Datadog

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Cloud-Scale Monitoring Platform For Dev, Sec, and Ops teams.

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Juan
Juan
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The best ally to unleash the potential of my cloud infrastructure

Reviewed on 28/7/2023

The integration capacity is simply impressive. I can easily connect all my services and technologies...

The integration capacity is simply impressive. I can easily connect all my services and technologies, giving me a bird's-eye view of my environment and allowing me to easily identify any issues or bottlenecks.

Pros

What I love the most about this platform is its incredible ability to provide complete visibility into my cloud infrastructure. I am able to centrally monitor and analyze all my systems, applications and services, allowing me to make quick and informed decisions on any incidents or poor performance.

Cons

There are times when I have experienced difficulties with initial setup and integration with certain services. Although they offer extensive documentation and support, it may still require some time and effort to fully familiarize myself with all the features and settings.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cloud-scale infrastructure with Datadog

Reviewed on 10/11/2023

Overall great tool for working professionals and helpful in supporting cloud-scale infrastructure

Overall great tool for working professionals and helpful in supporting cloud-scale infrastructure

Pros

They provide great features for cloud monitoring and compatible with most of the monitors. UI is fast and support team is very responsive

Cons

It can be complex for someone who is new to monitoring systems and integration is quite difficult with other tools

Kaschief
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  • Industry: Airlines/Aviation
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great Experience with Supportive dashboard and management of Data.

Reviewed on 6/4/2023

Great with data monitoring

Great with data monitoring

Pros

Collect vital information and tracks data. The interactive dashboard helps me keep my information organized for effective use. this application monitors my data in the most efficient and easy way. The overall experience is wonderful for me and I would definitely recommend investing into this software.

Cons

I have no issues with the software so far. it's a nice application

Lucia
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Best Solution For IT Management

Reviewed on 27/3/2024

Pros

It has amazing network monitoring and IT management features
Setup and understanding it is easy.

Cons

All smooth with Datadog. No serious concerns

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Mining & Metals
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

The best monitoring tool

Reviewed on 19/10/2023

Pros

Regardsless its price, Datadog is considered the best monitoring tool I ever use

Cons

A bit pricy, especially on log data ingestion, need to monitor regulerly

Bishal
Bishal
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Has A Great Features, But Keep an Eye on the Bill!

Reviewed on 22/9/2023

Pros

It is awesome for monitoring everything - I mostly used it for apps and servers. It is easy to use, customizes dashboards, and plays well with other tools. Real-time insights are a big help. It is a bit pricey, but it's worth it for the peace of mind it brings.

Cons

It can get a tad pricey when you scale up. Plus, the learning curve can be a bit steep for beginners. And, the free tier isn't as generous as some others out there. It used a lot of my computer's memory.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

DataDog Review

Reviewed on 25/6/2023

I think Datadog is the best observability and monitoring platform out there, I think the only con...

I think Datadog is the best observability and monitoring platform out there, I think the only con and thing you have to watch out for is its crazy expensive

Pros

The breath of features you can have under Datadog is truly impressive, everything from Application, Website, Synthetic monitoring is covered under Datadog, so you have all your observability needs on one platform

Cons

Pricing, it can get really expensive monitoring on Datadog.

Alternatives Considered

Grafana, Splunk Enterprise and New Relic
Juan Carlos
Juan Carlos
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The essential tool for operational success

Reviewed on 12/7/2023

My experience has been very positive. Since I started using the platform, I have had a much clearer...

My experience has been very positive. Since I started using the platform, I have had a much clearer and more detailed view of the health and performance of my infrastructure.

Pros

As a user, what I like the most is its wide set of features and functionalities that allow me to have complete visibility of my infrastructure. I can monitor and analyze metrics in real time, correlate data from different sources, track performance issues, and receive instant alerts and notifications when something is going wrong.

Cons

Setting up and customizing alerts can be a bit complex and take me a bit of time to master. The ability to adjust alert thresholds and conditions could be more intuitive and easier to understand.

Martín Ezequiel
Martín Ezequiel
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Datadog in my work

Reviewed on 20/7/2023

It's a great tool to work with and easy to understand, and his dashboard is useful.

