We performed a comparison between Datadog and USM Anywhere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. USM Anywhere is highly regarded for its extensive reporting capabilities, thorough vulnerability assessment, seamless file integration, and user-friendly management features. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. USM Anywhere users have suggested improvements in self-service plugin management, database optimization, and third-party threat intelligence integration.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Some users say that USM Anywhere's customer service is knowledgeable and responsive, while others have faced delays and incomplete answers.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. The initial setup for USM Anywhere is generally considered to be straightforward if the user has technical knowledge. Vendor assistance is also available during the deployment phase.
Pricing: 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. USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective than premium solutions like IBM QRadar and Splunk, with pricing considered reasonable and relatively low.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. USM Anywhere has garnered favorable feedback regarding its ROI.
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"It has a nice UI."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"OTX is a great module that lets staff maintain and monitor updates regarding events in the infrastructure and takes decision to improve the security perimeter."
"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."
"It provides a single pane of glass view, coupled with a whole security ecosystem. The ability to manage everything from a central point, including vulnerability assessments, asset management - including the services provided by the various hosts, NIDS, HIDS, etc. - provides a very efficient way of dealing with things."
"As we have to service several servers, we can manage them in a economical way, which is beneficial to our team and business."
"We are able to get alerts perfectly with FIM and VA features."
"The most valuable features of AT&T AlienVault USM are the ease of management and knowledge of what is on the network of my customers. It's easy to understand the problems, and management our alarms and events."
"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."
"The solution has all the features that we need, however they do not work correctly."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"Sometimes the log is unclear, and the report is a bit ambiguous."
"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."
"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."
"It would be nice to see some machine learning and monitoring of the configuration in network devices."
"For creating new rules, you have to be familiar with regular expressions. I feel there could be something built-in to make sure that process is easier."
"AT&T AlienVault USM can improve searchable data. It should be available for more than 90 days. If you need more than 90 days of data, you have to put a request and they give you raw data, which is not easy to search. A good addition would be to allow users to search data older than 90 days."
"The UI and overall processes need a little bit more love. This shows in the error banners that come up when you select certain things. There isn't a day that goes by that the UI doesn't error out and I can't view events for an alarm."
"The vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improve. The tool has vulnerability scanning, but it is not that efficient."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 15th in Log Management with 113 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Datadog vs. USM Anywhere report.
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