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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Mid-Market (47.0% of reviews)
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$0 Per host, per month
Corelight
Star Rating
(20)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
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No pricing available
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Star Rating
(685)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in its Real-Time Monitoring capabilities, with a score of 9.2, allowing for immediate insights into system performance. In contrast, Corelight's Real-Time Monitoring is rated slightly lower at 9.0, indicating that while it is effective, it may not provide the same level of immediacy.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's Alerting feature is highly rated at 9.2, with users appreciating its multi-channel alerting capabilities. Corelight also performs well in this area with a score of 9.1, but some users feel that Datadog's alerting system is more intuitive and customizable.
- G2 users highlight that Corelight shines in Network Visibility, achieving an impressive score of 9.8, which reviewers say provides comprehensive insights into network traffic and security. Datadog, while strong in monitoring, scores lower at 7.6 in this specific area, indicating a potential gap in network-focused analytics.
- Users on G2 report that Datadog's Logging functionality is robust, with a score of 9.3, making it a preferred choice for those needing detailed log management. Corelight, however, has a lower score of 8.9, suggesting that while it offers logging capabilities, it may not be as comprehensive as Datadog's.
- Reviewers mention that Corelight's Intrusion Detection feature is rated at 9.0, which users say is effective for identifying potential threats. Datadog also performs well in this area with a score of 9.3, but users appreciate Corelight's focus on network security, which may be more aligned with their specific needs.
- Users say that Datadog's Performance Monitoring is rated at 9.2, with many praising its ability to provide actionable insights into application performance. Corelight, while effective, scores slightly lower at 8.4, indicating that users may find Datadog's performance metrics more beneficial for their operational needs.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Corelight
No pricing availableDatadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Free Trial
Corelight
No trial information availableDatadog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.3
18
8.8
508
Ease of Use
8.5
19
8.2
609
Ease of Setup
8.6
16
8.3
375
Ease of Admin
9.1
13
8.3
229
Quality of Support
9.1
18
8.3
453
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.4
13
8.5
216
Product Direction (% positive)
9.4
20
9.0
493
Features by Category
Operations
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.1
8
Not enough data
8.0
5
Cost Optimization
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.7
5
Administration
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Protection
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
8.4
7
Not enough data
Prevention
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Detection
9.0
7
Not enough data
9.3
7
Not enough data
6.7
5
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
54
Not enough data
9.3
71
Not enough data
9.1
62
Not enough data
8.8
57
Not enough data
8.9
57
Not enough data
9.0
50
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Experience
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
104
Not enough data
9.1
105
Not enough data
9.3
89
Not enough data
8.9
104
Not enough data
8.8
88
Not enough data
8.9
93
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
52
9.3
5
9.3
57
Not enough data
8.2
43
Not enough data
8.5
45
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Management
Not enough data
8.7
49
Not enough data
9.0
50
Not enough data
8.8
47
Analytics - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Security - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.9
119
Not enough data
8.6
115
Not enough data
8.8
110
Not enough data
8.7
129
Not enough data
8.3
7
Administration
Not enough data
8.5
114
Not enough data
8.5
95
Not enough data
8.3
93
Not enough data
8.6
7
Analysis
Not enough data
8.5
112
Not enough data
8.9
120
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
7.9
7
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
7.4
7
Automation
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
6.3
5
8.1
7
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
8.3
7
8.5
9
Functionality
8.7
5
8.7
10
7.9
7
8.0
10
9.8
7
8.0
9
8.1
6
9.2
10
Incident Management
8.9
6
8.6
12
8.6
6
9.2
12
Not enough data
9.0
12
Analysis
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Remediation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
8.5
17
Not enough data
9.4
21
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
9.0
19
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Management
Not enough data
8.7
19
Not enough data
9.6
19
Not enough data
8.9
19
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
8.9
89
Not enough data
8.9
88
Not enough data
8.8
81
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.2
83
Not enough data
8.6
85
Not enough data
9.0
89
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.1
8
Not enough data
8.1
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Visibility
Not enough data
8.9
77
Not enough data
8.6
71
Not enough data
8.2
69
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.4
70
Not enough data
7.6
65
Not enough data
8.4
67
Not enough data
9.0
70
Not enough data
8.8
66
Not enough data
8.3
71
