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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

Average score

Overall
4.6
Ease of Use
4.2
Customer Service
4.2
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.1

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Dnyanoba
Dnyanoba
Deputy Manager in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Datadog for log analysis of cloud

5.0 2 years ago

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.

Jack
SRE in US
Human Resources, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Excellent solutions that need some more explaining

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

All-in-one out of the box solutions for observability

Cons:

Documentation is lacking in certain APIs. Specifically, the python SDK seems to have features that aren't mentioned in the documentation for dashboards. The widgets are able to accept **kwargs that exist in the JSON definition in the dashboards, but not in the documentation

Angel
IT Manager in Spain
Automotive, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog has been a game changer for me to easily monitor my applications and infrastructure.

3.0 3 months ago

Pros:

I love the customizable dashboards and the variety of integrations available. It has made monitoring a breeze!

Cons:

The cost can be a bit high for smaller businesses and the learning curve for some features is steep.

Henry
Sr. DevOps Engineer in US
Biotechnology, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Best Single Pane of Glass Monitoring Solution

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall, I like DataDog a lot. It beats the various disparate monitoring products we were using before.

Pros:

APM and single pain of glass. This makes it easy to get host metrics for resource utilization and an easy traceback for exceptions.

Cons:

Searching logs is not as intuitive as I would like. Text search doesn't work when logs are sent as JSON. Simple grep would make things easier.

Federico
Software Engineer in Japan
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Very Helpfull

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

I can see everything in one place and it helps me identify and fix problems quickly

Cons:

It takes some time to learn how to use all the features. It's also a bit expensive

Anthony
QA Engineer in UK
Financial Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great tool

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It's been a very positive experience and had the opportunity to join a webinar organised by Datadog

Pros:

Based on how it is set up and connected you can find all your logs in one place.

Cons:

no cons I can think of at the minute as it meets our needs

Lakshmi
Software Engineer in India
Information Technology & Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great experience with Datadog

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

RUM has helped us in identifying the frustrations of end user, visibly view how the end user is interacting with our application and ultimately serve our users better and improve usability for them. Also the Datadog monitors for monitoring CPU and memory usage have been a real game changer in resolving memory leaks.

Cons:

Something to improve on is capture information logs whenever required in the RUM sessions in case we want to debug certain scenarios even before errors happen.

Terence
Technical Support Specialist in Canada
Information Technology & Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog the standard of logs

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall, datadog is a good tool that I use within our organization's tool stack to look at logs to identify issues and troubleshoot for our customers.

Pros:

The dashboard in datadog is very customizable, allowing me to view metrics and logs to my preference. This in my opinion, allows me to work very efficiently. I also appreciate the alerting system as it helps me catch and identify problems.

Cons:

The learning curve was a bit hard to understand at first, as there was a lot of options at the start that makes it feel overwhelming.

Vinay
SDE in India
Financial Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog has been super helpful

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Dashboard and session logs all at one place is good thing to have, also the services listed and getting data around it is also good. Information of service like chart, logs, APIs are good as well

Cons:

Tracing logs can be made bit more simpler like the most useful resource columns should be added directly

Rob
Sr. Front-end Developer in UK
Computer Software, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

My first exposure to APMs, I really like DataDog

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I really like DataDog. I love using it for live debugging mostly.

Pros:

I can logs from various environments and with many options to filter and seerch so I can tweak the settings and see the logs I am looking for.

Cons:

I found it a bit difficult to get my head around where to find what and how to make a simple query - but then it's probably because I was completely new to Application Performance Monitoring tools in general. Once I used the tool for some live debugging I got the hang of it :)

Bradley
Platform Engineer in US
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The Best in the Business

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Datadog is fantastic. Expensive, but fantastic.

Pros:

The easy of visualizeation and searching vs any other platform.

Cons:

Navigating is difficult, it relies on you memorizing icon means what, or what dropdown a service falls under.

Phuc
Software Developer in Singapore
Financial Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Happy switch from ELK to Datadog, and more

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall, I am happy with it. The transition from ELK stack to Datadog feels intuitive.

Pros:

Everything is packed into one platform, that makes it the single point when it comes to monitoring.

Cons:

Support for Maven and Gradle is not so great. It doesn't really know how to check for actual dependency versions used in my project.

