Devo vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

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Devo and Progress Software are both solutions in the Log Management category. Devo is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.2, while Progress Software is ranked #41 with an average rating of 7.0. Devo holds a 1.4% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Progress Software’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Devo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

Devo

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92% willing to recommend

WhatsUp Gold

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1,656 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Devo and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Devo

Ranking in Log Management

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (16th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (16th)

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in Log Management

41st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (39th), Network Monitoring Software (26th), Server Monitoring (14th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (20th), Configuration Management (21st), Cloud Monitoring Software (26th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Devo is 1.4%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Devo	1.4%
WhatsUp Gold	0.8%
Other	97.8%

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Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the biggest features of the UI is that you see the actual code of what you're doing in the graphical user interface, in a little window on the side. Whatever you're doing, you see the code, what's happening. And you can really quickly switch between using the GUI and using the code. That's really useful."

"We can ingest virtually any log source, which is much better than our previous solution."

"Overall, using Devo has saved us time when compared to our previous security solutions, and I estimate that it took us 10 times longer to achieve the same thing without Devo."

"It's very, very versatile."

"But from a SaaS standpoint, if not best-in-breed, Devo is certainly in the top-two or top-three."

"Those 400 days of hot data mean that people can look for trends and at what happened in the past. And they can not only do so from a security point of view, but even for operational use cases. In the past, our operational norm was to keep live data for only 30 days. Our users were constantly asking us for at least 90 days, and we really couldn't even do that. That's one reason that having 400 days of live data is pretty huge. As our users start to use it and adopt this system, we expect people to be able to do those long-term analytics."

"The ROI has been great as we could launch it in a few months instead of a couple of years, and when you put all the costs together, it is less to have done it than with the open source approach."

"The thing that Devo does better than other solutions is to give me the ability to write queries that look at multiple data sources and run fast. Most SIEMs don't do that. And I can do that by creating entity-based queries. Let's say I have a table which has Okta, a table which has G Suite, a table which has endpoint telemetry, and I have a table which has DNS telemetry. I can write a query that says, 'Join all these things together on IP, and where the IP matches in all these tables, return to me that subset of data, within these time windows.' I can break it down that way."

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"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."

"There is a flow monitor option, so we can trace the source IP, the destination IP, and top talker feature in this."

"In terms of pricing, I'd say that the pricing is nice and the product is good."

"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."

"The documentation is very good."

"We primarily use the solution to check the state of the network, monitoring thousands of devices and all of the internal network, and it is the first tool we use to see the state of the network for real-time monitoring."

"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."

"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution, but after that, it's possible to do almost anything with it."

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Cons

"I would like to have the ability to create more complex dashboards."

"Technical support needs to be more direct. For example, when we submit a ticket, the support team will delegate a task to the operations team, for example, or various other teams."

"The customer service is average. Technical support from Devo is helpful, but they can improve on the support model."

"Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement."

"My opinion on the solution's technical support is not as great as it could be because of the issues I have faced regarding the service management element."

"There is room for improvement in the ability to parse different log types. I would go as far as to say the product is deficient in its ability to parse multiple, different log types, including logs from major vendors that are supported by competitors. Additionally, the time that it takes to turn around a supported parser for customers and common log source types, which are generally accepted standards in the industry, is not acceptable. This has impacted customer onboarding and customer relationships for us on multiple fronts."

"Some third-parties don't have specific API connectors built, so we had to work with Devo to get the logs and parse the data using custom parsers, rather than an out-of-the-box solution."

"Where Devo has room for improvement is the data ingestion and parsing. We tend to have to work with the Devo support team to bring on and ingest new sources of data."

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"There is a very big gap in the support."

"The tool should focus on increasing its market share, as it is the only area of concern where improvements are needed."

"The interface needs some work."

"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive."

"Honestly, I do not particularly like WhatsUp Gold. I think we should get rid of it."

"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."

"Sometimes it's a little bit slow."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."

"I like the pricing very much. They keep it simple. It is a single price based on data ingested, and they do it on an average. If you get a spike of data that flows in, they will not stick it to you or charge you for that. They are very fair about that."

"Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes of ingestion by volume, and it's on a 30-day average. If you go over one day, that's not a big deal as long as the average is what you expected it to be."

"The way Devo prices things is based on the amount of data, and I wish the tiers had more granularity. Maybe at this point they do, but when we first negotiated with them, there were only three or four tiers."

"Our licensing fees are billed annually and per terabyte."

"Devo is definitely cheaper than Splunk. There's no doubt about that. The value from Devo is good. It's definitely more valuable to me than QRadar or LogRhythm or any of the old, traditional SIEMs."

"I rate the pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"It's very competitive. That was also a primary draw for us. Some of the licensing models with solutions like Splunk and Sentinel were attractive upfront, but there were so many micro-charges and services we would've had to add on to make them what we wanted. We had to include things like SOAR and extended capabilities, whereas all those capabilities are completely included with the Devo platform. I haven't seen any additional fee."

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"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

"The tool's price is reasonable. WhatsUp Gold is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

The price is considered okay.

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What needs improvement with Devo?

Perhaps Devo could add some features in the future on the network part. Specifically, I think they could improve network traffic analysis capabilities.

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What is your primary use case for Devo?

I have been using Devo as a partner and system integrator for three years. For log monitoring, the clients' use cases can utilize Devo perfectly. Compliance and security operation monitoring are th...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

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What is your primary use case for WhatsUp Gold?

My use case for WhatsUp Gold includes all device availability checks, bandwidth usage, CPU, and memory usage, as well as alarm notifications.

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Overview

Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

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WhatsUp Gold stands out with its comprehensive network monitoring, dynamic mapping, and real-time alerts, offering essential tools for managing extensive IT infrastructures.

WhatsUp Gold provides robust capabilities in network visibility through dynamic mapping and NetFlow analysis. The platform's interactive topology aids in pinpointing issues effectively. Auto-discovery ensures complete network device tracking. While offering an intuitive interface and integration with Cisco ServiceNow, users find server performance monitoring useful for incident handling. However, improvements are anticipated in application monitoring and Active Directory integration. The pricing model and customization options leave room for enhancement. Despite these, users benefit from its integrated dashboards for immediate device health checks and network updates, making it beneficial for large-scale infrastructure management.

What features does WhatsUp Gold offer?

Network Monitoring: Provides continuous oversight of network components
Dynamic Mapping: Offers visual representation of network topology
NetFlow Analysis: Delivers insights into bandwidth utilization
Threshold Alerts: Notifies users upon reaching set performance thresholds
Auto-Discovery: Detects devices automatically for complete network coverage

What benefits should users expect from reviews?

Comprehensive Visibility: Enhanced understanding of network elements
Real-Time Monitoring: Immediate insights into network and device status
Cost-Effectiveness: Competitive solution suitable for expansive networks
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies the management of complex networks

Organizations in sectors like telecommunications, education, and healthcare utilize WhatsUp Gold for their network monitoring needs. Telecom companies track switches and routers, educational institutions manage bandwidth usage, and healthcare facilities monitor device availability to ensure seamless operations.

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Sample Customers

United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel

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