Datadog Reviews & Product Details

I think Datadog is a must if you want to make sure that your product is performant and reliable. The fact that we can find and fix bugs before our users ever interact with our users is such a crazy advantage. The amount of helpful data that datadog provides with little to no setup is amazing. The team has built a great product and I am looking forward to upcoming features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one disadvantage that Datadog has is that is very much built for power users. Terms like APM and RUM are so niche and difficult for new users to understand that datadog themselves had to build a whole learning/certification system in order to get people up and running in their system.

If Datadog wants to target users that are not engineers or data scientists - I believe that they will have to start rethinking their product from a UX/UI point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog has a multitude of useful features and integrations for our applications, from metrics and monitoring, to dashboards and cost optimization.

Our dedicated support team is readily available to assist us in adoption of any new features and tools for our applications.

Many of the monitoring and observability tools offered by the platform are easily integrated into our applications, especially those migrated to Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features are not as easily navigable and intuitive as one would hope; fortunately, our dedicated DataDog team is receptive to such feedback and always offers alternative solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is incredibly easy to work with. Creating widgets and dashboards is straightforward, with a wide range of tools at your disposal, plenty of templates and excellent documentation. We were able to prototype and iterate on our dashboards incredibly quickly and even complex visualisations were simple to setup.

We chose Datadog to quickly spin up a centralised monitoring stack capable of sharing our metrics with our external partners. Datadog made it very easy to implement this, with a straightforward agent install and pre-built integrations with many of our existing tools (NGINX, Kubernetes, etc). Once we had metrics consumed from our agents, we were then able to share our metrics with our external partners very easy, managing this process with ease. Datadog is now a central part of both our internal and external monitoring, as such it is used on an hourly basis by everyone from heads of department to engineers to support staff - each with a specific dashboard suited to their needs. Datadog's customisability and adaptability is simply great.

One of the things I have been most impressed with has been Datadog's support team. Through the UI, it is very easy to speak to customer support and the process is streamlined and effective. I have made use of this frequently both when seeking guidance on additional features and searching for support with an unplanned outage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing model can be hard to understand, particularly when dealing with custom metrics which can be hard to account for with their varied labels/tags. It would be great to get some kind of quote calculator so we can figure out how much a change is going to cost us before we implement it. Similarly, the rolling windows within which things are calculated can make assessing cost, on anything less than a month-to-month basis, difficult.

The access control for shared, external dashbaords could be improved. Currently, the Magic Link process does not give user-based access control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog's UI/UX is so well designed and has so many features. Easy to configure and monitor our springboot applications, not just application but server statistics also.

We can also assign alerts on slack and other platforms as per our requirement and needs.

It also provides us to monitor logs and cpu proccess, custom metrices are easy to create.

We can design our own dashboards as per the need.

Customer support is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The costing plans of Datadog are bit expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is about the best interface I've seen for a data rich product. Their UI team clearly spends a ton of time getting into the very fine details of how the interface should respond in an intuitive way, as I'm always finding small little bits of joy that make it really easy to use.

The product also "just works" out of the box with a bunch of the managed AWS services we use at my company. I would not be nearly as confident in our cloud infrastructure without Datadog to let me know what's happening! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some newer features that AWS released that I would like to see supported in Datadog's product--I have submitted a feature request but it has been pretty slow to get some of those updates made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog's products integrate seamlessly both with each other and with our other vendors giving us a centralized view of all of the metrics we need to monitor and improve our software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only downside is cost. Datadog is the industry leader and they know it! Custom metrics pricing should be revisted as it can escalate very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Super user friendly, I learnt Datadog directly via hands on. Site is super user friendly and easily understandable

2. Quick creation of synthetic tests, alert creations, monitoring,

3. Easily integratable with ServiceNow, PagerDuty, MS Teams etc.

4. Dashboard- Can have unified dashboard accross all the monitors- synthetic, logs, API, RUM etc.

5. Good log monitoring capabilities and indexing for quick searches

6. Most imp, amazing service- customer support

7. DD dashboards are super helpful and all my colleagues have it as their home page

8. Integration implementation is super quick as they have various integrators readily available for plug and pay

9. For syntheitc tests, you can set frequency, country, browser, timezone etc set for good and extensive testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Usually their turn over on the enhancement request could be a quarter

2. Customization if you have very speicifc scenarios

3. Multi factor authentication cannot be achieved

4. In Synthetic monitoring, the tree cases cannot be achieved like if else condition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog is a great tool for easy monitoring of production and development events.

Easy to implement with other softwares like Github,Aws,Azure,Cassandra,etc.

It can be frequently used to track and trigger multiple events and logs.