Pankaj
Software Engineer in India
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Best Monitoring and Observability Tool

5.0 12 months ago

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.

Bharat
VP Enginnering in US
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Recommend data dog for complete monitoring solution

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

The quality of insights it produces out of box is amazing. Earlier we were using a set of different tools for monitoring and logs but it helped us consolidate them giving us over 80% in cost s saving and a much better picture of whats going on

Cons:

Implementation can be challenging to start with but once we successfully updated our based docker images, it was quite easy to roll it out to more services

Justinas
DevOps Engineer in Sweden
Telecommunications, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great tool for observability if you invest time in learning and setting it up

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Works very nice when you need to collect logs from multiple different platforms/environments. Good monitoring/alerting capabilities.

Cons:

As a large tool it has its own learning path. Takes some time to learn different concepts, but well worth time investment

Benson
IT Manager in US
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

The Valuable Data Safety App

5.0 11 months ago

Comments: Datadog has improved the data security procedures, and it gives companies the right operational support.

Pros:

The security measure from the program has been well implemented, and it resolves all the data needs.

Cons:

The most efficient data resolving needs are well captured by Datadog.

sreenath
Associate Principal Engineer in India
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

datadog review

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: V Good experience overall. Would recommend it to others.

Pros:

very good experience overall. It helps us to check the logs very easily.

Cons:

sometimes it has downtime, so our work is interrupted.

Bharat
Product Developer in India
Human Resources, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Best App for Monitor Our Application

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It is good application for monitor and view logs.

Pros:

It is user friendly and easy to use. We can monitor all error and able to see performance.

Cons:

Sometime container not showing we need to select deselect multiple time then it is visible.

Marko
Dev Ops Engineer in New Zealand
Telecommunications, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Datadog: A platform for the ages

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Support has been good, lots of native integrations with other platforms

Pros:

Search function is super quick, logs are easy to read and sort through

Cons:

I honestly can't think of anything, it has everything we need

Khatibur
Platform Engineer in India
Restaurants, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Real time Platform Monitoring Tools

5.0 last year

Comments: DataDog is the best observability monitoring tool to detect any type of error in the system. The user interface is very simple and customer support and account help our teams in providing training and guidance in case of any issue. It can easily integrate with all third-party tools like Jira, slack, opsgenie

Pros:

The most like features of datadog are it provides real-time monitoring of any happens In the system and it is easily customizable. With the help of logs, we can easily create the monitor and dashboards. It can easily use all other third-party tools and can create alerts. It also provides anomaly which works on past data and it is sensitive and useful. Datadog is also AI capable, There is a feature called Datadog Insight which can easily detect any error in the system.

Cons:

Datadog is a fairly new application, Learning advanced features we are not able to find much documentation and learning on the internet. It also stores limited historical data and licensing is fairly high compared to similar monitoring platforms.

Omkar
Software Engineer
Financial Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

I like datadog

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall it is really good. With the LLM integrations it is even better

Pros:

Ease of searching through the entire logs generated by my apps

Cons:

There is nothing to dislike, I like the current features alot

Hafiz Syed Ashir
Software Engineer in Malaysia
Marketing & Advertising, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Usage experience for data streams with Datadog

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: One of the best tool as compared to others to use for logs. Easy to integrate and use.

Pros:

The efficiency and features of the tools, how quickly it can fetch logs and extensive search features.

Cons:

Sometimes, it become very difficult to get log of a particular data stream or single stream and need to search alot of logs. Plus, there should be a text feature so don't need to click each log or hover feature.

Naga S
Tech Lead in US
Accounting, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Intuitive Monitoring

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Really good dashboards and insights. APM is my favorite

Cons:

Better UI with font and style could be useful.

Roberto
Operations Engineer in US
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

It is worth the investment.

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Has help find problems, errors. I think it keeps track of everything very well.

Pros:

Error tracing abilities. How everything is put together. I helps to find errors.

Cons:

Some tools are a little bit expensive to have, and there are really good cheaper alternatives.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Cloud-scale infrastructure with Datadog

4.0 last year

Comments: Overall great tool for working professionals and helpful in supporting cloud-scale infrastructure

Pros:

They provide great features for cloud monitoring and compatible with most of the monitors. UI is fast and support team is very responsive

Cons:

It can be complex for someone who is new to monitoring systems and integration is quite difficult with other tools