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Website,Reviewer,Designation,Ratings,PROS,CONS
G2.com,Suraj S,CEO,5,"Detailing of Logs & Ease of Use also i like the easiness to implement and connect it with our System & Software..

Datadog came up with a simple yet unique software which helped me to tackle different attacks & abusive activities by our competitors.","I'm totally satisfied with the datadog & i'm going to share it with our colleagues too, so they can also use it to tackle these things if they need it.

I'm totally satisfied with the services offered by datadog."
G2.com,Asa T,IT Consultant,3.5,Datadog has tools that do not require a big learning curve. You can easily manage and monitor HTTP traffic in their dashboard. We can quickly take note of any spikes and spread out the workload.,"It is very robust and easy to learn, but it lacks some key components like automatic detection of devices and standard reporting. If you are looking to monitor network hardware or routers, this is not the software for you, look somewhere else."
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Patrícia P.",QA Automation Engineer,4.5,"Datadog is a widespread cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that provides real-time visibility into the performance of applications, infrastructure, and logs. Some key benefits of using Datadog include the following: it allows users to collect and correlate data from various sources, sends alerts based on user-defined thresholds, provides customizable dashboards that enable users to visualize data and gain insights into the health and performance of their systems, and supports a wide range of integrations (such as AWS, Docker and Kubernetes).","The learning curve for Datadog can be steep, especially for those new to monitoring and analytics. Additionally, the pricing is relatively high compared to other similar tools."
G2.com,Amit K,Software Architect,3.5,"So many Out of the box integrations which makes monitoring almost your entire tech stack is super fast easy and easy.

For example, earlier I was part of the search team and was managing 25+ large Elasticsearch clusters and Elasticsearch as a software has its own specialized metrics which we need to monitor and get alerted.

We didn't have to do anything with Datadog(DD) as Datadog already had a Out of the box integration with Elasticsearch and documentation for same can be easily found on google for ex: https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/elastic/?tab=host

This made our life super easy as we can just start monitoring large system without much configuration.","Out of the box integrations are good but when you need to add more metrics which are not available, it requires a effort and sometime their documents can be confusing and outdated esp. with Out of the box integration where that software is changing rapidly.

Second it can be costly if you need to monitor large systems and is tight on the budget."
G2.com,Sari R,,5,Datadog is extremely helpful with organizing and visualizing data and data events across our client base. It helps with the implementation and ongoing client lifecycle process with alerting tools,Would love to see more support and guidance from the datadog team when we are in the platform with a chat feature or a support feature. Most of my experience using Datadog has been excellent.
G2.com,Parth G,Lead cloud Engineer,4.5,"Datadog has many features that make it one of the best monitoring tools in the market. I like the ease of using these tools and the enterprise support that comes with it. It supports a lot of integration, making it easy for administrators to monitor any services/machine in the organization.",Everything in the product is just good and there is nothing that you can dislike. However I would like them to have some training material/videos. The documentation can be simplified a little.
G2.com,Omar.S,,4.5,"Datadog has enabled our team to monitor the health of our deployed services in a very customized way. The breadth and depth of features available on the Datadog platform amaze us. When we find a monitoring need, we learn that there's already a way in Datadog.",Datadog can improve the big picture view of how their services interact and support each other. It wasn't always clear to us which pieces fit (and how) together to make a solution.

G2.com,Adrian B,,5,"During our automatic scripts (from Machine Learning services) we send various messages to logging, which then get sent to datadog. This is both to document various steps of the data, but also to show crashes when they happen. Then from the DataDog interface we can search for production/staging services, we can search by date, we can search by key words.","We have the logs from only the past 2 weeks, so we can not find earlier errors. But in general we catch the errors within 2 weeks, so this is not such a big limitation after all."

G2.com,Philip L ,CEO,1,"We could not fully evaluate DataDog because they charged us for 50 hosts inadvertently sending metrics for 2 days out of the month. This was our mistake - we accidentally deployed the DataDog agent to an entire tier, not realizing this would incur charges. We rolled this back when we discovered the issue. There appears to be no way of having DataDog drop metrics from agents. You have to physically remove those agents.

However, despite multiple conversations over the month with their sales team and support, explaining we did not want to monitor those hosts, they charged us for an entire month of usage.

The DataDog product looks great and we were excited to evaluate it. However, I now have to justify a month's worth of spend without getting value for it, which is an unfortunate place to be. Given the lack of support in helping us resolve this deployment mistake and the resulting billing issue, I also am not sure how much support I'd get down the road.","As described in the previous section, the lack of support resulting in us not being able to resolve a deployment mistake and resulting billing issue."

G2.com,Shaul A,VP Projects,4,"I was impressed with the integrations part of DataDog.

Our main goal was to centralize activity and audit logs of critical systems in our organization.

We were able to integrate most of our systems in a matter of hours:

JumpCloud, Gsuite, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Auth0 and more.

The instructions were easy to follow, and an integration usually takes only a few minutes.","Log parsing could be improved.

The logging format is not standard across machines when you have multiple devices with different OS.

If you want standardization, you must set up pipelines to ingest and parse the logs, which I found a bit tedious."

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Santiago H.",Head of Cloud,,"We have been using Datadog for a while and we are generally satisfied with the product. However, we feel that the support could be improved as it can be slow to respond, and the payment processes are not always clear.","The support is bad, often slow. The help is not enough. Also, many times the prices are not clear and you can get surprises on your bill."

G2.com,Bashir M. S.,"Technology Consultant | CTO
Information Technology and Services",5,"I like its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, which allow us to track various aspects of our systems such as CPU and memory usage, network traffic, disk I/O, application performance metrics, and more.","Initially, it took some time for me to get familiar with the interface and understand how to set up alerts, how to customize dashboards, and how to navigate through the extensive data provided. However, the support team was very helpful and responsive in addressing my questions and concerns, which helped me become proficient in using the tool."

G2.com,Neha B,Product Manager,3.5,"It's straightforward to ingest logs for applications deployed through AWS. We can easily apply filters in the dashboard to load or fetch records by date, request IDs, and error levels.","Creating dashboards and viewing he same is quite tricky over data dog. If I want to see weekly, monthly, and quarterly results and analyze them, it's not straightforward."

G2.com,Przemek P.,Information Technology and Services,4,"Datadog provides a powerful set of tools for monitoring and optimalization of IT infrastructure, enabling the reliability and performance of monitored systems.",Sometime to much complexed and hard to manage withou proper training and expirience. Requires some knowledge about managed systems for better operations and understanding of the environment.

G2.com,Yan A,,4,"Datadog is a perfect APM solution that is probably the best for serverless environments such AWS Lambda or Fargate monitoring. They are also able to monitor standard infrastructure, but where I think they differentiate themselves is with serverless compute.","It can become quite expensive. This cost adds on top of an already expensive AWS infrastructure monthly bill which can make this cost prohibitive for some, but overall it's well worth the price if you can afford it."

G2.com,Gary H,,4,Using Datadog to investigate network and service issues on your environments where you are struggling to locate issues. It is great to identify a bottleneck in your system. It is simple and user friendly.,Datadogs full package is rather costly and may not necessarily be affordable when it comes to small companies that are looking to diagnose a minor issue on the system

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Eduardo V.",,4.5,"I like how it allows me to easily find data events, user behaviors thanks to the logs that are easy to interpret. It provides a lot of useful information.","It has a huge learning curve because it is such an extensive application with so many tools. When using it, many parts of the interface are confusing and not very user friendly."

G2.com,Deepak M,Senior software Engineer,5,"Tracking the application matrix to understand the feature popularity in the app, also helps us to understand user behavior and count progress on different wizards in the application, etc.","We've used the Data dog in React mobile application and based on our need we were able to do what we wanted, so no dislike at the moment."

G2.com,Andy V,,4.5,It is easy to be able to look up a specific error and determine what the cause of the issue.,There are a lot of different options that can get confusing if you don't know what you are looking for.
G2.com,Rakesh N,,5,"Comprehensive Monitoring

2. Easy to Use

3. Powerful Analytics

4. Integrations

5.Customizable Alerts","Steep Learning Curve: While the platform is generally easy to use, the learning curve for more advanced features is steep."
G2.com,Shivangani T.,Devops Engineer,4.5,"It's a one-stop solution for monitoring, logging, metric collection, observability dashboards, application performance monitoring etc. The best thing I like about DataDog is its agent - It monitors apps and infra, collects logs and metrics, and keeps posting it on datadog.com 24x7 and it's great integration support with third-party apps and services","So far, There is not anything which I don't like about DataDog; It's better than newRelic, Dynatrace and SumoLogic. So - No dislike for DataDog at all from my experience."
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John G.","Sr. Director of Product Marketing
Computer & Network Security",4,"What we like best about Datadog is its ability to provide real-time visibility into application performance, infrastructure, and logs, all in one place.",The platform is pretty complex; it can take some time to learn how to use all of its features and may not be suitable for smaller applications.
G2.com,Sierra M,,3.5,Datadog has very clean dashboards that are both easy to use and understand.,"I wish that Datadog provided more education on how to use the product. The UI is very barebones and not super user friendly, causing me to get overwhelmed by the amount of information on a given page."
G2.com,Jay B,Programmer Analyst,4,"with the help of data dog, I am able to monitor large-scale applications and it can be used to determine performance metrics. The data dog is available as SaaS and it also provides a customized dashboard","It is not easy to understand how to use it at total capacity. Initially, it is hard to track the data logs and Its integration with the spring boot project is also tricky. The Custom Dashboard is hard to manage."
G2.com,Shaik firoz B.,Senior Engineer,5,"Datadog has user friendly interface,it allows me to easily monitor my applications and services across multiple data sources, able to look up an specific error and determine the cause of issue. Livelogs,overall app breakup coverage,trails,CI and monitoring are the best.",There is nothing to dislike about this product.
G2.com,James D,CEO,5,"It has a number of integrations that make it easy to work with.

its use tools are powerful in market monitoring

Constant monitoring allows us to have control of all our services

their customer service is very professional when required of them",A very professional quality of service has been maintained where I have not had any problem that is not resolved quickly and in a timely manner
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Susannah G.",Engineering Mannager,3.5,"Datadog is extremely powerful and has extensive documentation. Some of the UI is very user-friendly. The customer service has been incredibly helpful with setup, integrations, and troubleshooting.",Datadog is so large that to new users it can be overwhelming. At times it felt that even to read documentation or do setup you already needed to be an expert. I still don't quite have a hand on the query language for creating metrics; I tend to reverse engineer those from dashboards.

G2.com,Sandeep J,System engineer,5,Everything you can think about regarding Observability is packed in a single consol.,Too much data.Needs a few interfaces to easily manage it. A little costly.

G2.com,Giorgio D.,Site reliability Engineer,4,"Overview of the full infrastructure, and integration between all layers, (Infra, Databases, Traces,).

Every time we see a ""New"" badge we have to try it because it ""must be good"". So thank you for your effort on building those features, and thank you for releasing only ""high quality"" and complete features that provide ACTUAL value (vs competitors, that don't really do much and lag behind features)

Also big thank you for full OpenTelemetry integration/support. and the Datadog OTLP agent integration.

