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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
DataDog is one of our must-haves
Reviewed on 2019/06/06
Pros
It's got everything that's needed for infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting. It also fits extremely well into our Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm where everything we set up is kept in a git repository as a Terraform project. DataDog is what we recommend and implement for our clients, and provides more useful features than Sensu.
Cons
Metrics and monitors don't render correctly on mobile phones. It's totally unusable in portrait mode, and barely usable in landscape mode.
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Sensu- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
DataDog is key component of our engineering stack!
Reviewed on 2022/12/16
Initially we had purchased DataDog to get some basic observability and to lift our logs into a central location. Quickly we began leveraging there additional features to gain deeper insights, better monitoring, and to speed up troubleshooting. DataDog is now a cornerstone of our software stack and everyone from engineers up and into DevOps/SREs use this on a day-to-day basis.
Pros
The software can scale with the business needs. You can start with basic features or leverage many as you like (for $$) to gain deeper insights. Engineers once onboarded use it heavily to spot issues or troubleshoot more obscure bugs both in production and development.
Cons
You often need to review usage and costs. Misconfigurations, migration projects (where legacy + new infrastructures are required), integrations which may cause double reporting need to be observed to prevent run-away spend.
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New RelicReasons for Switching to Datadog
We chose DataDog due to extensive feature set and existing product knowledge within the engineering team.- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Clound monitoring solution
Reviewed on 2018/02/07
Pros
Datadog is a SaaS monitoring solution, that could be used to monitor different aspects of you IT infrastructure. You can find pre-configured solutions in API marketplace, which probably cover all your needs after some fine tuning, otherwise you can build your own solution. Good and responsing customer support. Stable agents
Cons
Very poor set of solutions for Microsoft Azure monitoring
Very hard for new users, documentation is not very straightforward, so you`ll need to spend a lit of time communicationg with support
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 5 001–10 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best Application Performance Monitoring tool!
Reviewed on 2022/12/16
Datadog helped us solve a critical reliability and traceability problem we had with one of our customers. There was not clear visibility into the root cause of an issue when it happens and that caused finger pointing between teams. While there were other monitoring tools being used, they lacked the capabilities that Datadog has which provided much greater visibility and helped us improve the reliability of our system landscape. Onboarding was a breeze and customer service top notch!
Pros
Service Map, Session Replay, Custom metrics and monitors
Cons
We had a sticker shock after onboarding, as the was the hosts were counted for certain infrastructure was not clear from the documentation.
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DynatraceReasons for Switching to Datadog
Ease of integration, comprehensive documentation, good community engagement, good customer service, clarity in pricing- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 10 000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
One Consol for everything related to monitoring
Reviewed on 2022/12/19
Excellent.
Pros
I need not have multiple monitoring solutions for different Applications. So, creating combined Dashboards/Monitors/Alerts is very convenient.
Cons
Pricing is a little on the high end, but it's definitely worth it .
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Pros & Cons of Datadog
Reviewed on 2023/02/21
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.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1 001–5 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Datadog log monitoring
Reviewed on 2023/03/02
Pros
Able to see spikes on the dashboard , easy and fesiable
Cons
Takes more time sometimes to monitor logs
- 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 2023/02/27
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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
cPanel/WHM Log dashboard
Reviewed on 2023/02/11
Pros
We were up and running in one night. I have minimal dev skills and required my dev to setup with me. Seemed really easy with even the knowledge I had and the free trial made it simple to try.
Cons
When you initially signup make sure you choose the right server to log into. That should be in BOLD.
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A Comprehensive and Powerful Monitoring Solution for Modern Applications
Reviewed on 2023/03/06
Overall, Datadog's ease of use, scalability, and flexibility have made it a popular choice for modern IT teams looking to monitor and optimize complex distributed systems.
Pros
One of the most praised features of Datadog is its comprehensive and flexible monitoring capabilities. It can collect and analyze data from various sources, such as servers, containers, databases, and cloud services, providing a unified view of the entire IT infrastructure.
Cons
Datadog pricing model, which can be relatively expensive for smaller organizations or startups
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1 001–5 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Datadog Review
Reviewed on 2019/10/02
Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would have been great if it had great learning resources to explore it more.
Pros
- The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards.
- Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval.
- It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs.
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Cons
- A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs.
- UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 5 001–10 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Datadog is awesome!
Reviewed on 2022/12/14
Been great. I wish we could onboard across all Yahoo, but the cost is too high for all engineering to benefit.
Pros
Datadog is intuitive, easy to configure, and easy to use.
Cons
The cost for Datadog is too expensive.
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New RelicReasons for Choosing Datadog
Couldn't handle scale or cloud applications.Reasons for Switching to Datadog
We needed something immediately to get off our homegrown solution. We are still doing pocs with other vendors (Splunk, dynatrace) due to cost.- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Excellent product
Reviewed on 2022/12/16
We're monitoring our complete stack, migrating from Heroku to AWS
Pros
Ease of use and integrations. Log management is outstanding, as well as Kubernetes integration
Cons
Lack of a simple Prometheus integration. Agent configuration docs (for specifics) is sometimes hard to find
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Observability super powers
Reviewed on 2022/12/14
Pros
Being able to funnel AWS CloudWatch logs into Datadog made speed of deployment of Datadog incredibly fast - days instead of weeks.The log searching and faceting are extremely powerful. It's responsive, everything loads fast, and I can find single log lines in seconds.
