BigID vs Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline comparison

BigID and Gigamon are both solutions in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category. BigID is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Gigamon is ranked #32 with an average rating of 8.3. Additionally, 100% of BigID users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Gigamon users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between BigID and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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BigID vs. Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

Cloudflare users experienced increased performance, security, and cost-effectiveness, leading to improved loyalty and revenue despite difficult ROI calculations.

Sentiment score

7.3

BigID provides strong ROI by improving compliance, data management, and automation, reducing fines and saving time and costs.

Sentiment score

4.8

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline boosts productivity and efficiency through reduced troubleshooting, improved security visibility, and optimized resource management.

For the small project I was working on, using the basic tier provided a huge improvement at zero cost.

Wellington Malagutti

Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of return on investment with Cloudflare, it costs my time to set them up, but basically once they're set up, it's done.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

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It is one of the best tools in the market.

Abhijit MAJUMDAR

Senior Manager at KPMG

We have seen returns across all three aspects: fewer employees needed, money saved, and time saved with BigID.

reviewer2789535

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I have seen a return on investment from using BigID, particularly as it is a regulatory and compliance tool that helps avoid potential penalties for non-compliance.

Aniruddha Nath

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

Cloudflare's customer service is quick, but technical support feedback is mixed, with improvement needed in responsiveness and detailed assistance.

Sentiment score

6.5

BigID's customer service is responsive, knowledgeable, with effective issue resolution, though higher subscriptions are needed for extensive support.

Sentiment score

5.4

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline's technical support is generally praised, though outsourced support presents challenges for some users.

Cloudflare does not offer hands-on technical support to fix customer problems but rather a self-service model.

reviewer1245303

Senior Consultant CDN at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the technical support with Cloudflare as excellent every time I've had to call them.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

I have primarily worked not with the tool's customer support but with the product's sales engineers and technical sales engineers, who seem to know their stuff.

reviewer2541525

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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BigID has one of the best technical support teams.

Abhijit MAJUMDAR

Senior Manager at KPMG

I would rate the customer support a six because you cannot directly reach out to L3 or L2 support if there's a major issue.

Aniruddha Nath

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

developing the custom connectors was relatively easy because of the courses I attended at BigID University and the support given by the BigID engineering team.

reviewer2789535

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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The technical support by Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is good because it has a local architect in my area.

TuanNguyen13

Senior Relationship Banker at Joint stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of V

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Users praise Cloudflare for seamless scalability, effective traffic management, easy upgrades, and robust global infrastructure without disruptions.

Sentiment score

6.7

BigID is scalable and adaptable, but some users find processes time-consuming and face challenges with data export.

Sentiment score

6.5

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline excels in scalability, especially in cloud environments, accommodating large deployments with ease and flexibility.

It is a SaaS tool, but the fact that they have workloads deployed across the world proves that it is a highly scalable tool.

reviewer2541525

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool offers very good performance, even during high-traffic periods.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

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I have added very large data sources to the BigID environment, and it remains stable.

reviewer2789535

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

BigID is scalable, allowing you to purchase as many scanners as you want.

Aniruddha Nath

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Cloudflare is highly rated for stability and uptime, with few past issues, especially on higher-tier plans.

Sentiment score

7.5

BigID is seen as stable and reliable, though users report minor issues and a learning curve with onboarding.

Sentiment score

7.2

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers stable, reliable performance in data centers, with high ratings despite minor issues in older systems.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The service is very stable with no impacts during high-traffic periods.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

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BigID is generally stable, however, there is a noted issue with bulk tagging that can affect scan results.

Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

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Room For Improvement

Enhancements needed in Cloudflare: analytics, CDN latency, API integration, user support, DNS, pricing, documentation, server coverage, WAF, and cache.

BigID needs enhanced file viewing, security, automation, regional classification, consent management, export functionality, and decentralized deployment.

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline needs security enhancements, improved GUI, better performance, cloud support, and easier setup and hardware handling.

Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor.

Bilal Mujahid

Managed Services Manager at Adapture Technology Group

Areas like how assessment, discovery, and payload are dealt with and how it all comes into your organization can be considered when trying to make suggestions to Cloudflare for improvements.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

There are some performance considerations when it comes to dynamic content that involves fetching data from databases or using APIs.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

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There is also an issue with incident tagging, where all objects get tagged without an option to untag specific ones, and reverting changes is only possible through MongoDB Central, which can lead to data loss for certain periods.

Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

I want them to focus on data mapping, assessment, automation workflow, and privacy incident management.

Abhijit MAJUMDAR

Senior Manager at KPMG

BigID deserves recognition for the data discovery part, which has been wonderful and quite accurate, along with the confidence level process that allows us to fine-tune results for better accuracy from the database.

Subhadsaha Shah

Assistant Manager - Cyber : Digital Privacy and Trust at Deloitte

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Setup Cost

Cloudflare offers scalable pricing, from free to enterprise plans, providing significant value especially for mid-sized companies.

BigID offers modular pricing suitable for large organizations, balancing high costs with customizable options for complex data management needs.

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is often seen as expensive, but pricing perceptions vary based on needs and roles.

I find it to be cheap.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The tool is a premium product, so it is very expensive.

reviewer2541525

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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BigID might be expensive as it involves various paid services, like data retention and graphic rights management.

Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

The pricing is competitive in the market, however, I need to ask for the right price.

Abhijit MAJUMDAR

Senior Manager at KPMG

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Valuable Features

Cloudflare enhances performance and security with CDN caching, DDoS protection, and an easy-to-use dashboard, benefiting many users.

BigID offers advanced data discovery, governance, and security with user-friendly interfaces and superior machine learning over Microsoft Purview.

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline improves network visibility, performance, and security through advanced traffic analysis, integration, and process efficiencies.

The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

Techniques like minification and image compression reduce the size of assets, leading to better performance and faster user load times.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The solution has been able to compare it to the market, and I think the product has taken great strides in automating quite a bit of things, and they use a lot of AI.

reviewer2541525

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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One of the best features of BigID is its strength in data discovery and governance.

Abhijit MAJUMDAR

Senior Manager at KPMG

BigID simplifies things by integrating both data protection and data privacy in one environment, making it easier for end users.

reviewer2789535

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of BigID is its large number of classifiers, which allow us to scan for specific data such as SSN numbers.

Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

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The Pipeline's Comprehensive Insights into data flows have helped improve operational efficiency and security.

TuanNguyen13

Senior Relationship Banker at Joint stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of V

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudflare

Featured Reviews

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

Has helped manage client domains with streamlined access control and threat visibility

I don't know what areas could be improved with Cloudflare WAF; Cloudflare is constantly improving and adding features to their feature set. They're doing a good job, and as far as DNS and support for any domains that I create or my clients create, it's mandatory for me to make sure that they have Cloudflare as their DNS provider. The Cloudflare load balancing capability hasn't really helped in enhancing my website's uptime and resiliency because we don't really get that much traffic; it's mostly remote users, and web hosting is done by a web hosting service. It doesn't pay to try to host your own website.

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Aniruddha Nath

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Data discovery has transformed compliance workflows and automation now speeds up requests and remediation

The best feature that BigID offers is data discovery and classification, which is the most powerful engine. It allows connecting to many different data sources, ranging from cloud to on-premises to structured to unstructured data. If there is no connector available, you can build your own classifiers as well. Regarding the custom classifier option, you can build custom classifiers using regular expressions, and I have done that if you know how to create regular expressions. Custom connectors are something you create to connect to a database where the connector is not available. BigID has positively impacted my organization as it's a very powerful tool, especially with the increasing regulatory compliances for different countries such as GDPR, CCPA, and India's recent DPDPA act. Having these tools in place greatly helps organizations avoid any penal charges for not being compliant with the regulatory compliances. For example, regarding compliance or reduced risks for my clients, the DSAR process I was talking about allows organizations to respond quickly to user data deletion requests under GDPR law, which traditionally has a 30-day or 60-day timeline. In larger organizations, when the number of requests is high, it becomes tedious. However, using DSAR automation with BigID, it's almost instantaneous; instead of 30 days, you can respond in just one day to what users have requested.