Keep up the amazing work","A bit of heavier lock-in lately, dd-trace is getting a big monopoly to collect reliably all things (traces, profiles, and now, Security (ASM)). I wish there was an open standard for that, or you guys would release an open standard."

G2.com,Thanh D,,4.5,It is easy to use and has lots of feature. The UI looks much better for me than tool like kibana.,I have good experience with datadog and wouldn't want to change anything about it.

G2.com,Madison C.,Software Engineer,5,I'm a big fan of the time filter UI; it's incredibly straightforward and clear. Creating dashboards is very easy and intuitive. As a backend developer I can't imagine a more useful tool.,The only thing I dislike about datadog is that it's very easy to have duplicate monitors or dashboards that end up double charging the company.

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Giridharan U.",Technical Architect,5,It was the one stop shop for us to have a monitoring tool and for having a centralized logging solution.,"The initial costs were too high. Later, post optimization the costs were reduced."

G2.com,No Name,,4,"We are just beginning to explore all the functionality that Datadog offers, and it's so good it's almost overwhelming for a small team. Really appreciate how they onboard new clients and put together customized resources!","As mentioned in the like response, it's almost a dislike that they have so many tools because it can be overwhelming. We wanted to prioritize security and posturing, which they are just starting to invest in. They're very responsive to user feedback, so I have no doubt they'll only continue to grow and improve their assortment and ease of use."

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Tushar B.",Associate Software Engineer,4.5,The simple yet feature-full UI of datadog & it's ease of integration with new technologies,Datadog quota management is an issue & it can happen that you get billed more than expected due to extra logs being pushed to datadog.
G2.com,Puneet S,"Solution Architect (Pre-Sales), APJ",5,Easier to navigate UI. Shows most of the information and various customisable dashboard.,Steep the learning curve to understand how to customise.
G2.com,Amit Y,Software Engineer 2,4.5,The user interface of their product is very thoughtful and easy to use.,Personally I found latency at times in the event delivery
G2.com,Shreya A,SQA,5,"Live logs, overall app break-up coverage, trails, CI, APM, monitorings.",Its subscription cost it too high with lowest of keeping 3 months data in backup with high subscription cost.
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Burhan B.",Front Engineer 2,4.5,By utilizing Datadog we had the option to see almost issues at the client's end a lot quicker than previously.,"It becomes tricky to find the data as there are a lot of different data tracked. Usually, it takes a bit of time to fully understand how features work but this is not a big deal since there are plenty of academy courses now."

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Kenneth D.",,3,The flexibility and customizable tools. Integration with Slack for realtime alerts.,Level of experience/knowledge needed to use it effeciently.

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Nagendra K.",Software Engineer,3.5,"They provide the best monitoring for servers, databases through SaaS based data analytics platform","The service is not straight forward, users definitely need to take their time to fully understand its features and how to maximize the benefits of the service"

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Byron P.",,4.5,Great easy to configure analytics for tracking internal services,"Generally, everything works well. Sometimes its difficult to drill into a metric to learn more."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Seeing logs, metrics and tracing across disparate technology stacks makes finding and following problems across a microservice architecture much more straightforward. I find it easier than using AWS Cloudwatch to try and do the same.","There is a lot of functionality, but some of these areas require configuration for them to work. However, this is par for the course with any monitoring and dashboarding product."

G2.com,Akash S,Software Engineer,4.5,Allows to create customizable dashboards with real-time visualisations of their data. This makes it easy to track key performance indicators and monitor system health,"The integration process can be complex and time-consuming, especially if they are unfamiliar with the specific tools."

G2.com,Dinesh G,Business analyst,4.5,We use it to understand and analyze the performance of our systems and use it as a way to monitor our system health checks so it saves some effort on the developer side.,"The UI is not the best, and some charts are not user-friendly for a non-techie person. Analyzing queries is not intuitive and requires some training to understand it."

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Vibhuti J.",Talent Acquistion,4,Creative user interface and easy navigation,A little complicated for a common person to work on if you do not the technology

G2.com,Josh S,IT Cordinator,5,Highly versatile and modular; you can build out analytics exactly how you want them presented,The UI is pretty lightweight.. some cosmetic overhaul would be welcomed.

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Devikiran M.",Associate Quality Engineer,4,"monitoring is very easy, can see live log.","nothing as of now, i like everything in datadog"

G2.com,No Name,,3.5,"Lots of out of the box integrations, overall good usability. Cover a big range of necessary observability for your applications and all integrated in one platform.","Pricing is pretty high (you pay more to monitor a small k8s ec2 node than the ec2 itself), and I found it hard to pick what you want to measure using Kubernetes integration granularly. Sometimes it is hard to understand how your billing is calculated, and it also charges you multiple times for ""same stuff"" since it cannot automatically detect integrations. (Ex.: you are charged for AWS node monitoring + k8s node monitoring of the same ec2 instance!). Didn`t like the commercial support either; they only care until they sell it to you."

G2.com,Ganesh P,,5,They have the best UI/Interface to build dashboards and compare data metrics with each other.,They are not up to the mark when it comes to 3rd party integrations.

G2.com,Jaun R,Staff Software Engineer,4,Our team uses a number of DD features. We are heavily invested in the dashboards and monitors. We have DD integrated with Slack and Pager Duty and it a primary source of notifications that drives actions w/in our Operations team.,"There is nothing I outwardly dislike. I consider myself an intermediate user, so gaining training and experience using the DD tools is interesting to me. I am especially interested in some of the newer features described at the Keynote today. Service Catalog, Security analysis, Workflows are all features that will integrate nicely w/ our current process suite."

G2.com,No Name,,5,"Grat User Interface (UI), easy to set up and configure, and plenty of integrations with cloud and on-prem solutions. Granular control over the ingested data. Flexible licensing scheme.","Data normalization and unstructured log ingestion require time and effort. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is not available out of the box and requires a ticket to the Support team. Despite RBAC, access granularity is hard to achieve, especially in an organization with small Site Reliability Engineering teams."

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Chanthini A.",Site reliability Engineer,4,"The tool is easy to use, great monitoring feature with customizable dashboard.","Proper support is not there, training materials / documentation needs to be more clear."

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Chinthaka J.",IT Manager,,Have extensive webhooks microservice management features with support more for applications as well as infrastructure level.,Datadog configurations screen are more suited for trained or product-savvy professionals rather than tech beginners

G2.com,Bill M,VP of EM,5,Log management and visualizations without having to write code. Data Dog is the fastest way to aggregate all your log management into on centralized view. Other products take time and glue code to try and scratch the surface of Data Dogs value.,The only downside is with how easy it is to use you can get out of hand and drive the cost up right away. Lucky they have come out with monitors and easy ways to dial back to meet your budget.

G2.com,Kipp M,Associate,4,"Visualizations and Dashboards can be easily derived

- Customer Success Managers are highly-engaged",The price can sometimes be hard to justify to the rest of the company

G2.com,Shubham D,Senior Data Analyst,4.5,"DataDog works as a excellent central resource to manage and monitor all our applications and infrastructure. The best thing about DataDog is that it's quite easy to use and user-friendly along with being a total value for money. Also, it has excellent support and learning resources to be utilized by everyone.","Some of the integrations and connections docs for setting up are outdated and not very to understand for anyone who is new. The process of setting it up will require you to get in touch with the support team several times. However, they are quite quick and happy to assist as and when needed."

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Anatolij N.",Devops Engineer,5,"Datadog has many integrations for almost everything. It's easy to use if you want to configure the integration. Especially for AWS and Kubernetes, it allows you to start to monitor your cloud infrastructure.","Especially for a long time, the cost overview for Datadog usage was very intransparent. Maybe it will be easier with the new Cost Management feature of Datadog."

G2.com,Eran B,,4,have integration with many cloud services,"when you are counting this tool as main alerting tool, it has a lag of 5 minutes at minimum"

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Rizwan K.",Process Executive,4.5,Datadog is user-friendly software with a comprehensive UI and enough settings and functionality to meet all of our needs. The most significant operating processes are mechanical and hence simple to use even for those with little familiarity with this equipment.,"While I'm working on new dashboards, it's always difficult to do so since the program is run quite slowly and takes several minutes to begin operating. I believed it was something to do with the machine, but it happened on every computer where Datadog was installed"

G2.com,AT W,Freelance devops engineer,4,I like the interface and the fact that datadog continues to add new integrations. They support all the major platforms. It is a great tool for DevOps/SRE as well as product engineering teams,I would like to have datadog hand kubernetes metrics better. The alerting tools do not handle pod terminations or scaling events effectively. I would also like more advance kubernetes metrics. Improved iac options for configuring datadog

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Pratik S.",Contributing Member - CWE/CAPEC Working Group for Attack Patterns,4.5,I like its Security Analytics and Monitoring feature,The learning curve makes it hard to get things started ASAP

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Harvin Kiel C.",Software Engineer,5,"Ease of use, comprehensive reports, flexibility on the data you can track and real-time monitoring",UI can be improved by making it more user friendly.

G2.com,Renee D.,Sr.QA consltant,"4,5","Easy to set up monitoring with datadog,ui is not bad",i wish there was a user tutorial for new features

G2.com,Rachel F.,Sr data analyst,4,data dog is greata nd help with all my data needs. thewir able to connect me qwith all the vendors i recive. also they just gavew me a free mug!l,that i have to log in to gewt my freemug. i would rather have just written a anaoymous review and then i would have been more hionest

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Rene K.",Data Engineer,5,Easy setup to monitor clusters in Databricks running Apache Spark. Pre-setup dashboards help to quickly gain insights on a infrastructure level without the needs of DevOps.,"The pricing on the Datadog website could be more precise, such as allowing using a calculator for price estimates"

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Jeremy V.",Data Engineer,4,"Easy usability, seamless log management and filtering. We're able to quickly build dashboards, share them with the team, and build alerts from them. Avi Verma helped us with our log pipeline/status remapper.","Would love to have certain features added, but there are open source products that may help us"

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Nitish Chandu O.",Senior onsultant,5,"Datadog has so many integrations available, making it easy to use for AWS, Azure, GCP, On-prem, containers, serverless, and many more. The process to create monitors and dashboards is simple, helping the OPS team to implement the monitoring in quick time. The solution is excellent for application monitoring, as it supports monitoring using traces. Notification in Datadog is excellent as it integrates with Service-Now, Slack bringing immediate attention of the users.","The support from Datadog is something I see to be improved, as they deal with tickets only on emails. The support team doesn't connect over calls for troubleshooting, and there is no proper escalating process causing a delay in fixing monitoring issues."

G2.com,Shubham V,Devops Engineer,5,"It is a SaaS-based tool that removes the overhead of managing the product itself and provides a good experience.

It supports a lot of different types of services such as monitoring servers, databases, etc but what caught my eye was log management and analysis.

Also,provides a variety of visualization to better observe the metrics","No dislikes as such, because it is specific to use-cases, how it serves your use-case is the first question to ask, and it got a lot of positives.

Still, One such thing to mention is cost and also sometimes it is overwhelming for new users to use it for the first time."