Cons
Being able to create facets on historical data would be great.When digging into log lines, being able to navigate back to previous lines that we read through would be great too. Sometimes we're clicking around so fast that a log line is long gone. I end up copying the URL and pasting it into a doc so I can refer back to it.
Reasons for Choosing Datadog
We needed to be able to quickly search and facet logs, and view live logs, and have something that didn't require much more structure than logging out some JSON.- 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 2022/12/14
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!!!
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PRTG Network MonitorSwitched From
PRTG Network Monitor- 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 2022/12/14
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.
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AppOpticsReasons for Choosing Datadog
Price and ease of use- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Gamechanging Lifesaver
Reviewed on 2022/12/15
Pros
Can monitor ANYTHING. Centralized place for log analysis, security monitoring, end user monitoring, custom business metrics. Report and alert.
Cons
Some items visible in the UI are not capable of being monitored. Unable to get APM for PHP working under litespeed.Improvements in alerting would be nice, better escalation, SMS integration, etc.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Datadog is best in class
Reviewed on 2022/12/14
Love it, could not imagine better.
Pros
Easy to use and gives us the data we need to understand what is happening in our applications.
Cons
It has taken us a while to implement. Ebs support is not as intuitive as others.
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great service for monitoring
Reviewed on 2018/01/30
Pros
Datadog provides a way of having a lot of information about your systems, clusters and infrastructure in only one site, being able to analyze valuable data for your company. It is possible to create alarms and notifications when overpassing some threshold or value, for example, when a service is down in your systems of when the CPU gets a high percentage of usage.
It integrates pretty well with tons of services and systems, such as Amazon Web Services, Apache, Nginx, several databases, and a long etcetera. Also, it is possible to send notifications to apps like Slack or Hipchat.
Cons
Datadog is not very easy to use at the beginning and it needs a little bit of investigation but it is worth to learn it.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Datadog Review
Reviewed on 2022/10/22
Making the decision to utilize Datadog really facilitated my job. One of the finest tools that I can use to keep an eye on the performance and health of my projects is the study of the logs. This gadget works nicely and is quite practical. Real-time logging is effective. Definitely essential.
Pros
From my opinion, with the most excellent features that Datadog has as user can track and take after logs in real time, something truly imperative to have within the case of extend is live. I usually like the idea of creating custom sees of sets of logs (with custom channels, information parsing and a parcel more) which user will share them together with the user group.
Cons
Setting it up for the first time, seems like is a little challenging which is not at all simple to use or understand all the capabilities that Datadog provides at first. Interface is challenging and occasionally a roadblock. Then, filters are not very helpful if user fields are not properly mapped.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Monitor full stack app performance with Datadog
Reviewed on 2019/05/11
Pros
For our AWS deployment, we use Datadog for application performance and server monitoring as well as synthetic HTTP tests . DataDog enables real-time information and measuring engineering-specific metrics and allows you to control how you trace and diagnose data. If you are looking to track the time it takes for a web hook to fire after an asynchronous request has been made, you can store the time the request has been sent in your database and when the webhook fires for that request, measure the delta and send it to DataDog. DataDog integrates with Slack, which allows for alerts on average and max thresholds.
Cons
Datadog has a mature product but features are limited, the tool feels dated and the UI is very plain.
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10 000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Datadog experience
Reviewed on 2022/12/16
It's a good tool, needs to improve the collaboration of the support team.
Pros
Building Dashboards, Observability at the granular level
Cons
Terminology , need to distinguish different resources and not tag them as one
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Dynatrace- Industry: Market Research
- Company size: 5 001–10 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
maintain observability with Datadog
Reviewed on 2022/12/14
Pros
Ease of use and flexibility. Beginning teams can leverage out of the box but you can grow into this product as it is quite feature rich. The product just works.
Cons
It is so expensive that we consistently have to trim usage when not needed. Also due to this we have to justify the product constantly
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Datadog is a must have for any cloud base infrastructure
Reviewed on 2022/12/16
Pros
I love the ease of use, the up-to-date documentation, and the product capabilities.
Cons
Support is slow and lacking, costs can get out of control fast and are not straightforward.
Alternatives Considered
Splunk Enterprise- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 501–1 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Good tool for APM
Reviewed on 2022/09/21
It is very useful tool and we hardly getting any downtime issue with the Datadog itself.
Pros
We use Datadog mostly for our infra monitoring and log management. These features are very useful as they are real-time, helps to make sure our services are up and running, provide alerts whenever there's anomaly, and we can always trace back using their logs.
Cons
Pretty pricey and their UI is not easy to understand, first time user will need more time to adjust.