Datadog combines observability and security products, built around the telemetry engineering teams already send it. Vigilbase is the cybersecurity operating system: it connects the security tools you already pay for, analyzes their events, and has the Vigil agent investigate and respond within the authority you set.
The short answer
Choose Vigilbase when your security team needs one operating layer across edge, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and email tools, whether or not engineering uses Datadog.
Keep Datadog when your engineering and security teams rely on its observability data, Cloud SIEM, and configured workflows.
Run both when engineering keeps Datadog for application and infrastructure health and security runs its tools through Vigilbase. Vigilbase does not read from Datadog, so confirm which team owns each signal.
How they actually differ
Datadog starts from application and infrastructure telemetry and adds security on top. Vigilbase starts from the security tools themselves.
Each native connector knows its provider’s datasets, so events arrive in a common schema with analysis already switched on. You do not have to build a detection library before the platform is useful.
Native connectors cover edge, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, and email security, including Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Imperva, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender XDR, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Zscaler, AWS, Google Cloud, Proofpoint, and Mimecast. Wiz is coming soon.
Log collection and analysis differ by provider, and a connection does not mean every response action is available. Where the platform cannot act directly, the investigation returns the steps for your team to complete.
What the operating system adds
Every connected tool feeds one auditable record. Each team gets dashboards over that record, and the Vigil agent opens investigations on high-severity incidents instead of waiting for someone to triage a monitor.
You choose the autonomy: keep actions off, propose them for approval, or allow low-risk, reversible actions to run. Agents work from evidence and remediate in scope. Humans set authority, approve changes when required, and handle exceptions. The record shows the investigation, actions taken, and verification results.
Vigilbase combines native Cloudflare integration with Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare. Confirm the required products, permissions, commercial terms, and operating scope with us.
Datadog in depth
Datadog Cloud SIEM analyzes security logs and provides detection and investigation workflows. Datadog also documents security workflow automation, so the comparison is not a claim that Datadog only produces alerts.
Datadog is strongest when security questions start in your own applications and infrastructure: traces, hosts, containers, and cloud services that engineering already instruments.
Tools without a native connector can send Splunk HTTP Event Collector-compatible logs to a custom source. Those logs are stored alongside your other sources, but they are not analyzed automatically and carry no response actions.
Pricing and scope
Compare written quotes for the same connected systems, data volume, retention, operating responsibilities, and response authority. Cloudflare Enterprise licensing and Managed Cloudflare have their own agreed scope. We do not claim a universal savings percentage or bundled coverage.
Datadog product scope and data requirements affect the quote. Compare the products, usage, retention, and workflow responsibilities required for your environment.
Default retention is set per dataset, typically 30 to 90 days. If you need a long-term archive or compliance retention, decide where that data lives before you consolidate.
How to choose
Start with the tools you already pay for and the security work you need done. On a discovery call, we map that stack onto the platform and show you the operating system live, including a representative investigation, a permitted response, and its verification record.
If your current Datadog workflow remains necessary, retain it while validating Vigilbase against the agreed scope. A migration plan should establish data coverage, response ownership, and acceptance checks before any cutover.