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Mohammad W.",//Cloud support Engineer,5,"The dashboards of each AWS service, the way they display the graphs, the number of metrics collected by the agent, also the number of features to monitor AWS resources allow you to monitor every single detail in your architecture.","It is a little bit hard to start understanding the concept of datadog and how it works, also the cost of the services. And if possible to restructure the documentation, set proper title, put real case examples cause I did lost everytime so I am working on my own documentation."

G2.com,,,4.5,"The learning curve is not as steep as many other monitoring tools, the auto-discovery and event/trace correlation works very well with very little manual help needed.",It doesn't native support older technology like Informix so if you have an older stack this might not be ideal
G2.com,Akshay K,Devops Engineer,3.5,"Datadog has infra and application-related all types of metrics from those we can monitor very effectively.

- Datadog provides one of the best Dashboards from which we can create - Timeseries, Query value, Top list, Table, Heatmap, Distribution, Treemap, Pie chart, free text, Images, Host map, Log stream, List, Alert value, Service map and many more things also we can create customized Dashboards according to client requirements.

- The pricing for the tool is very less as compared to other APM tools like Dynatrace, Nagios, and many other tools.

- The tool can be deployed in on-premise as well as cloud

- As it is agent based, by installing an agent we can get most of the data in Datadog UI

- Datadog is user-friendly and easy to learn.

- For any issue, we get quick help from the Datadog support team.",There is nothing to dislike in Datadog but I feel the Datadog needs to increase more documentation and videos to configure the application and infra monitoring and Datadog should show live billing of the used data and should show the billing according to the services we used.
G2.com,Ben Z,Civil Engineer,5,"When I have any issue, we have good technicians to address our problems","Price model, should be more flexible that's all"
G2.com,,,,It has great features,
G2.com,,,,Simplicity,
G2.com,,,,Easy to understand UI,
G2.com,,,,Easy of installation,
G2.com,,,,Useful metrics,
G2.com,Shifali G,Sr Software Engineer,5,"The thing that stands out most about the Datadog product suite is its overall usability and architecture. From the installation of agents and the way metrics are gathered to the creation of dashboards, monitors, and alerts.","Nothing as such. of course there are things that could be different, but these dislikes are nowhere near with the positives. Maybe alerting and monitoring time to alert could be shorter."
G2.com,Icaro F,Devops Engineer,5,"I think the best part is centralized logs, metrics and traces, now we don't need to use a lot of tools to check logs, another one to check metrics etc etc etc","Actually, nothing. We are always looking for the new parts of the product and its great =)"
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Lakshit K. S.",Software Engineer,3.5,It is supported by every cloud solution with excellent integrations and documentation that is relatively easy and accurate.,"The price is a little bit high as seen from an individual or a startup perspective but it does its job amazingly, it's actually worth the money you spend."
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Rodrigo Y.",Partner,5,The most incredible thing about Datadog is the way they continue updating his app and releasing new features,I guess they could improve CI with azure devops functionality
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Marcio R.",Observability Manager,,"The way to find problems in our environment are so fast.

When I need help, we have good technicians to address our problems.",The quantity of information at the home screen. Some friends of organization have a little bit difficulty so find some.
G2.com,Avinash U.,Devops Engineer,4,"Having a single platform for monitoring all kinds of infrastructure is helpful. Datadog has excellent support and learning resources to get started with monitoring our application/infrastructure. There are integrations for almost all types of cloud or on-premise infrastructure and applications. The system is resilient with no issues in terms of performance or outages. The log management and tracing is very convenient using Datadog with features like retention, backup, formatting, and RBAC.","The documentation for a few integrations is outdated and not always straightforward. You'll have to reach out to support quite a few times while setting it up. While creating new dashboards, it is not autosaved or even suggested for saving, which is a huge pain point if not known earlier."
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Filippo S.",Multilingual Support Specialist,4,possibility to aggregate views in a single dashboard,Navigating the platform is not very straightforward
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Kunal S.",Software engineer,3.5,We monitor logs across multiple microservices in our infrastructure. I cannot emphasise how critical it is to debug the unhandled exceptions on production. Datadog provides an easy to understand UI unlike other(s) which I have used previously.,I haven't encountered anything as it's been just over a year since I started using Datadog.
G2.com,Vinit P,Associate,4.5,The things i like most about it is the less time it takes and how efficiently it works it has best features it is easy to use and great for monetoring data . Really liked it.,There is not much to dislike but i think the cost can be reduced as it is bit high for some people otherwise all is good no complaints 
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Subol S.",Security Data Engineer,4,Workshops provided good insights and the keynotes showcased what the company is focused on and where they plan to be in future,Workshops could have been trimmed into smaller sections
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paulo a.",Opertaions Director,4.5,"CLOUD SIEM IS ADVancing pretty fast but lacks of on prem support for legacy network devices such as firewalls, routers and switches.",lack of support for on prem legacy devices
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Alexander K.",IT Specialist,5,"Very cost effective for their metrics services.

It keeps building new powerful features ( frequently upgrading and updating features)

Pre-built solution for SQL Server is excellent.

It's way easier for monitoring several scaled apps.

Allows to collect data from log and performance counters.

I really like the ability to see stats about company application.","Sometimes it's very difficult to understand the graph report.its UI is sometimes a bit slower although it need to be integrated with multiple external apps.

To begginer it may not that much friendly."
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Sabrina K.",Associate SRE,5,There's a learning curve which takes time in terms of training,There's a learning curve which takes time in terms of training
G2.com,,,3.5,At ODB we have been happy with the performance and flexibility of DataDog to adapt to monitor and report. We've been able to point it at many critical infrastructure points and receive very quick notifications when there is an issue.,There have been complaints about the interface on DataDog and some of the screens. There seems to be very little that one can do to change the look and feel to their liking. Some of the reports are not as detailed for some of the leadership's liking.
G2.com,Ayush U,,5,"There are a lot of things that are present in Datadog:

1. Traces: There are traces provided to track all the requests made to your app.

2. Metrics: You can create metrics for your application. Using these metrics you can create monitors to set up alerts over them.

3. Dashboard: You can also create a customized dashboard. We create multiple app dashboards for tracking them.

4. Monitors: You can create monitors to set up alerts on top of various metrics.

5. APM services: You can manage all your services deployed from here.

6. You can tag your data. We use a lot of tags to provide in-depth ideas about all the services and metrics.

7. Integrations: You can integrate your alerts with Slack and other apps. In this way you can receive notifications on your channels and manage alerts,",There is nothing that I dislike. But support for a query language would be great. While setting up monitors we felt a need for queries because we had to create metrics for various custom alerts.
G2.com,,,5,I've been using a lot of the application security product lately-- getting security signals from our deployed agents APM is a gamechanger.,The datadog kubernetes operator often feels like an afterthought-- I wish the Kubernetes agent deployment story was more consistent and maintained.

G2.com,Aman S,,5,Log management is the best feature for troubleshooting as the logs are detailed and easy to understand.,"It only supports applications that are mainly based on Java, Python, .Net and Php. In the future, they should add support for more languages for broader industry usage."

G2.com,Santa s,,4,I love how even such a tool has api support and how i can just use those to pull and compline metrics from different clouds with a simple python script,I wish that DataDog was a bit more dynamic and also free

G2.com,,,3.5,I like the log searching ability as well as the appsec scanning. I would like to learn. more about the new feaures rolled out,when the app sec feature was originally rolled out it wasnt really integrated well with the platform. I assume it is better now. And the pricing for sensitive data

G2.com,Praveen R,Software Engineer,4.5,Nice looking UI. Easy to setup. Useful metrics,Toio much info prsented at once. UI could be improved

G2.com,"
Sasank Reddy A.",Head Of Business Operations,4,Data Integration Quality is perfect in the place,Little bit expensive but most of the customers like the quality

G2.com,,,0,"All services in one place

2. Excellent monitoring functionality in UI","Be prepared to be completely ripped off in billing. My Datadog bill came to 2x my AWS bill. Ludicrous.

1. Datadog billing panel does now show how much you owe at the moment, or how much you've used. You just wait until the end of the month and pray it won't be something ridiculous.

2. You'll be charged for random accidents / fluctuations. Accidentally spin up a 100 hosts for 10 seconds? Boom, 15$/host -> 1500 USD charged to you. No way to set caps, no limits, no way to even get alerted that you're gonna be charged this amount.

I can't believe something with this level of professionalism has grown so big. If you're planning to use them PLEASE be aware of these extremely shady policies."

G2.com,"
Cristiano S.",SRE,5,"Features, simplicity and innovation of the product.",Nothing really to dislike. Very good product.

G2.com,,,5,Datadog is able to roll out features in a short period of time.,As they grow bigger their price is getting increased.

G2.com,Ahmad H.,Devops engineer,5,"I really like the Datadog real user monitoring (RUM), it provides us the insight of our frontend application as it was from our real users, it helps up a lot to understabnd it.","We used datadog for RUM and we already liked this service and in future we will be using some integration service for amazon web services, so for now we do not dislike anything about datadog."

G2.com,"
Luca B.",IT Manager,4,"simple agent, no hassle, being cloud base it alerts you when your machine has something wrong or just simply is missing internet connection which can be meaning anything but at least you can debug it","the cloud interface is somwhow confusing, sometimes you do things and it's difficult to understand why you are not getting what you were thinking you were doing"

G2.com,Rakshith M,Crew Member,5,It measures best in class performance matrix with minute details and detailed information for every user.,UI can be slightly improved to make it more user friendly and so that it becomes easier to use

G2.com,Himanshu K.,Senior Software engineer,5,"Datadog can monitor distributed architectures.

We can use it to optimize performance.

I use Oracle SQL Developer with it

What makes Datadog different?

Datadog can monitor distributed architectures, hybrid environments, and microservices","The documentation for a few integrations is outdated and not always straightforward.

By providing detailed documentation and a detailed description.

In documentation and control document part"

G2.com,,,4,Metric and performance for SLOs is great,UI is not the most user-friendly for the user to understand all the features

G2.com,Shubham G,Lead software engineer,5,"I really love the monitoring tools for database, servers and the data logs","It can be more mature, the database integration with different data set can be better."

G2.com,,,5,"Datadog has a suite of products that provides excellent insights into application monitoring.

- Integrating with datadog agents is relatively easier to get started.

- Co-relating logs, apm, and metrics together make debugging easier.

- Watchdog is a great feature

- Datadog's anomaly and forecast on metrics helps in identifying issues at the earliest

- Developer friendly integration","Need to monitor costs closely

- Alert configuration needs to be improved

- Need to improve documentation"

G2.com,"
Rajender J.",Frontend developer,5,"Easy implementation

- APM is amazing

- Log search syntax

-Real-time logs","JSON is not supported in logs. Had to send stringified JSON

- API requests should also log HTTP headers for better debugging."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,The ease of consolidating data with dashboards.,"The inability to effectively discern the monthly costs based on logging, tracing, retention, etc."

G2.com,No name,,5,"LOG MONITORING MODULE, FOR MY CLIENTS, AT ALESTRA","THAT IS ONLY SAAS OPTIO, BUT IS OK, BECAUSE IS THE MODEL THAT IS NOW"

G2.com,No name,,4,ease of integration to software systems and infra,ease of integration to software systems and infra

G2.com,"
shweta k.",,5,"It determines the performance metrics,which is very helpful for any sites",Somewhere lacking in documentation but overall it is understandable.