It's a great tool to work with and easy to understand, and his dashboard is useful.

Pros

The dashboards are easy to build, and his UI is very simple and easy to use.

Cons

When I searched for logs, I found that Datadog used a lot of memory on my computer and was too slow.

Kyle
Kyle
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

DataDog is great!

Reviewed on 16/12/2022

Pros

We now have billions of logs hitting Data Dog every month. It's a great tool for monitoring and debugging what is going on in the platform. We have alserts setup based on the logging so we are instantly notified of any issues.

Cons

Some of the JSON parsing on nested logs come out a little wonky. We overcame this by adding specific logs from our applications that we can search on.

Krista
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Synthetic Testing Rocks!

Reviewed on 14/12/2022

Pros

As a non-technical QA person, I needed a tool to help automate tests without a lot of the technical aspects. Datadog allows me to build and schedule tests by clicking through the online version of our tool, making it incredibly simple. It also records what's wrong and allows me to edit the paths at any time if we ever make changes.

Cons

I wish I was able to use this same functionality for our mobile app or even for processes like account creation. Since we push our sign up through a payment portal we're unable to use Datadog in the same was there.

Ayoub
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Datadog: Effective Monitoring

Reviewed on 29/12/2023

Pros

Datadog offers comprehensive and user-friendly monitoring, analytics, and visualization tools, enabling efficient management of complex IT infrastructures.

Cons

Pricing is on the expensive side. The documentation is too broad, adding to the complexity as a user.

Santhosh
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  • Industry: Security & Investigations
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Datadog is a Easy implementing, Friendly interactive Siem

Reviewed on 3/4/2023

Overall, Datadog can be a useful tool for businesses that need to track and examine complex...

Overall, Datadog can be a useful tool for businesses that need to track and examine complex systems, but it may not be the best option for many businesses, especially those with limited budgets or less complex monitoring requirements.

Pros

-User friendly-Easily implementable-Detailing of Logs-best fit for all organizations

Cons

Understanding Datadog can be difficult, especially for those who are new to monitoring and analytics. Nonetheless, it has a plethora of capabilities and integrations that make it an effective tool for tracking and analysing complex systems. Datadog's pricing may be somewhat high in comparison to other tools of a similar nature, particularly for larger enterprises or those with high data ingestion rates. It offers a variety of pricing plans, including a free plan, to assist organisations of various sizes and needs in finding a plan that works for them.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A Good Log Analysis Tool

Reviewed on 27/2/2023

Overall I am neutral on Datadog usage. If we don't have any other options like Elastic Stack then...

Overall I am neutral on Datadog usage. If we don't have any other options like Elastic Stack then we can use this.

Pros

Search Filter I liked the most in Datadog. We can easily find the desired data thru search parameters and on top of that we can filter out the data by specifying a date range.

Cons

In the Search filter, we have to follow specific Datadog standards. It becomes slow when data is available in large amounts.

Christina
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Datadog

Reviewed on 28/2/2023

Pros

A lot of fun for less money. Great software for monitoring kubernetes infrastructure. Very clear dashboards, monitoring is very intuitive, great to use. Setup is simple and installation of the agent on PC was seamless. Aggregate views into one clear dashboard and monitor all metrics at the same time according to various filters and parameters. Many additional features to enrich the data. User friendly.

Cons

In the time I have been using it I have not found anything that would not suit me with DataDog I have been very satisfied and it has met my expectations.

Mbonjo
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Best and excellent cloud-based monitoring and analysis of applications

Reviewed on 27/2/2023

Overall I love Datadog because of its super enhanced and optimized features ..it's one of the best...

Overall I love Datadog because of its super enhanced and optimized features ..it's one of the best of it's kind

Pros

Using Datadog has been an amazing journey, the feature of providing a unified view of the entire infrastructure of the system making it easier to work on makes it amazing

Cons

I haven't encountered any deficiency using Datadog

Tarang
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Pros & Cons of Datadog

Reviewed on 21/2/2023

Pros

Some of the pros of Datadog are:1. The APM feature of Datadog is quite useful.2. You can stream logs into it too.3. Its easier to look into metrics history4. Managing the downtime for various resources is simple.5. Visualization provided in the dashboard is quite intuitive.

