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About Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.	About With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Information Technology, Operations, Security, and Development teams	Audience All kind of IT environments, from just a few to several thousand devices
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Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.9 / 5 ease 4.9 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 4.7 / 5 support 4.7 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.5 / 5 features 4.5 / 5 design 4.4 / 5 support 4.6 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros I have all the essential info in my dashboard, or just 1 or 2 clicks away. Very easy to use and intuitive. It has easy to use configuration tools which allows you to quickly configure and customize the metrics and alerts you need to monitor your systems. It also provides comprehensive analytics and insights into your infrastructure and applications, so you can make informed decisions about how to improve your performance. Datadog is just an overall awesome solution for monitoring our systems and endpoints. The analytics Datadog provides are second to none, and it integrates with everything. Huge fan of the dashboards they provide. -It comes with a lot of useful features like visualization, error finding, and network mapping. -It has a high-speed log searching system. -It allows integration with other apps to increase productivity. -You get regular updates so that the user experience remains excellent. -It has many features like fast and powerful search for queries, creating graphs based on logs, and many more. -You can put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their time zones. -It has a simple UI and can Integrate with other apps like slack very easily to maximize your performance. Cons It could be less pricy. A bit too expensive for small teams. There's not a lot of third-party integrations, which could limit its usefulness for some specific use cases. The alerting options could be limited for specific types of configurations which could be an issue. Bit of a learning curve, but that's to be expected with such a comprehensive solution. -It delays the monitoring if you operate in a complex database structure. -It is a bit pricy if we compare it with other alternatives. -The setup and configuration are a bit difficult for a beginner or inexperienced people. -There is no role-based access control that is a security concern. -Navigating through User Interface consumes a lot of time.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The Pandora FMS's best quality is its versatility. It can be used to monitor any type of device, including computers and cloud setup. The system's monitoring and alerting features can also be fully adjusted to meet our particular needs. Additionally, Pandora FMS has a comprehensive dashboard that makes it easy to use and understand, enabling us to quickly set up. The high uptime and quick response times, it also has a strong reliability. Pandora FMS helps to improve the way in which various business networks are inspected and monitored, the main positive aspect of this platform is in relation to its excellent monitoring of network services, the complete platform in this regard, since it provides a panel quite complete and very well managed where the various data of the networks can be reflected, you can configure the routing, configure the Subnet mask and you can also configure the sending of packets through various business networks, in addition, you can also control the latency of each one of the networks, really this complete labor network inspection section helps me understand how all the networks we use in the company are connected, I can visualize a mapping service within the platform which helps me understand the distribution of these networks also allows me to understand the health status of each routing network, controlling the sending of packets correctly. The second positive aspect of this platform is the operation in real time, this operation in real time allows failures in time within each of the networks, in addition, it offers a graphic service where you can see the upload and download of packages in each one of your networks connected to the cloud, these graphs will help you transfer packets. Pandora FMS also has an impressive alert service, which allows you to configure it so that alerts are sent depending on the latency of your networks, you can configure these alerts to be activated when there is a latency of approximately 200ms. Pandora has been a very useful software when it comes to having constant monitoring of various services, one of the main things I liked about this platform is the widespread control that it gives me for all the business networks that we use in our company financial services, this platform allows me to know the mapping of each of our networks, I can see how all the networks are distributed through a map, which allows me to see the connectivity that our computers, our devices and the servers that we use for our company. Recognize that Network monitoring is quite complete, it allows to visualize the flow and transfer of data, it allows to detect the total number of packets lost, it allows to detect failures in the connectivity between the servers and the devices and it also allows to detect an unusual consumption in the speed of the Network. In addition, I also liked the way in which this platform allows us to know about the events that occur in all our computers, I can view all the log records in real time with the help of Pandora. Very fast to set up and easy to use. Notifications are very accurate and very detailed. Once you set it up you don't have to worry about it later. Software updates are done automatically. I like the abundance of information that I am able to find on the site. As well as the ease of navigation, made possible by the comprehensive menu options. Cons Setting up and configuring Pandora FMS can be difficult for larger businesses because it necessitates a certain level of expertise. The first negative aspect of this platform is in relation to how complicated its implementation is, implementing this platform from scratch is quite complex, since you have to configure the enrollment networks correctly, in addition, you also have to configure the alerts and the devices connected to the networks to favor the network mapping function, this process can take a couple of weeks depending on your work team, but in general, the main implementation of this platform is quite complex. Another negative aspect of this platform is the high cost that it has, despite the fact that this platform has great accessibility to your routing networks, and allows you to control the way it offers other services such as application event monitoring, which increases Even more its price, I consider this platform to be relatively expensive compared to other network monitoring platforms. The only problem that can be found within Pandora is that this platform is complicated when implementing it for the first time, since you will have to integrate the queue with different applications in which you want to have monitoring, this process can take you a couple of days, therefore, it is very necessary that a trained team is used to facilitate the main implementation process, in addition, the integration process with each of the networks, can also be a bit complex, so in general, this platform is very complex to implement. We use the free version which is only limited to 100 sensors. To upgrade to 500 would cost a bit too much for our budget. I didn't like the number of ads on the site. I thought they were a bit intrusive.
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Company Information Datadog Founded: 2010 United States www.datadoghq.com	Company Information Pandora FMS Founded: 2005 Spain pandorafms.com
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