G2.com,No name,,5,"Ease of installation, loads super fast, easy to understand UI.",Have not encountered anything I dislike yet.

G2.com,No name,,4,"They provide us with the application to integrate any data source. Also, many prebuilt dashboards and out-of-the-box use cases are given to use. Create custom use cases are so easy.",UI can be designed better for a better user experience.

G2.com,"
Sumeet S.",,5,"It reduces time to problem resolution, secure applications and track key business metrics.",A bit tricky to find the data..takes bit of time..

G2.com,,,5,Having unified visibility in to our infrastructure is huge win,Pricing can be complex and require tuning

G2.com,"
Austin T.",Manager of Information Systems,5,I like all of the sub-products that Datadog offers. Each area in Datadog could almost be a standalone software.,"Datadog (currently) lacks billing monitoring/alerts. While you can log into the product to see your usage and billing so far for the month, you can't set a quota/threshold or any alerts for billing."

G2.com,No name,,5,"I love the monitoring, dashboard visualization, native cloud integrations",I would like to see more plugins available

G2.com,Garima C,Drug Safety Associate,5,The best part about the data dog is the server management and monitoring.,Exporting of logs for of the monitoring tools are cumbersome.

G2.com,"
Gufran A.",Application support Engineer.,5,Automatic percentiles are a big plus point for monitoring It's easier to find bug detection on the backend.,"it's difficult to understand fresher the first time.

difficulties in checking the logs for fresher."

G2.com,No name,,5,"The integration of datadog to our apps and servers was a breeze due to easy documentation. The options such as container, serverless and log monitoring in the same place made our life easier. The UI is also easy to use and loads very fast even with high number of data points. Their API also supports IPv6 which made interaction with our IPv6 only clusters so much easy.",There is not much to dislike about datadog that I have experienced.

G2.com,"
Poorna H.",Associate Operations Lead,5,"Single stop for monitoring various database types and their infrastructure.

- Easier to look into metrics history.

- Managing downtime for various resources is simple.", It would be good if there were a way to remove resources from Datadog faster.

G2.com,Aditya G,Senior Marketing Manager,4.5,"Datadog has been the most useful in my APIs, error tracking and database monitoring.","none as of now, I have started liking the platform."

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"Datadog has allowed our organization to equip our various teams with more data, allows our teams to more easily track different trends, and creates the opportunity for better tracking.","There are aspects that are harder for some users to pick up and immediately utilize. This is most likely - in large part - due to our current implementation and less directly related to Datadog itself, but the tool could provide more options for direction throughout."

G2.com,No name,,5,Correlation everything with APM Trace and log,"Pricing model, it should be more flexible"

G2.com,Preet C,Manual Automation Engineer,5,The best part was the UI and also we starred all the services and also the error rate was easily visible.,Sometimes the services are gone blank so we can't able to check that services
G2.com,Jaydeep S,Senior SRE,4.5,"logs tracing

- logs management

- infrastructure monitoring",difficult at code level to integrate with datadog
G2.com,Ravinder T,SRE,4,Best to monitor microservices running on Kubernetes and easy to push custom metrics,There is nothing special that i didn't dislike about datalog

G2.com,"
Rohan C.",Technical & Application Engg,5,Data Dog is best for Monitoring & Alert generating & easy for log searching,"Sometimes observed slowness so at issue time, its get very touf to anazalse the issue"

G2.com,"
Jimesh S.",Senior Software Engineer,4.5,"feature to gain infrastructure visibility,

effortlessly integrate the Datadog agent with running docker containers,

continuous profiling,

analyze the traffic flow","customization support is a less, comparatively advanced APM tool."

G2.com,"
Zahidah M.",Support Engineer,4.5,can filter each attribute easily so it's easy to find,"nothing, all good, already good enough for my use"
G2.com,"
Imesh G.",Senior DevOps Engineer,4,Ease of monitor creation and alert setup,"There is no cc option in alerting , whatever alerts you setup will be directed to all the teams which might cause confusion as to who has the ownership of the problem"
G2.com,Navdeep s,SRE,5,"It's easier to find bug detection of backend

Logs monitoring also time stamps for all time zone",It would be good if we have some demo videos or tutorial it self in site for biggners from installation to set up and how to use
G2.com,Yasir S,Application support Engineer.,5,we are monitoring multiple type of services like GoProxy 31 32 and cash collection,Sometimes we are getting late alerts and responses
G2.com,No name,,4,"The tool can be deployed both on-premise or in Cloud as a SaaS service.

- It is a versatile tool which can be used for application performance monitoring, incident logging, monitoring network stats and detecting security threats.

- The pricing for the tool is competitive with respect to other APM tools like Dynatrace, Nagios etc.

- Wide range of dashboards which can be customised and many third party integrations are available.","The inbuilt integrations could cause the consumption of more system resources.

- The installation process is a little cumbersome as many steps are involved, and updates/patches are released frequently."
G2.com,Nitin K,Infra support engineer,4.5,I have been using datadog for last more than one year. What I like about datadog is its features such as optimize performance and enhance communication between applications or different parts of infrastructure,There is nothing to dislike. But as a bigner I couldn't find enough documents to learn about it. But it was very easy to integrate with AWS using cloudformation.

G2.com,"
Mohd Anas A.",Application Support Engineer.,5,"For monitoring purposes, we are checked for Error rates which are helpful for monitoring.","Sometimes we are getting blank Responses for particular service APIs.

Ex:- Request, Latency & Error Rates."

G2.com,Amna K,Software Engineer,4,"I use to use prometheus, zipkin, and kibana to debug through issues for any environment other than local, and it was honestly confusing and annoying to go through each tool to figure out what the issue was with an application. DataDog is SO nice when it comes to this. It's basically all three applications merged into one, but better, faster, cleaner, and SO MUCH easier when looking through logs.","I think originally there was a mini learning curve because there are a lot of tools in DataDog, but it was very easy to pick up. Nothing you can't learn from googling and watching a quick youtube video."

G2.com,,,4.5,"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."

G2.com,Sufiyan,,5,"fully customized, server management, alert management, and separated client log checking.","fully customized mail setup was not there and for the new user, the tour guide is not available."

G2.com,"
Deepak R.",Observability Engineer,3.5,I have implemented datadog in my organization. it's very good for infra and cloud monitoring. when it comes to the application there is lots of manual configuration req'd based on technology.so people can understand the terminology.,"they do not have on-prem.

UI should be more attractive"

G2.com,"
Pruthviraj G.",Support Engineer,5,"Server analysis, checking log, monitoring jobs, goproxy error rate","Nothing everything is fine, implementation is also good, organized in easy way we can handled easily hence nothing to dislike here."

G2.com,"
Veera C.",Sr.Technical & Application Support,5,Alert monitoring was best & Log found in details which help to find out issue,some time response get very late or some false alert also

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"Installation and management of datadog was easy. It has enhanced features like mail alerting, pictorial representation of statistics gathered from servers in cloud.","Only suggestion i would give is to improve the UI of datadog to make it more user friendly as sometimes its confusing. Also, would be helpful if the documentation regarding the use of datadog is made more available to users."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Integrations are easy and user friendly, easy to learn and help documentation is available.","Syslog integration with 3rd party applications should be improved, especially the way API send to the application."

G2.com,GS S,Automation E ngineer,4,"to implement datadog, people can learn the entire technology stack and it is good for mid level Engg",Configuration is manual and it is a bit time consuming

G2.com,Jaydeep S,,4.5,"application monitoring

- infrastructure monitoring

- container monitoring"," difficult for fresher to understand at first time

- costly when we have to scale it"

G2.com,No name,,5,"Easy to use, does a wide variety of jobs. It has integration with terraform which is wonderful. Quite handy tool to create monitors, dashboards and SLOs",Searching resources in datadog UI doesn't allow any special characters
G2.com,Jaydeep Singh,Devops Engineer,4.5,Incident investigations with log anamoly detection,"although everything in data dog is so modern and implemented with ease, the navigation to diff dashboard can be made easy"
G2.com,No name,,4,Datadog APM feature is most helpful for application observability.,No such feature i dislike in general as all the feature are the required one in day to day operations.
G2.com,No name,,5,"Really great NodeJS integration and great library support

- Encompasses everything we need to monitor

- Combines server, mobile, etc into one easy to use journey

- Correlating datapoints is super easy","The UI could be clearer at times

- Pricing is quite a bit more than competitors

- For being so established, a lot of their great functionality has just been getting released. Lots of low hanging fruit left"
G2.com,Zaid S,,4,"All things about server management, UI, client log",difficulties in checking the logs and there is no tour guide when newly users joined.
G2.com,Jaydeep Singh S,Devops Engineer,4.5,We like ease of navigation and logs tracing capabilities of datadog. Also ease of installation of agents.,Costly if need to scale and frequent updates
G2.com,"
Anas A.",Tech support Engineer,5,we are getting request-response very easily.,sometimes we are late notification as compared to snappy flow.
G2.com,Savan S,SSE,4.5,"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."
G2.com,"
Aamir M.",BDE,5,"Getting multiple service on one page, and it is very comfortable to use",Late notifications some times for the monitoring
G2.com,Ajay T,Staff COE,5,"Frameworks and UI, Platform, easily deploy",nothing all is good very good I will recommended to someone for sure
G2.com,"
Debnita G.",Associate Consultant,5,"DataDog tool is very useful if we have multiple applications and we are exposing REST endpoints to clients.

It's very Easy to Integrate with all the applications to create Interactive custom Dashboards and Alerts. These Dashboards help us analyze the data and the real-time alerts are a boon in the production environment. We can also Integrate it with Splunk and PagerDuty for alerts.","It would be great if we are provided with multiple options to view the timings. Since my client is from U.S and I am working are working in a different timezone. Sometimes the Database error timing and the DataDog Dashboard timing are not in sync, and DataDog Dashboard timing is a bit delayed. Not sure if it's a configuration issue."
G2.com,"
deepanshu m.",SDET 3,4,"Monitoring service level metrics

+ Dashboards

+ Infrastructure level monitoring","Nothing as such , datadog is best available tool"
G2.com,Priyabrat Prasad M.,IT analyst,5,It's an all-in-one monitoring tool to monitor your entire infrastructure with ease as it provides a wide variety of integrations and is also very easy to configure.,Monitoring queries for logs needs some more addition to track more minutely.

G2.com,No name,,4.5," Integration with a lot of services

- Providing detailed visibility into infrastructures",Could provide more insights on serverless events

G2.com,No name,,4.5,I like that is is easy to use and intuitive.,I wish that there was a bit more detail when something is not delivered.

G2.com,No name,,4,"Great instant visibility into KPIs and metrics, and flexibility of creating new reports/dashboards, once everything is set up","The learning curve can be a bit steep for someone who isn't on a db/bi/tech team, such as myself"

G2.com,Fritz S,Devops Engineer,5,We found Datadogs APM integration to be extremely easy to integrate into our GO code base. The traces and anomaly detection were extremely valuable for debugging issues. We also found their platform to be highly performant and able to handle anything we threw at it. We were generating billions of traces during our early production phase.,No default alerts. Some dashboard metrics need work.