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TuanNguyen13

Senior Relationship Banker at Joint stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of V

Experience boosts operational efficiency while performance sees room for improvement

I don't have specific information on whether it was purchased on the AWS marketplace or somewhere else. I am working with Dynatrace Operator. I am also working with Algosec, Alluvio, CrowdStrike, Firemon, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, and other solutions. I think it's a good tool, and I am satisfied with it. We have not stored cloud workloads with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline yet; we are still on-premises. The technical support takes about one to two hours to respond, which is acceptable. I am satisfied with the scalability of the product. The interface is good.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

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Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

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What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

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What do you like most about BigID?

I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a stan...

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What needs improvement with BigID?

One area where BigID can be improved is the UI, which has a lot of bugs. I believe that if they improve their UI expe...

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What is your primary use case for BigID?

My main use case for BigID includes data discovery and classification, DSAR automation, and data remediation. I use B...

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What do you like most about Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline?

The most valuable feature for improving network visibility with Gigamon is the packet filtering capability.

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What needs improvement with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline?

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline needs to improve its performance. I face issues with performance because we use S...

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What is your primary use case for Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline?

I am working with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and Firemon, and I have been working with it for a year.

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Also Known As

Cloudflare DNS

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Overview

Cloudflare enhances web performance and security with features like CDN caching and DDoS mitigation while providing easy DNS management and intuitive setup through its user-friendly dashboard.

Cloudflare is recognized for its comprehensive web security and performance solutions. Speed improvements are achieved through caching mechanisms and DDoS protection, combining ease of DNS management with flexible page rules. The robust analytics and threat insight tools provide valuable data, assisted by a user-friendly dashboard allowing quick setup and configuration. An API offers dynamic DNS settings ensuring low latency and high performance across the globe.

What are Cloudflare's key features?

CDN Caching: Enhances website speed through content delivery network caching.
Web Application Firewall: Protects websites from online threats.
DDoS Mitigation: Shields against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
DNS Management: Offers easy-to-use and flexible domain management.
SSL Certificates: Ensures secure connections between users and servers.
Analytics: Provides insights with robust analytics tools.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Enhanced Security: Strengthening web security with DDoS and firewall protection.
Speed Improvement: Faster content delivery with CDN caching.
Operational Simplicity: Simplifies website optimization through a user-friendly interface.
Scalable Solutions: Scales with global reach, lowering latency for improved performance.
Cost Efficiency: Offers layers of valuable functionality with pricing options.

Cloudflare finds utility across industries for DNS management and defense mechanisms. Its content delivery network assures fast content distribution and fortified security. Businesses integrate features like web application firewalls, load balancing, end-to-end SSL, and zero trust to protect websites from cyber threats while ensuring resilience and reliable performance.

Cloudflare

BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.

Drives visibility and control for all sensitive & critical datah
helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem
AI automation
End-to-end data lifecycle management
DSPM
Data Security
Privacy Automation
Data inventory
Compliance

BigID

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline is a comprehensive network visibility solution that provides real-time insights into network traffic. It offers SSL inspection and mobile network monitoring for traffic monitoring purposes. The solution optimizes networks, aids in security inspection, and improves firewall performance. It is praised for its performance, power, straightforward integration, stability, and ease of initial setup.

With Gigamon, organizations can gain complete visibility into their network traffic, identify potential threats, and take proactive measures to prevent them. The solution is ideal for organizations of all sizes, including enterprises, service providers, and government agencies.

Gigamon

Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments

Amica Insurance, College of William & Mary, Gamma, IntercontinentalExchange, OppenheimerFunds

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