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What is Datadog?
Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring, security, and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications, logs, and more. The platform assists organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency and providing end-to-end visibility across dynamic or high-scale infrastructures. By collecting metrics and events from 400+ out of the box services and technologies, Datadog enables Dev, Sec, and Ops teams to ensure application uptime and accelerate go-to-market efforts.
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.
Where can Datadog be deployed?
About the vendor
- Datadog
- Founded in 2010
Datadog support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, Japanese
Datadog pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- Yes, has free version
Datadog has a free version and offers a free trial. Datadog paid version starts at US$15.00/month.
About the vendor
- Datadog
- Founded in 2010
Datadog support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, Japanese
Datadog videos and images
Features of Datadog
Reviews of Datadog
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.
Alternatives Considered: Panther
Reasons for Switching to Datadog: Price of datadog is very less when compared to other competitors and data dog has lot of feature which stands a top among its competitors datadog can work very smoothly in large data as well.
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.
Alternatives Considered: Prometheus, Grafana and Elastic
Reasons for Choosing Datadog: Pandora was not escalating like we expected and we wanted to search for a unified product that covers everything we need, server monitoring, database monitoring, APM...
Switched From: Pandora FMS
Best Monitoring and Observability Tool
Comments: Best and good experience with datadog tool.
Pros:
Experience with Datadog is Best. Using this Tool since 1 year. I worked on many monitoring tool but this is the one best for cloud and infrastructure monitoring. Datadog provides many third party tools integration, we did many integration and monitored many services. we can setup the alerts on our services for let us know before any unusual activity happens. and main thing is we can redirect that alerts to our notification channel and our teams to work on that. We can integrated our frontend and backend applications and we can collect logs also for our application and we can more debug it. They have built in dashboard feature we can manually create dashboards according to our use case. we can also create synthetic scripts and synthetic monitors such as ping for testing our website is available or not or its properly working or not. we can query our data and fetch it accordingly. Talking about AWS and azure services integration, Its totally easy our teams hasn't fetch any issue, its easy as it is. overall experience is good while using this tool best for keep our application and services up to date and running. They have active customer service.
Cons:
Nothing to dislike about Datadog, pricing is quite high but this tool has providing you lot more integration and active customer support so you can raise your query and You will get feedback fast.
Endless Sales calls
Pros:
Nothing. I haven't and won't use them because their Sales team is so hyper aggressive.
Cons:
DataDog got my cell phone number and that's when it all went down hill. For months they've called me — sometimes extremely early in the morning at time zone inappropriate times — to attempt to get our business. Just this morning, they called starting at 8am not once, not twice, but three times in a row each from different numbers. I've asked them to stop. I've begged them to stop. I've spoken with managers. I did so again this morning! But I've lost hope that I'll ever land on a do not call list because I'm convinced they don't have one. The product, frankly, looks good. It's something I'd considered using. But their Sales team is so ridiculously aggressive — who calls someone three or four times in a row from different numbers every five minutes at 8am? — that I will never, ever use them as a vendor. And if you value your sanity, never express even the most vague amount of interest to these folks because apparently they will never stop relentlessly calling you. To say that their Sales team has left a bad taste in my mouth is an understatement.
Datadog: Effective Monitoring
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.