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Datadog Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice
Datadog is a powerful cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform designed to help enterprises keep a keen eye on their applications, services, and infrastructure. By seamlessly aggregating data from servers, databases, tools, and services, it enables teams to track performance in real time, identify anomalies, and optimize the health of their technological ecosystem. With its robust suite of features including customizable dashboards, alerting, and machine learning-based insights, Datadog empowers businesses to ensure high uptime and peak performance, facilitating data-driven decisions for IT and DevOps teams.
| Capabilities |
AI
API
CLI
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|---|---|
| Ease of use |
Intermediate
Advanced
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPhone, On-Premise Linux |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Datadog Pros and Cons
- Comprehensive monitoring and security features
- Over 900 integrations with various technologies
- Real-time analytics and customizable dashboards
- Machine learning-driven insights for anomaly detection
- User-friendly interface with modern design
- Initial setup can be complex for beginners
- Modular pricing can become costly as features scale
- Some users report varying experiences with customer support
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Datadog has really good log search, and overall tracks metrics well and supports alerting to many different endpoints. Automatic percentiles is a big plus for engineering. Good for debugging issues.
For making dashboards, sometimes the UI is overly complex and clunky. Also, there is an issue where rates are not averaged over individual minutes as expected, which confused some people on QPS graphs.
APM software, tracking performance and error rates for various services. Helps both detect issues via alerts and then also debug them with logs. The log functionality is strong, and fast.
I like that is is easy to use and intuitive.
I wish that there was a bit more detail when something is not delivered.
When users say that they did not get an email or text we use this to see if they did.
Excellent monitoring capabilities, full-stack logging and APM
Very expensive, but worth it for my use case. I just wish the cost were lower so the decision would be easier.
APM, logging, monitoring, and SIEM
Datadog is an amazing cloud monitoring solution that provides great insight and alerting and it's free to use.
Sometimes it is very difficult to understand a graphical report and requires a bit more technical knowledge to use. Different types of metrics require little reading and understanding.
It alerts when the server enters a critical zone so that it can respond in a timely manner.
Linked analysis tool to log, system, docker status...
at the first sight, it's very complex and hard to view
I checked docker status and firewall, it was detailed
Datadog is a platform for data monitoring and analysis. In real-time, you can see the whole technical stack of your firm. All of your cloud-based applications and servers may be viewed in one location. Provides a bird's-eye view of your entire organisation. Personalize your dashboards. There will be alerts sent out if there are any major concerns that need urgent action. Ability to automatically acquire and analyse logs, latency, and error rates together with other information.
Visualization of infrastructure flow. For novices, features can be a bit overwhelming.
It's never been easier to create applications than it is now. In a single software programme, there are many moving elements. We must always be prepared for the unexpected when it comes to distributed applications. Therefore, we utilizing Datadog. Our application stack is fully visible thanks to Datadog's cloud monitoring technology, which provides a seamless solution to combine the three pillars of observability.
Logging to Datadog is easy. Once events are logged, the Datadog UI provides the power to search those logs and create dashboards.
There's a bit of a learning curve for searching logs and creating dashboards. It's very much a pro tool, requiring some training.
We use Datadog primarily to log errors, monitor performance, and trigger alerts. It has first-class integration with OpsGenie, making it a perfect ops tool.
The very informative and easy-to-read graphs curated for the software service. It gives a great picture of the application's performance and helps find bottlenecks that might cause production issues at load.
The team needs to be ramped up to ensure datadog inclusion in coding best practices.
Figure out performance bottlenecks in lower environments. Keep an eye on production for any incident about to happen.
Easy to install and use. Excellent documentation. Capturing logs and then using datadog monitors to get alerts for failures.
The metrics feature of datadog could have added functionalities.
Alerts for service failures using logs monitors. APM traces to capture traceback.
I have worked for more than four years with Datadog for monitoring. Their dashboards are very useful and never missed alerting as configured. They have a vast list of application plugins which gives insights about them, just plug in with connectors and DD will populate the metrices for you.
Their capabilities to automatically populate stacks are minimal. DD should work more exposing their API such that customers can make use of them to automatically populate stacks with their metrices and alerts.
They are providing monitoring and alerting SaaS. SaaS itself is the benefit. I don't have to manage my on-prem monitoring and alerting solution.