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
8.1
62
Not enough data
8.0
59
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
7.7
5
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
47
Not enough data
8.8
48
Not enough data
9.0
52
Not enough data
7.9
42
Management
Not enough data
8.6
46
Not enough data
8.6
51
Not enough data
8.2
44
Not enough data
9.0
51
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.5
10
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Cloud Security Monitoring and AnalyticsHide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
Not enough data
Not enough data
Activity Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Sources
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Device Recognition
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Provisioning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Connected Device Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Platform
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.6
64
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
63
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.9
61
|
Verified
Analysis
Not enough data
8.6
60
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
67
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
68
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
71
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
59
|
Verified
Visualization
Not enough data
8.9
74
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
63
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Analysis
8.1
9
Not enough data
9.1
13
Not enough data
8.6
12
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
Response
8.3
10
Not enough data
8.3
8
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
Detection
9.0
10
Not enough data
8.5
9
Not enough data
8.3
11
Not enough data
Services - Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.6
113
Not enough data
8.9
106
Not enough data
8.9
118
Not enough data
7.3
99
Not enough data
8.4
105
Response
Not enough data
8.9
122
Not enough data
8.8
109
Not enough data
8.0
106
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
7.4
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.8
13
Performance
Not enough data
8.5
118
Not enough data
8.3
103
Functionality
Not enough data
8.5
105
Not enough data
8.1
96
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
111
Alerts management
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
8.0
45
Not enough data
8.6
47
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.6
39
Not enough data
9.1
41
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
9.0
38
Automation
Not enough data
8.2
38
Not enough data
8.4
36
Analysis
Not enough data
8.2
41
Not enough data
8.3
44
Not enough data
9.1
43
Not enough data
8.5
42
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
8.3
37
Not enough data
7.6
39
Not enough data
8.4
35
Generative AI
Not enough data
7.5
17
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.3
7
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.0
9
Performance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.7
8
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.0
9
AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.4
7
Not enough data
6.1
6
Not enough data
6.7
6
Compliance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.9
6
Not enough data
6.1
6
Agentic AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
8.3
10
Not enough data
8.8
8
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
8.9
9
Not enough data
8.8
8
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
9.1
9
Not enough data
8.1
8
Not enough data
8.5
9
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
9.2
8
Not enough data
8.5
8
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
8.3
8
Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Response
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
6.3
5
Feature Not Available
7.8
6
7.9
47
Records
9.0
5
9.2
55
7.0
5
8.9
53
8.3
6
8.5
60
Management
9.0
5
9.2
57
Not enough data
8.4
52
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Generative AI
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Cloud Visibility
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Identity
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Network Management
9.0
7
8.8
11
Not enough data
8.3
11
8.9
6
9.4
12
Incident Management
8.1
7
9.3
12
Not enough data
9.2
11
9.3
7
9.2
12
Security Intelligence
7.2
6
7.9
12
6.3
5
8.0
10
8.6
7
8.8
11
8.9
6
8.6
13
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Services - Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Corelight and Datadog are categorized as Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Network Monitoring
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Observability Software, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, API Marketplace, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Cloud Cost Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Corelight
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
20.0%
Banking
15.0%
Higher Education
10.0%
Education Management
10.0%
Computer & Network Security
10.0%
Other
35.0%
Information Technology and Services
19.0%
Computer Software
17.5%
Financial Services
8.7%
Internet
4.2%
Computer & Network Security
3.1%
Other
47.6%
Discussions
Corelight has no discussions with answers
What is the use of Datadog?
3 Comments
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
Does Datadog use AWS?
2 Comments
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 Comment
AN
Depends on your plan, log retention can be 7,15, 30 days etc, for long term you need to setup s3 archivingRead more
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