G2.com,Sourabh D,QA,5,Ability to create metrics for your application that helps you to track incoming requests for your product,I did not find much tutorials on using notebook. There should be some.

G2.com,Deepak R,,4,"Implementation and get to learn a lot. It's a very robust tool, and it supports more than 500 technology. Get to know a lot with this and even learning every day",They don't have to manage the environment.
G2.com,Abdullah A,Software Engineer,5,"It has all the monitoring tools you need in one app: APM, logs aggregation, tracing, and host monitoring","Expensive and hard to set up.

The documentation could use some enhancements.

They don't have many geolocations."
G2.com,No name,,2.5,Creating a dashboard for monitoring system is the probably the easiest among competitors.," Logging pales in comparison to other tools that focus on logging management such as Scalyr.

- Expensive like really expensive."
G2.com,Petr H,Lead Devops engineer,5,"All in one observability tool. We have all the Metrics, Monitors, Logs and APMs in one place thanks to datadog","We would like to use SIEM tool as well and seems like Datadog is not quite there yet, so we are forced to look at other solutions"
G2.com,No name,,5,"User Interface is very good, easy to understand","User Interface presented by Datadog is good, found no dislikes"
G2.com,Petar C,IT manager,4.5,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.

G2.com,No name,,5,Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for IT and devops team that can be used to determine performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services,"Application is set to explore and analyse logs from all the platforms, services and application, however the status on the dasboard is not that accurate. Even the UI can be better"

G2.com,Charlie O,CTO,4.5,"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."

G2.com,No name,,5,"I love the customizability of the DataDog's graphs and monitors and how easy it is to create those graphics and monitors on metrics from your application. There is a lot of cross functional capability, for example, my team uses spring and there's so much built in to connect everything together and not worry about it. I also love the ability to be able to analyze monitors before you create them by seeing the prior history.",The only thing I dislike is the autocomplete feature of the functions for monitors and graphs. I can get to almost the end of a variable name and need to switch tabs to see the full name and the autocomplete feature will clear out my changes. I do enjoy that it only shows options that are available but I would prefer if it didn't try to fit one of those options every time I clicked out of the textbox.
G2.com,David D,SR Front end Engineer,4,DataDog has a huge array of options available for searching logs and creating monitors and dashboards.,"For someone who isn't super into logging/monitoring, all the options can be a bit overwhelming and the interface seems pretty advanced."
G2.com,Trevor B,Senior Software engineer,4.5,"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."
G2.com,No name,,5,"Super intuitive, so many features that feel overwhelming, but are easy to pickup and learn. Can make troubleshooting so much easier.","Feels overwhelming at times, there is so much that I have to just accept that I don't know all of it"
G2.com,Muzzafar K,Devops engineer,3.5,"UI and UX Experience, extensive plugin and integration",some time take more take time integration
G2.com,Himanshu S,QA Architect,4.5,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.

G2.com,No name,,5,Great tool. Easy to set up. This tool provides excellent insight into the entire stack.,"Depending on how you set it up, the pricing model for this tool is quite oppressive."

G2.com,Chris H,Head of technology,4,Datadog is an excellent dashboarding tool to get up and running quickly and introspect your app and infrastructure quickly.,Setting up Datadog's different services to work together can be difficult.
G2.com,No name,,3.5,"It's fast, almost not outages copmared to other platforms, I like that it can also be implented in other softwares (such as Slack) so users can be alerted on time!","The platform itself is a bit too messy, not the best UX, also its app won't work as expected. They should improve it."
G2.com,No name,,5,"Dashboard, integration is so easy,monitoring and apm",Indexing logs is very costly and support takes much time to respond
G2.com,Leo P,Devops Team Lead,4.5,"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.
G2.com,No name,,4,I like the monitoring of servers service provided by Datadog the most,"I dont see anything in Datadofg which i don't like, everything is very good"
G2.com,No name,,5,Concisely information about the application logs.,Nothing as such to dislike in datadog its a good product
G2.com,Miguel C.,Graphic Designer,4,"Track end requests to distributed systems, data control and remote files.

Registration data in context with labeling.

Group data center and containers.","GRAPHIC MONITOR FOR DIFFERENT SERVICES At the same time, it is not necessary at specific times of high traffic."
G2.com,Felipe U,CTO,4,all the filters that I can apply when I'm debugging an issue,"that you have to be careful when you are configuring the tool because if you do something wrong, it could be expensive"

G2.com,Nick L,Founder/CEO,5,"Dashboard visualizations, notifications and it just works",Some integrations could be smoother to integrate

G2.com,Huyn K,Co Founder and CEO,4,"Intuitive UI/UX, robust monitoring, dashboards and alerts.","The pricing can be quite expensive, even with yearly discount."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Linked analysis tool to log, system, docker status..","at the first sight, it's very complex and hard to view"

G2.com,Noname,,4.5,"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.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"The APM and its support for both serverless functions and micro-services is great. It is easy to configure monitors and integrate with other products. Additionally, searching and viewing logs in context is handy, and the UI makes selecting time ranges quite easy.",Datadog is a premium product wtih a premium price point.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,Tracing unique transactions is the best feature,Exporting dashboard info in an excel feature is not available as per my knowledge

G2.com,No name,,5,I like datadog dashboards monitors infrastructures and apm tracing support,Nothing everything looks good and improving

G2.com,No name,,5,It is very helpful in monitoring clous services,There are no dislikes to say about datadog

G2.com,No name,,5,"It is so hard to narrow down which features I love the best. This is because no matter what you need from logs to engineering, to security, to infrastructure, there is not 1 team in an organization that can benefit from this product. Datadog is able to import your entire company into metrics, monitors, and triggers to mitigate any issues and to respond as soon as possible to issues that arise. Their host map feature is a dream come true. You can see which EC2 instances in AWS are communicating with each other and how much traffic and what traffic is communicating through each instance.","The feature I disliked at first was that there was no role-based access control which was a nightmare for security. But they just released a beta feature to resolve this!

I think Datadog has come a long way over the years.

One huge problem I have come into is as their product changes their documentation is out of date at times and does not have current configurations for things which lead you having to reach out to support for assistance with resolving issues or setting up key integrations through your organization. I understand there are growing pains with any application but I wish there was an easy way to report outdated documents for them to update."

G2.com,No name		,,5,"easy to use the tool, provides errors and metrics in real-time",sometimes it is challenging to understand the graph aspects

G2.com,Timo G,Devops engineer,5,"Datadog makes it easy to do monitoring and even setup alerts, also has a great APM.

Datadog simplifies doing APM + monitoring + alerts with one product instead of possibly using two software as a service tools plus a self hosted monitoring stack.","Documentation could be better, but that being said the documentation covers a very broad set of topics."

G2.com,No name		,,4.5,"Datadog is super fast when it comes to log searching. It allows powerful search queries and also allows to create graphs based on logs.

Setting up alarms on specific log texts is easy and has integration with other tools like slack and pager duty",Navigating the UI and figuring out possible options and queries takes time.

G2.com,"
Debabrata P.",Technical Lead,4.5,"With datadog you can quickly get up and running. May be the easiest among all out there. Since it enables you to put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their zone,VPC or environment type we can have one bookmarked place to look at for the first report. Once you figure out how to set up datadog agents then it's a one point of solution. Integrating it to IMs like slack is really easy and thresholds can be set individually to prioritize alerts.","Database monitoring would have a delay if agent is set up. If you have a complex structure of DB infrastructure. this is going to be pain point. The UI could have been a little better, but not a blocker issue"

G2.com,Juan Pablo A.,,4.5,How they constantly evolve their products.,"Because of the constant evolution of their functionalities, sometimes the documentation could not be up-to-date."

G2.com,Jay G,Lead SRE,4.5,"Datadog is building out a platform that covers not only all logging and monitoring needs, but also integrates them together nicely. The interface has a consistent feel, and the support staff is generally well-above averagee.",It is a bit on thee pricey side in some areas -- there are a lot of competitive open-source solutions but I'm thankfully at a business that allows us to get tools like this.
G2.com,Roberto M,"Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Photography",3.5,"It does a good job in managing records with full search, has a simple interface, offers a wide variety of integrations with third-party services and systems, easy to configure and use","There is no reduction in delays in the response time of the monitoring agent, additional reporting capabilities are missing, too, there is no custom query language that can be useful"
G2.com,"
Aleksandr K.",Devops engineer,4.5,"I like how easy it is to configure everything on the DataDog. If I want to add some metrics and visualize it, I can easily do that in a matter of few hours. Really good documentation and well written. I also enjoy the support team that is always ready to help out with any problems.","I don't really like some of its functionality with alarms and notifications. I think it could be better improved. But overall, I really enjoy it more than any other tools that I have used in the past. Easy configuration and integration."
G2.com,Collin H.,"

Information Technology Staff",4.5,"Datadog is a complex software, but after using it for a while, you will notice you always have to do the same process, so it becomes easier and you can master it within time. The interface is simple and the visuals are clean, something that's really helpful to address most of our technical needs. It allows for customization of the dashboards, so you can make them more suitable for yourself.","Datadog is a bit complicated at first. The Setup and configuration are hard to do correctly, so you may need the help of a specialist to do this"
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Marissa G.",Associate Product Manager,5,What we liked best was its seamless integration with the AWS services and the visibility of logs and traces of our applications on the dashboard.,I think Datadog as such doesn't have something to dislike.

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Justin R.",Principal Cloud Architect,5,Datadog provides a multitude of integration to monitor anything you probably need with a simple config. They also offer infrastructure and application monitoring all in one tool for great dash-boarding capabilities.,The APM tool is still young and can have some issues. Their development has been great to work with and listens to our concerns when they arise. They are very transparent in what they do and work on via github.

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Mauricio G.",Front End Engineer,3.5,"I think that Datadog is a nice tool to have in order to keep track of all the logs of your software and be aware of all the requests and failures that may happen. You can follow logs in real time, even in different environments, but all in a single complete dashboard.",User interface in Datadog is not that easy to understand at first. First time setting all the logs can be a bit complicated to do.

