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Datadog
What is Datadog?
Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM) provides insight into your application’s frontend performance from the perspective of real users. Every user journey is correlated seamlessly with synthetic tests, backend metrics, traces, logs, and network performance data, so you can quickly detect poor user experience and resolve issues with context from across the stack.
Who Uses Datadog?
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age.
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Reviews of Datadog
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Datadog for log analysis of cloud
Comments: Till now we have one of the good experience with the data dog as it is helping us a lot in monitoring our cloud and database server. A support from datadog team is also good thing to consider.
Pros:
The best feature of data dog is real time monitoring of logs and vulnerability scan which stands unique to save the server and cloud from further damaging
Cons:
The datadog user interface is very hard to learn and with the minimum training anyone cannot operate it fully also a lot of integrations are very difficult to operate.
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Datadog is great! Room to improve but definitely the future of observability
Pros:
For us the most liked feature of Datadog is the possibility to compare all data that we received from our platform. Being able to compare the platform status, the network status, the performance traces, the logs is really helpful letting us find issues where we couldn't find if we will do it manually.
Cons:
Datadog is great but it misses something, for example it could include a self remediation tool. Since every server has already installed a Datadog agent it would be so helpful if with the UX we could add, edit or delete custom checks in python or something like that, and if we could automate some actions programmed in the UX so we could work and integrate with escalation policies, alerts and more.
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Couldn't install
Comments: If you can get it running I am sure it's good.
Pros:
Looks like it should do the job, less log limits than other products.
Cons:
Spent days trying to get it working on a pretty vanilla Windows VM but never could get it up and running. Support pretty much just told me to read the documentation which wasn't really helpful after going over it ten times already. Had similar problem with another product and they could tell me the exact lines of the config and registry that needed changing.
Good tool for monitoring
Comments: Good tool, a bit expensive but worth it.
Pros:
A complete suite to track and monitor applications
Cons:
Sometimes is complete to track an error and complex integration with some clouds
Using Datadog to guarantee bug-free software
Comments: It's an intuitive program that provides users with comprehensive records of all recent actions. Displays success or failure of the process. If the attempt fails, identify the faulty stage. It explains everything from beginning to conclusion.
Pros:
All of Datadog's basic building blocks are top-notch. Their data ingestion is lightning fast and (usually) dependable, their graph widget is adaptable and usable in a wide variety of contexts, and they have a good track record of introducing products that combine these features.
Cons:
Our experiences with Datadog support have been continuously negative; the company goes out of its way to avoid direct communication and offers irrelevant answers.
