Progress Flowmon vs Soda

Progress Flowmon is a network and security monitoring platform for detecting threats and examining network and application performance. Flowmon ADS applies behavior analysis to traffic to expose malicious activity, attacks, data breaches, and indicators of compromise, including in encrypted traffic. Network operations tools cover visibility, troubleshooting, capacity planning, dashboards, reports, root-cause analysis, and SLA measurement. Supported flow formats include NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, cflowd, NetStream, and RFC formats, plus cloud-native FlowLogs from Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Flowmon integrates with network access control, authentication, firewall, and incident-response tools, and provides a documented REST API. Collector and Probe can run as virtual, cloud, or hardware appliances, with hybrid deployment available. Progress describes scaling from small and midsize businesses to large enterprises. A free, expert-guided 30-day Proof of Concept precedes final sizing and pricing through Progress’s partner network.

Soda is a data quality platform for monitoring production data, testing data through development and deployment, and investigating issues. Its machine-learning-powered observability looks for unexpected changes without requiring every rule to be set in advance. Teams can test data during development, deployment, transformation, and CI/CD workflows. Data contracts let producers and consumers specify expected schemas, data types, value ranges, and other constraints. Soda lists integrations including Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Airflow, dbt, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, and PagerDuty, and offers three deployment models for different infrastructure and privacy needs. Its listed database support includes Athena, BigQuery, Databricks SQL, Dremio, DuckDB, Fabric, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Spark Dataframe, Snowflake, SQL Server, Synapse, and Trino. The Free plan is free and includes pipeline testing, metrics observability, and alerting and ticketing integrations. Team is $750 a month; Enterprise has no listed price. Soda lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, DORA, and GDPR under compliance. It was founded in 2019 and lists locations in Chicago, Illinois, and Brussels, Belgium.