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Mauricio S.",Fullstack Developer,4,"You can track and view logs in real time, really helpful. I like the feature where you can create a custom view of a set of logs (with custom filters, column parsing and more).",It gets complicated to use or know all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky to use sometimes. Some filters are hard to use if you haven't mapped all the fields.
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Owen M.",Engineer,4,"At all times this software warns about the performance of each program that is installed on the computer or how is the overall performance of the computer I am working to know if there is something that causes it to slow down or is on the verge of being damaged, with these observations that makes this software everything is well monitored and is in perfect condition always allowing work without complications and with 100% performance for greater agility and without delays",Its complicated use since I acquired it made me generate more knowledge of the basic knowledge I had for the configuration of these software and I had a long learning but that helped me to learn much more and expand my knowledge to improve each day the platform of a more functioning full
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Christopher W.",Bussiness analyst,4.5,"The monitoring of this software we use internally in the company in each server

Datadog control panels help us monitor, debug, show data to those interested and simply show information live on the office screens

They gave us the complete solution and extended the test several times, and we were able to establish a substantial set of case studies that demonstrate the value to our business","The infrastructure of this software is a little complicated with few guides of learning that produces that the process of the correct operation has disadvantages at the beginning and it is not fast way to put to work this software in the company, it is necessary to obtain to learn to know its good operation and great results are achieved"
G2.com,Hart Q.,ML Speacialist,4.5,"Datadog is a tool that's very easy to use, with a very complete interface and enough options and features make possible all our requirements. It includes dashboards where you can check how is the development of the process in real time. Customer service is another great thing from Datadog, as it's always helpful with any of our questions. Whenever you encounter any specific issue, they will always be responsive to you.","When I'm working on creating new dashboards, it's always hard to do it and it tends to run really slow and take several minutes before actually start working. I thought it was something that had to do with the computer, but then I discover it happened in every computer where Datadog was setup."
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Kevin G.",Bussiness analyst,4.5,"It gives me a balance in the work to know how is the performance of each app and each installed software that works and so be aware of each one or that is consuming many resources in the system that makes it slow and does not allow me to execute the actions that I need to do to make my work efficient, without Datadog I could not know which are the app that cause discomfort and that delay me in my work and its good support allows me to have the confidence to ask all the complications that are caused for make your cash","When I started using this platform I found it very complicated to use that I did not know where to start, it caused me a lot of headaches to know how it was working and what other functions it offered, the technical team explained to me but there were vocabulary that did not understand what I was doing. I call for help from a senior engineer who knew more about the issue and put the correct configuration to what I realized that if I did not know about programming and systems at a high level, not anyone can start doing the configuration because it will not succeed"
G2.com,Harry P,AI Programmer,4.5,"Datadog allows us to handle all in one single platform, as its system is based on handling centralized data. The most important operative processes tend to be mechanical and, therefore, easy to use even for people with low experience with this tool. Whenever you have a question about the functionality of the software, it has a very extensive API documentation all of your questions will be answered.","Datadog has a steep learning curve, but this can be solved with regular practice and training. Although it offers several integration options, the integration with AWS present some issues, as some configurations has to be done manually. Other than that, we have no more troubles in this matter, but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement."
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Chris O.",IT consultant,4.5,"At first, Datadog may seem like a complex product, but you can get use to it with practice. When you get to know it enough, it will provide you full control of your system. Their RabbitMQ support is excellent, as it offers good insight into queues. The APIs allow you to interact with the data quickly and effectively and it's definitely this API functionality what makes Datadog one of the best monitoring tools on the market.","I think Datadog could improve in some aspects, such as its logging capabilities, that seem weak compared with other similar solutions, like Splunk. This should be simplified, as it’s one of the more frequent processes in Datadog. Also, I wish Datadog could be as dynamic as other monitoring tools, such as Icinga and Prometheus."
G2.com,Christian K.,accounting,5,"I can install multiple platforms in the system with the assurance that Datadog will monitor one by one very well verifying that its operation is correct and that the system progresses optimally without difficulties

The analysis that Datadog performs with each platform is very safe I have the peace of mind that if it is being monitored everything will work with its performance to the maximum without errors or low performance","The function it performs is very good but for this you have to know how to configure correctly and this takes time because the initial configuration is not so simple, it took me time to learn because it is a very broad platform with many functions that makes it a pretty guide How extensive is its operation"
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Alexander G.",support engineer,4.5,"Makes application performance management with end-to-end monitoring warn of the security of data stored in the application that fail and cause a malfunction that may be compromised

Datadog can monitor and alert on different source categories that incorporate log files, performance metrics, availability, configuration and tracking changes

Monitoring is directed to data points that generate large amounts of records and data that focus on a series of critical events",The start of the monitoring configuration of the application must be carried out by an expert developer in the subject so that its configuration is correct from the beginning and its operation is correct and in the future there is no damage or stop working properly
G2.com,Clark P.,IT Audit Specialist,4.5,"Datadog shows short, simple and easy-to-understand graphs to give an appropriate overview of the system's performance, which is great because it turns something that’s really complex into a very simple visual representation that can be understood quickly. It can be integrated with Cloud Watch, so you can monitor even without the agent installation, a very cool asset of an already powerful tool. Also, it provides a lightweight agent on hosts.","Datadog is an expensive software compared to other similar tools, like Zabbix and Icinga. I think it should come with a custom query language, which could be very handy for programmers. Also, it would be great if they could reduce the delays in monitoring agent response time"
G2.com,Wesley B.,Analys,4,"I have always felt that datadog has a very advanced system more than any other software that provides the same services because its good performance and the results that have been released have affirmed that all the monitoring of the app and programs of the company are well monitored by Datadog, providing a good 24/7 monitoring service making sure that any warning of something that is failing will reach the notification to the mail informing what is happening","To place a profile picture on my datadog account, direct it to another page to create an avatar and there is a possibility to customize the datadog account with the photo but I do not like to do all this process in order to have my photo and try to create my avatar in the page that directs me datadog and is a very slow page that has no explanation of how to do then choose to leave the photo without the account"
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Jessica O.",Devops engineer,4,"Datadog allows you to collect and cross-reference various metadata about your application--it's wonderful to have APM, container health monitoring, and logs in one place. Also, I spent a LOT of time with Datadog support... and I mean, A LOT, because our use case (our app is Dockerized and deployed on Aptible) is not typical. The support team was, pun intended, dogged in their persistence to help me get Datadog working for us. And it's a great value, cost-wise.","The query functionality on the logs is not as advanced/flexible as I'd like, nor are the alerting capabilities. For instance, I'd like to be able to run a given log query (e.g., how many errors like X in the last 12 hours) and post it to slack or email or whatever, and right now this isn't supported. Also, for us to really get full use, we need them to offer a BAA, since we are HIPAA compliant. (Right now, we restrict what goes into Datadog to stay compliant.)"
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Daniel M.",Senior Manager,4.5,"Quickly drag and drop the graphs to visualize metrics and events

You can clone and edit dashboards with templates

Through API it automatically generates new scorecards programmatically

I visualize the graphics metrics with maps and main lists

I supervise specific points in a graph to alert the members of the work team about possible problems

You can apply internal access controls to control panels",When it is integrated with too many app you start to see delays in the delivery of information that can last minutes is not much delay but if it affects so that my work is fast because those minutes make me lose time and therefore take the option to unlink several integrations so that the datadog platform is the same as fast as a start
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Charly Y.",Senior Financial,4,"Indicates the success or failure of each app installed on the computers of the company and so know the performance of each if its functionality is correct or something is failing, looking for low performance solutions making each app work without any problem

It shows me the success of the service with codes that refer to the possible errors that are in the system or when there is a code in HTTP status indicates the success showing in detail well informed of each warning that produces","In the option that they have to use for a free period the platform does not have technical support enabled, but in the other paid plans if it is enabled but it is free, which if it is free it is obvious that to begin with I would have many questions but I had no one to answer it with the training tutorials I learned, but many things were missing that when I started paying I asked them but at the beginning I did not like that detail"
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Henry K.",SSE,4.5,"Quickly analyze possible problems that may be occurring in the system filtering the solutions that can be generated before an error that causes serious damage

We discuss issues in context with production data to notify teams of changes and see who responded to alerts

When they are critical issues datadog notifies the performance problems of any metric

I collect the service statuses visualizing the correlations with graphic data to establish alert conditions in the infrastructure","The beginning of the process for the initial configuration took a lot of work to learn as I started to use it because I could not learn all the vocabulary that was strange in a certain way because you had words that you did not know what they were talking about, it was the only thing that cost me because after having learned all the correct process I realized how excellent this platform is"
G2.com,No name,,4,"We are using the dashboards for databases monitoring and some cloud integration. It's easy to set up, alerting is also easy to set up.","Sometimes there is a delay before the metrics shows up on the dashboards, which can be up to 5 min and is very important during critical incidents."
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Danny L.",Data analyst,5,Has many integrations with different cloud providers and technologies / applications out of the box.,There is a small problem installing DSC (not DataDog website documentation) on Azure windows domain controllers in place (using Azure extension).
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Dylan C.",CEO,4,"I find a software with a very advanced intelligence system to detect the alerts or performance problems of each system wherever the location is, which is well designed to validate all this information alerts with graphics that show in real time

notifies the performance problems that are affecting the system and this prevents that if it is a serious damage is solved in a quick time and not later when the system is more damaged and can not be easily fixed","The technical support I do not like because I ask them questions to which they respond with rather useless answers that do not give me a solution to what I ask or they make me review something that I tell them to review, I do not think that they have trained personnel to answer precisely in what you need to know"
G2.com,Leo K,devoper,5,The dashboards are easy to setup and give a good overview,The errors aren't always clear as to the problem when setting up.

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Oliver G.",software Developer,4," can have app performance tracking

- I have control of error rates and graphics with system latency percentages

- Detects and alerts about the performance problems of each user in the location where he is for his system

- saves engineering resources with self-maintained tests driven by AI

- I receive notifications to the email about the performance problems, either only from my network or a massive problem in the company

- the plans are economical are very affordable to buy

- helps to optimize the use of capacity in the hybrid infrastructure","The learning curve is very complicated because there is not enough information on how to do the initial configuration and the rest of the process to learn how to use it, and the little information that is in a complicated vocabulary to understand, contact me with support which If you explain some things to me and I pass a more detailed guide but in the same way I felt vocabulary that I did not understand"

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Connor G.",Data administrator,4.5,"the monitoring that Datadog poses about the apop in the cloud and the database servers of the company is something spectacular and very reliable because I can work on my pc computer with the peace of mind that the whole system is working well and that if something is for being damaged or eating a lot of resources Datadog is going to make it known to close programs or visualize the app that is presenting problems and solve them before it is too late and it is a more serious damage

analyzes the app and shows me a detailed report of how they are working and the performance that each one is having to know if the performance that is presenting is normal or is failing something",is a difficult platform to learn to use has a lot of concept that is not familiar and requires time at the beginning of the configuration to do everything right and that is a well configured system but it is worth learning because it provides more intelligence and is very useful

G2.com,Camila E.,"
Project Development Coordinator","4,5","The database is safe because with datadog it keeps me informed of any alert that can be presented with any app program that may be failing and causing possible damage

The prices are very economical to know so good service that they offer that help a lot with this software with the advanced functions and the visibility of app like java, python, go and others

the support is very good solves quickly and easily any concern you have, are very kind and understanding",I do not feel that I dislike some datadog because all the experience I have had with this software has been very good and it has helped me a lot because if I do not understand something they explain it to me in an easy and simple way to understand

G2.com,Peter N,IT and Services,2,The public dashboards are really useful for displaying and monitoring apps around the office. There are plenty of integrations and webhooks we can use to monitor our applications.,"Training is hard to find, and when I do find it, a lot of the instructions are outdated, or not Windows friendly. The learning curve was higher for me, and it discouraged me from moving forward with Datadog. I've sent emails to their training team and they said they'll update their training content in the future to make it more Windows friendly.