Cons

1. JSON parsing of logs can't be done.2. It has a bit lack of proper documentation.3. Navigating to new areas in the dashboard can be a hassle.4. A bit overwhelming for newcomers.5. It has more customizations but less simplicity.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Datadog is a wonderful monitoring tool if you can afford it

Reviewed on 13/1/2023

Great, works very well, and it integrates with lots of tools. Support is also very quick to answer...

Great, works very well, and it integrates with lots of tools. Support is also very quick to answer any question from the OPS team.

Pros

Dashboards are very nice, agents install easily and granularity can be adapted to your stack.

Cons

Is expensive, very expensive. It makes sense if you don't want to worry about where to put your data.

Garrett
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Datadog Infrastructure and Web application monitoring

Reviewed on 16/12/2022

We resolved our infrastructure monitoring and web application uptime with datadog. It gives us...

We resolved our infrastructure monitoring and web application uptime with datadog. It gives us insights into our stack that we never had before and lets us review any past logs down the the website.

Pros

Ease of use, flexibility of dashboard creation and views.

Cons

Almost too many configurations make it feel overwhelming. there could be a little more documentation and guides to help point you in the right direction or have related tools in the datadog subset.

Drew
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Generally good, customer support could be better

Reviewed on 16/12/2022

Very helpful to have a full suite of observability tools. Customer support could be better.

Very helpful to have a full suite of observability tools. Customer support could be better.

Pros

Overall observability is good, and the way all of the offerings interact is helpful.

Cons

basic APM requires code customization, which isn't the case with competing products. Documentation for anything beyond basic integration is lacking. Customer support is a bit of a bait and switch; great during eval, and bad once you've bought the product.

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace

Switched From

Lightstep
Cara
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best all-in-one monitoring tool

Reviewed on 15/12/2022

Pros

Being able to combine all of our analytics tools in one place makes it easy to find the right information to investigate, monitor, and resolve operational issues quickly. Combining products like logs and APM traces makes both tools even more powerful for finding and understanding problems with our applications.

Cons

If there's one drawback, it's the cost, which can become expensive for monitoring high-throughput systems or systems with a lot of hosts.

David
David
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Log management + SIEM in cloud based company

Reviewed on 15/12/2022

We use it as log management and SIEM. In both roles it suits us well.

We use it as log management and SIEM. In both roles it suits us well.

Pros

perfect tool for public cloud AWS based company with also internally using SaaS tools only ... Huge number of connectors, usable dashboards and reporting, quite nice and fast search in logs which is good for incident/security incident investigation

Cons

we integrate yet with another tooling like Laceworks ... I think one tool can't fit all use cases

Shervin
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerfull Tool.

Reviewed on 14/12/2022

Very powerful and useful monitoring tool but so complicated to deploy at the first.

Very powerful and useful monitoring tool but so complicated to deploy at the first.

Pros

Diligence, details and deep of monitoring all detail.

Cons

capturing every single details, validity of details and more importantly capability to monitor everything!!!

Alternatives Considered

PRTG

Switched From

PRTG
Richard
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Well worth the investment

Reviewed on 14/12/2022

Overall, it has been a very pleasant experience in comparison to New Relic, Logic Monitor and AppD.

Overall, it has been a very pleasant experience in comparison to New Relic, Logic Monitor and AppD.

Pros

It is simple to setup and maintain. Plus the UI is really easy to understand.

Cons

Polling period of the alerts are not short enough. The lowest is every 5 minutes but if a site is down, 5 minutes is too long to wait to see if it is down.

Alternatives Considered

AppOptics

Reasons for Choosing Datadog

Price and ease of use

Switched From

LogicMonitor, AppDynamics and New Relic
Maalainine
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Very Happy

Reviewed on 23/12/2022

Pros

Datadog is on of the best observability tools. Well integrated in modern cloud infrastructure and applications

Cons

I would say the cost and cost management. From a FinOps perspective they can do better.