We can easily push the policies to any of our gateways."
"Key features include the ability to include logs for everything that you do for admin. Also, it has web filtering built in and VPN."
"It has brought significant improvements, including features like spam and anti-spam measures, intrusion prevention (IPS), and advanced filtering."
"The most valuable feature for me is Identity Awareness."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Security Management is the high level of visibility"
"We are now able to monitor the different VPN communities in real-time."
"The firewall cleverly handles such attacks without compromising on performance."
"The interface also makes it easy for us to configure the VPN from the GUI rather than the command line, which makes it easy even for less experienced engineers to work with."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"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."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"Check Point's hybrid cloud integration needs significant improvements. These resources need to evolve as data transfers to the cloud increase, so hybrid cloud models are easier to implement. Better hybrid cloud integration would improve how we manage our security logs and provide our administrators with a low-cost solution that enables them to meet all our essential requirements."
"The tracking of new threats could be improved."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"Check Point Security Management lacks some of the competitor features."
"Sometimes the security system slows down when it is overloaded."
"The tool is expensive."
"I would like it to be the administrator of equipment or Next Generation firewalls (which have to be managed on this platform) and to be able to manage other services (like Harmony) that also belong to Check Point."
"You need some technical expertise to use the solution. I don't think it's accessible to the typical end-user. You need to access the box and use some command lines or the web interface. It would be nice to have a user-friendly dashboard and comprehensive reporting."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
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Check Point Security Management is ranked 10th 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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