The Monitor Report that gets emails if formatted strangely, where the top alerting monitors / top notification is summarized, a lot of the monitor names get cut off. Even if you click in the email to view the report in a browser, our monitors and alerts have to be named a specific way since we share the account with other divisions in the company, so the report just shows a bunch of our monitors with the same initial name [Department] - [Product] - [Container]/[Service], the names get cut off after Department and Product, so the rest of the report is harder to read -- I'd have to hover my mouse over to see the full name."

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Linda K.",Operations Management,3.5,"With datadog I can control everything that happens in the system that can cause damage

I have real graphics that show me in real time how the system performance is

The prices are quite cheap with many functions that are very useful to pay at such low cost

I trace the errors shown by the data logging system to see if they have a solution","The support should be more specific with what they say with their explanations are little understood and manage to confuse me without being able to solve the problem, I think the software is very good just need a little more attention from the support service"

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Beatriz M.",IT Staff,4,"It is perfect for monitoring your applications performance, showing up all the relevant information in real time. With Datadog you can set alarms to notify any irregularity within the system. The API is very simple, so it allows integration with several applications or services. Besides, it allows for creation of a centralized source of data. About their costumer support, it’s very helpful and responsive.","Although it has many benefits when monitoring your system, it also has some limitations when it comes to report and analyze. It does not have the right tools for doing advanced graphing operations. Also, Datadog needs to be more robust in order to improve its comercial image and become more reliable to the audience. When it comes to billing, it isn’t completely straightforward, being confusing at times, while you end up without understanding the monthly costs."

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Kevin C.",CMO,4.5,"through datadog you can have the tracking of errors that can be caused in the app and be able to solve them so that the performance of the app is still normal

is an excellent platform that analyzes and gives solution to the problems that can be caused in the computer so that it can be navigated to perfection and if there is any program that could be damaging datadog, it is alert about this possible problem

Not only alerts on a single computer but also alerts on performance problems to several users in the location where they are

I receive critical question alerts by email to be more informed of the system that may be causing unwanted damages to the company",I do not see anything that I dislike about this monitoring platform I find the work it provides excellent to be calm that the computer or the app are good and will not lose information that is stored on the device

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Mylan P.",Lead Engineer,4,"you can track a customer

Optimize resources

Detects usage patterns

you can set an alert notification message

It has more than 200 integrations and I see that more and more","It is a pretty platform but quite complicated to understand and to manage because of my position in the company it helps me to understand a little more but even so I feel that there are parts of this platform that I do not understand

I feel that this platform is designed more for professional people in the area with extensive knowledge in the system because if there are people who execute this platform without having a wide knowledge it can fail in the attempt of the execution and programming"

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samara j.",IT team,"4,5","Something I especially like about Datadog is the endless integration options it provides. It works perfect with platforms like Slack and AWS. The dashboards always show all the relevant information on the same screen, especially when it comes to graphics. They’re also easy to customize and read. The interface is modern and intuitive.","Although I think the interface from Datadog is great, I think it lacks of options for configuring agents, so it can make this process quicker. Something Datadog really needs is to be woven into codes, in order to gain independence and become more efficient. Other than that, I consider Datadog to be a great tool."

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Arthur C.",Senior engineering,4,"You can track the performance of each app you have

Quickly analyze the solution to the problems that may arise in the app and platforms

warning of possible damages that may be caused before the damage is greater and causes irreparable damage

calculate the rates, ratios, or averages and see the graphs in real time

you can receive the alerts by email if at the moment I am not in the workplace

I can silence all alerts with a single click",Basically this platform is aimed at professional engineers because the programming language it has is very complex that is only understood by engineers

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Sophia G.",Supervisor,4,"The system events are pretty good. Datadog is very well designed to give visibility among the teams so that I can discuss issues in context of production data, write down the changes and notify my team, see who responded to that alert before, remember what was done to correct it and add their data together.

you only have to install agent and cloud integrations to bring metrics and events from your cloud and services in one place.","The configuration of this platform is just opened is very complicated I could not understand it I had to ask for help of engineering and support so that they could explain each of the categories I had already afterwards, it has made it easy to use it, but the first ones months I get headaches this app"

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Juergen S.",,4,"I pretty much only use the APM part of the software since that is most useful to my job (Developer). I can spent 5min in DataDog to identify work for the next week.

Integrating in existing product was very easy, setup and maintenance are easy. Does not feel like it adds any overhead to the app","There are a few features I would like to see as a developer, support is generally open to ideas, but it rarely ends up being implemented."

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David T.",Executive Director,4,"The free version offered to know it well before starting to pay I had a good idea of Datadog, I had my doubts if I was going to like it or not, that if it was good or not and I did not want to start paying for something that was not I knew how I was going to get out so I tried the free version and started using it and until now I have it, I liked it.

The attention to the client that they have from the beginning so it is free version and already later when it is bought it is equally good it does not change in anything and it is very fast","It is a great monitoring tool but to work properly, it is important to read a lot and see tutorials before starting to handle it. Everything is very complex, I have to ask for help from the engineers to understand words that said and did not understand what the icon was for or menu"

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Allan B.",Executive Assistant,4.5,"With this software I can see the problems that I and my team have also the information of the system and infrastructure of the site, it works in different operating systems and this facilitates the work, you can create notifications when the cpu reaches a high level of use or when some system is inactive","the configuration process can take and be too complicated is not easy to learn to manage the platform from one moment to another, it requires a lot of time and knowledge to be able to achieve the correct way to use it so that everything is fine"

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Anthony N J.",Information Technology Staff,5,"Datadog is a tool that can not be absent in any company, of whatever type, where different applications of different types are used, with its powerful tool, you can carry out a continuous monitoring of many programs and applications that are used daily, in a Same place, I must say that the first time I used this wonderful application surprised me, it has an optimal integration and in our university we can monitor almost 90% of the applications that we use from Datadog.","Sometimes, due to the number of applications that we have integrated to Datadog, there may be certain bugs, or delays in the delivery of information, I have noticed in some cases, delays of up to 20 seconds, I do not understand why this is due When everything is connected to it, there should not be this type of delay in the delivery of information."

G2.com,SeungYong O.,Software Engineer,4.5,"It has enough features for monitoring, easy to use, good manuals, price-worthy.",lack of notifications for breaking changes. I should check datadog blogs by myself to catch those changes.

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bailey b.",IT team,3.5,"Datadog has powerful integration. Practically, it can be supported with almost any service and it provides data collection with specific metrics and time series. The price is another great factor from Datadog, making it available and less expensive than the competition, especially for micro-services.",This is not an easy software to learn. The learning curve is heavy and it will take some time. The UI is rough and it’s something that definitely needs to be improved. Alerts are not precisely easy to set. This feature should be simplified.

G2.com,No name,,4,"Really nice the way Datadog let the users search and do queries of a particular container/app, and also allows you to track related logs among other containers.","Is not that easy to setup the different keywords or tags, by this I mean to allow the user to use some particular tags from logs to search/filter. You need to index those tags."

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William H.",Executive Director,4,"It does not hinder other tools that I'm working with, when I work in datadog it does not slow down the computer or I block it and that seems great to me compared to other platforms that when I open them slow down the computer and I can not work well","To put a profile picture in the datadog account, I have to register in another page to create an avatar and be able to put it in datadog I think it takes a long time to put a simple image should be upload a photo and go and not have to be registering in another page that takes me longer, choose not to put a photo that is not necessary and that I do not have time to be creating avatar"

G2.com,No Name,,3.5,We use Azure which Datadog complies with which is beneficial for us. Very good at providing/displaying IT analysis for Management to understand.,The interface is a little technical to use so IT still need to do a lot of the leg work when using this.

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James O.",Middle Mgmnt,4.5,"Datadog is a great software for monitoring, provides a great overview of the state of the infrastructure at the time you want, the information and help that gives us the official website is very useful and quite good, I can have control of everything that happens in the system that could cause damage, we get graphics that show in real time the total performance of the system, besides the prices are quite accessible and also has many functions taking into account the good price.","The support should improve a little, because when I have any questions and contact their explanations are not well known and can confuse me and I still leave with the same doubt without giving solution to the problem, however Datadog is a software that will comply with the work offered ."

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Jason G.",Engineer,3.5,"It is easy to manage to monitor the database in the cloud or servers, also integrates several cloud software tools, company and developer ready to use, maybe my profession is easy to use and is handled very well, from the principle I liked the technology that handled the platform so good",having to enter a platform to create an avatar to put in the profile picture auqnue is a different way of putting a photo should have the option of placing the normal photo that you want and not be mandatory to have to put the avatar created there are more important things to do to make an avatar to place it in the profile

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Christopher L.",IT,5,"System stats, software stats, API endpoints, events, dashboards, alerts, mobile apps, all in one. Datadog has a lot of pre-built solutions that you can implement in your infrastructure and if you will not find suitable solution you can build your own, great for AWS monitoring. Good customer support and documentation.","Lack of Azure monitoring tools, Datadog is very complex in building your own solutions. A bit too expensive for it`s functionality,Not very good for Azure if you are going to use marketplace solutions. Most of these are made for AWS and you will have to make something similar by yourself."

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Carolina S.",,5,"La base de datos es segura porque con el registro de datos me mantiene informado de cualquier alerta que pueda presentarse con cualquier programa de aplicación que pueda estar fallando y causando posibles daños

Los precios son muy económicos para saber tan buen servicio que ofrecen que ayudan mucho con este software con las funciones avanzadas y la visibilidad de aplicaciones como java, python, go y otras.

El soporte es muy bueno, resuelve rápida y fácilmente cualquier inquietud que tenga, es muy amable y comprensivo.",No siento que me disguste algún registro de datos porque toda la experiencia que he tenido con este software ha sido muy buena y me ha ayudado mucho porque si no entiendo algo me lo explican de una manera fácil y sencilla.

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Jeremiah F.",Senior Customer Care Engineer,4.5,"Although I'm not involved in the Deployment of Datadog, I use it's service often to review alerts, logs, and Server Statuses. Recently I was tasked with building a Dashboard in React/Node. When it came time to figure out how to import Datadog without API access I found it was extremely easy to just pull an iframe from whatever charts/graphs I wanted.",Although I don't have exact figures it's my understanding that Datadog is rather costly. All of the features are worth it though!

G2.com,Nick H,,5,"Datadog as a solution based on the cloud, which works in an idea way the monitoring of implementations in the cloud, with a great set of API and analysis of records, not only it is possible to see the current status of its resources, you can also have data of them, you can always contact the helpdesk, the team works in a very responsible way and will help you find any solution to your problems","The system in the cloud has a fresh and current methodology, but from time to time some frames can not be presented on the open web due to security problems, but it's ok for me"

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Ariadni-Karolina A.",Principal Data Engineer,5,"Datadog is a monitoring service that gives you a great overview of the state of your infrastructure at any given time. I like how it works almost out of the box with many popular frameworks such as nginx, celery and django. The documentation and tutorials provided on the official website are quite good, and since Datadog widely adopted, it's easy to get one's questions answered.","Datadog is a monitoring service that gives you a great overview of the state of your infrastructure at any given time. I like how it works almost out of the box with many popular frameworks such as nginx, celery and django. The documentation and tutorials provided on the official website are quite good, and since Datadog widely adopted, it's easy to get one's questions answered."