Great customer support available via chatbot,emails,call and slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a lot of benefits of Datadog but few points need to be noted:

1. The storage and consumption of data is costly.

2. Beneficial only for large organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, great functionality for monitoring backend apps. Scales well for applications under big loads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of it's pricing model, sometimes you pay for things you are not using. Easy to forget you have loads of metrics on some forgotten apps generating cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Fairly easy to get started with

- SDK for pretty much every popular language

- Supports everything from performance monitoring to logging

- Fast customer support

- Fantastic documentation

- Straightfoward integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Confusing UI

- The docs is expansive but finding things can be hard at times

- Instead of learning another DSL, I'd prefer to use SQL to query my logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

datadog provides massive amounts of data to generate insights into your system health. the support around datadog is fantastic, as there is always someone to share their time and experience with you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

while it is great for looking at metrics, i feel it lacks use for business monitoring. i would like more direct database queries to provide real time response situations for failures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Datadog is its ease of use and how well its individual product capabilities are integrated with each other. Datadog is used every day by almost everyone on our engineering team and is often mentioned as one of the favorite tools we have available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our developers love using Datadog and adopting all of its features. This requires a good cost governance strategy to make sure costs don't spiral out of control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to have tedious task like Log Managment be dealt with, in an efficient way. Ease of use and ease of Integration is a big plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is a major drawback. While it might be justifiable for large enterprises with significant budgets, for small to medium-sized businesses or startups, the cost can be prohibitive. The charges accumulate quickly, especially as you add more hosts and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really enjoy the fact that I can see so much details about my organization from each component offered by DD. The ability to see so much in one place has allowed us to become more proactice, than reactive to situatiuons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do have a hard time building things out that I want, but that could just be lack of knowledge still, overall my least favorite thing would just be some things are very complex, but i do think if i was better with the application those complexities would be beneficial Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easy integration with our systems. The customizable dashboards and realtime email notifications to my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found a way to integrate SMS notifications when a system goes down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All the information is centralized in one fully customizable tool with good documentation and hot dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upon first contact with it, it can be hard to understand the best usage of all the possibilities and customize the integration with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tagging is very powerfull and allow you to easily create dashboards and filters to help you with troubleshooting and views Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price model like 'pay as yougo' is very challenging when we're talking about a bank that has over a 36MM transaction a day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The variety of telemetry (features) that can be pulled in results in being able to make more meaningful decisions and process improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime pricing/licensing can be tricky to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UX of the platform and the ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not a dislike but i'd prefer have more detailed documentation, maybe also more blog posts about some of the advanced capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Me gusta la interfaz y el hecho de que DataDog continúa agregando nuevas integraciones, soportan todas las plataformas principales, es una gran herramienta para DevOps/SRE, así como para equipos de ingeniería de productos. Nuestro equipo utiliza una serie de funciones de DD, hemos invertido mucho en los paneles y monitores, tenemos DD integrado con Slack y Pager Duty y es una fuente principal de notificaciones que impulsa acciones dentro de nuestro equipo de Operaciones. Datadog tiene muchas integraciones para casi todo, es fácil de usar si desea configurar la integración, especialmente para AWS y Kubernetes, le permite comenzar a monitorear su infraestructura en la nube. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Me gustaría que DataDog tenga mejores métricas de Kubernetes, las herramientas de alerta no manejan las terminaciones de pods ni los eventos de escalamiento de manera efectiva. También me gustaría tener más métricas avanzadas de Kubernetes, opciones de iac mejoradas para configurar DataDog. Un poco más bloqueado últimamente, dd-trace está obteniendo un gran monopolio para recopilar de manera confiable todo (rastros, perfiles y ahora, Seguridad (ASM)), desearía que hubiera un estándar abierto para eso, o que ustedes lanzaran un estándar abierto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog is very easy to integrate and has very good examples for all configurations. It can be implemented easily and has a number of features. It is used frequently by us for monitoring our services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is a bit expensive for advanced fea. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an amazing central resource for administering and monitoring all of our servers and apps. The nicest thing about DataDog is that it is simple to use and offers excellent value for money. It also includes excellent support and learning tools that everyone can utilize. We monitor logs across various microservices in our architecture, and I cannot overstate the importance of debugging unhandled exceptions in production. Datadog, unlike others I've used before, has a simple-to-understand user interface. Log management is the best tool for troubleshooting because the logs are thorough and easy to read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the integration and connection papers for setup are out of current and difficult to grasp for newcomers. You will need to contact the support team multiple times during the setting procedure. They are, nevertheless, fairly quick and eager to assist when required, It only supports apps written in Java, Python, .Net, and PHP; in the future, they should extend support for other languages to allow for greater industry adoption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrations with azure services and create alerts and sent to slack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not found much tutorials online and also documentation is bit confusing some times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

During our migration from New Relic to Datadog, everyone we've spoken to from Datadog has been extremely helpful. Love support for otel! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Log ingestion is very expensive compared to building something ourselves which makes it not worth it to you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its enormous portfolio of integration and services. It's really easy to use and we integrate it in both our mobile and web-based applications. We mainly use it daily to track metrics and even reports from customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at the moment. For my business needs all the offered capabilities are currently exported and available to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.