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Rex J.",Marketing Manager,4.5,The monitoring ability allows us to debug and troubleshoot our data and also be used to present analysis to upper management when needed,"There is a high learning curve to get the initial onboarding configuration process to be working, which typically requires a developer or someone with extensive programming experience to set up."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,We use datadog to aggregate logs from very different source and easily dig through them. Viewing logs in context is amazing to identify and solve issues quickly,It’s a bit more complex to setup than other alternatives

G2.com,allan T,,5,"Datadog is a simple to install and use. It can be used across platform, on premise or cloud. You can monitor everything securely without installing many server because datafog is a SAAS monitoring solution. free version is available also.",can cost a lost for big volume (more than 500 objects). Log retention politics is actually limited to 30 days and you need to ask for more. Price for 30 days is 2.5$ per object.

G2.com,Cary W,Cloud Operations Engineer,3.5,"Fully customizable dashboards make it easy to see the things you look at most often. Also, it has a ton of integrations for alert systems like pagerduty and VictorOps, ticketing systems, AWS, etc.",A lot of documentation found on their site is out of date. This makes it difficult to get things set up properly at times

G2.com,Bess M,Lead System Analyst - Kronos,5,Instant online chat support rather than waiting days for a return call. I also like that it is a java free web based program and that navigating the monitors via notification links is easy. Integration with an internal slack support channel helps organize monitoring into one channel rather than being mixed with email.,"For IP monitoring the IP has to be live to do the setup, would prefer if the setup could be done without the monitor being online yet but there is also an advantage to making sure it is up as part of the setup so that feature is both a like and dislike. We have had issues with monitors getting stuck and having to be restarted to clear."

G2.com,Leena H,Event Manager,3,It helps us to monitor traffic on our website,"Not very mobile friendly, some learning curve."

G2.com,"
Gary H.",Software Engineer,5,"Datadog permits observing of all that you need without conveying extra equipment or using stockpiling in your datacenter. The greater part of your conceivable needs are secured by API commercial center, where you can discover bunches of answers for various use cases. You approach both current condition of assets and history of this state, so you can dissect your issues in review way to discover what was happening that time. Observing of both accessibility and execution of your administrations by using execution counters, log investigation and cautioning on explicit occasions. Incredible email and specialized instruments joining for warning purposes, permits to screen your frameworks proactively and discover conceivable issues previously genuine effect for your assets.","Complex APIs settings to get wanted outcome. No disconnected arrangements and apparatuses, cloud living arrangement is cool and current methodology, however a few frameworks can not be presented to open web due to security concerns, and neighborhood intermediaries can influence the speed of information exchange"

G2.com,Mike D,Supervisor,5,"Framework details, programming details, API endpoints, occasions, dashboards, alarms, versatile applications, across the board. Datadog has a ton of pre-manufactured arrangements that you can actualize in your foundation and in the event that you won't discover reasonable arrangement you can assemble your own, incredible for AWS checking. Great client support and documentation.It does not prevent different instruments that I'm working with, when I work in datadog it doesn't back off the PC or I square it and that appears to be extraordinary to me contrasted with different stages that when I open them back off the PC and I can not function admirably","Absence of Azure observing apparatuses, Datadog is unpredictable in building your own answers. A bit unreasonably costly for it's usefulness There's loads of broadly utilized applications which log naturally to stderr, and this causes Datadog to arrange all that they log as a blunder, when it isn't the situation."

G2.com,John E,Software Engineer,4,"Datadog has a nice dashboard that makes it extremely easy to use and very user friendly.

Easily syncs with AWS.

Customer support is usually very quick and helpful.

Not at all mobile friendly.","Performs poorly on Microsoft Azure compared to how well it works with AWS.

Not at all mobile friendly."

G2.com,No name,,5,They make it super easy to get metrics into datadog then to create monitors from those metrics,it is a bit pricey if you have many servers but it's also pretty worth it

G2.com,No name,,4,Easy to set up custom metric collection and dashboards. You get a lot of metrics collected automatically when you integrate with cloud providers like GCP. You get a lot of insight out of the data you collect.,High price. Charged per. We're migrating off of it at work because we can't prevent it from charging us for every new ephemeral host we start with Dataflow on GCP etc. Usage based billing would make more sense.

G2.com,Julian A,SRE,4.5,"It's written now in Go.

- Allows integration with many tools and applications

- Dashboards are just amazing

- You can write your own scripts to parse logs and integrate them

- You can monitor all your infrastructure on site or in the cloud

- Agent installation can be automated.

- Advanced graph functionality.

- High level of customization.

- Alert notifications via e-mail and PagerDuty

- Full API access

- Sampling intervals of 10 seconds

- Mute all alerts with 1 click during upgrades and maintenance

- Supports Windows, Linux, and Mac

- Datadog’s overall robustness

- Easy to create custom graphs and metrics on the fly

- Monitors resource metrics well","Price. It's not cheap

- Heavy learning curve to several key features.

- Not very good for Azure

- The datadog agent eats a bit too much memory

- No significant cons, though I'd like to be able to monitor RDS health without integrating to the entire AWS."

G2.com,Kellan O.,Technical Support Representative,4.5,I love how easy it is to design dashboards and the fact that DD pulls data from almost any part of our infrastructure.,Datadog does not integrate directly with Azure alerts or MongoDB Atlas.

G2.com,No name,,5,The Datadog team keeps building new features that we need before we even know we need them! They are so quick to add features and fix bugs that we report.,Not really a dislike but their APM and logging still lag behind some of the more mature products out there. They are rapidly improving both though and they're very much usable.
G2.com,"
Ignacio A.",Web Developer,4.5,"its alert system, it helped to quickly identify an ongoing issue in PROD",some of its query filters are hard to understand
G2.com,Adam H,CTO,5,"It lets me know when my servers are having issues when they happen, instead of when an end user on the server contacts us. This has been critical for our operations, as occasionally there are some rogue processes that hog all of the server resources.",It doesn't have a great solution for PHP.

G2.com,John B,IT manager,5,The ability to see the metrics across our whole stack in one place.,I have nothing to dislike. The product is super helpful

G2.com,"
Kranthi K.",,4,"Datadog is used by multiple teams in our company to constantly monitor the infrastructure and make sure that the systems are working smoothly.

Datadog offers a simple and very easy to use interface which makes it easy for us to train the new team members on the tool.

Datadog also offers a vast variety of integration with third party tool which makes it easy for us to build custom reports and alerts."," The initial deployment of the tool can be a little challenging especially if you have not used the tool before.

2. The delays in the monitoring agents can be reduced as sometimes it is very critical to receive the alerts in real time and delays can lead to system failures.

3. The pricing of the tool is also a bit high as compared to other APM's."

G2.com,Kent L,support engineer,4.5,Extremely well detailed analytics for our cloud services,"A little bit on the pricier side, so we need to scale back on our usage at times"

G2.com,No name,,4.5,Setting up alerting for Windows servers and Linux containers was very easy. We had this plugged into our Dev systems all the way up to production systems within days.,Having to adjust our tagging strategy/naming conventions in AWS to make dashboards for some instances. We have same server setups in dev environments through production and don't want individual dashboards. having them tagged correctly allows us to be in one view and just change environment through drop down menu

G2.com,No name,,4,"The simple it is to get started, just install the agent and create a dashboard. Then personalize the metrics you want to track",So far I didn't find anything to strongly dislike. Everything is pretty much very well done.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,It provides united view of logs from multiple servers that is best,It doesn't maintain the history of logs.

G2.com,Pascal L,Release Manager,4,"Data Dog is really great at collecting data and give real-time perfomance metrics.

It is super flexible and work for all the technologies that we are using.

Also it is super easy too configure an alerting system like Pagerduty to notify us if something is odd.","Within Data Dog, the dashboarding is quite hard to figure out.

There is time were too much information is just disturbing. Data Dog could fall in this pattern if you don't design properly your dashboard."

G2.com,Luke H,SecDevOps Engineer,4,Datadog's myriad integrations make it useful for monitoring just about any web stack you can imagine.,"The permissions model for dashboards make it a free-for-all. You have two choices, admin or unprotected. If the dashboards are unprotected, anyone can edit them. In larger team environments where users have varying levels of skill and a different view of which metrics are important, this can create a mess."
G2.com,No name,,3.5,It's a very good tool for data related queries,User Interface need to be improved. There can be more detailed statistics graphs

G2.com,Jack J,Angular Developer,4,"It has a simple, clean and effective user interface. It provides advanced graphs and proficient documentation. It has a good pricing model. It brilliantly measures memory and CPU usage",Its installation can be confusing for a beginner. Logging capabilities of datadog are not very robust. The free version has limited features.

G2.com,No name,,2.5,Ability to create monitor/alerts and dashboards. Alarms are useful too. Dashboards are nice and lot of options to create graphical representations.,"Learning Curve is not straightforward, often there is latency in logs and you have to know your filters to search for events, it's not easy to identify based on filters attributes."

G2.com,Peaveen T,Software developer,4,The alerts are sent to email instantly and makes the job easy for the developers to monitor what's wrong in case with the applications.,The UI in the web is little cluttered up and needs to be polished more.

G2.com,Ramesh V,C++ Developer,4.5,"1. User Interface is very good.

2. API is flexible. Designed with keeping Developer view in mind.

3. Good Admin part for team.",I did't came across anything I feel disliking about.

G2.com,Piyush G,Programmer Analyst,4,"-Very easy to use

-It works for all technologies that we are using

-its helps us writing our own parse logs and integrate them

-Graph functionality within dotadog is very advanced as compared to other apm's

-Staff is very supportive",Soemtimes working with the dashboard is little hard and i think the datadog agent eats a much memory as compared to other monitoring apps

G2.com,No name,,5,Dashboards let me display all important system status' on a single screen.,This is a tool that I genuinely have no dislikes of.
G2.com,No name,,4,Super flexible and tons of metrics by which you can set alerts and build dashboards,You have to be pretty technical to use the product.
G2.com,Mattew F,Capacity engineer,5,I liked how easy it was to get my on-prem and AWS systems into the same dashboard and system.,"For me, I would have liked to seen pricing based on data points ingested, not just node count. This can cause things to get pricey pretty fast."
G2.com,Philip E,,4,"We used Data Dog for our Saas and Paas alerting and incident monitoring. It integrated very nicely with our other systems, we integrated with Hipchat for instance to monitor some of our critical services. Our team could then keep an eye on issues as they develop and see trending problems very easily. The visualizations are very cool, while we tenedd to not get too much use out of them.","I mostly have nothing negative to say, the pricing is very reasonable, the integrations are great. I suppose if I had to come up with something it would be that there can be a somewhat overwhelming amount of information being presented sometimes but once you get past the learning curve it is not bad at all."
G2.com,No name,,1.5,"This Datadog service is very convenient with its structure for tracking personal site statistics, tracking","To master it you need to spend a lot of practice, this is a big minus, not everyone can understand it."
G2.com,No name,,4.5,I really wish I had more systems to view. The dashboards and deep dive charts are excellent and easy to view and action on. Great use of color and charting to divide metrics.,Not great for our small operation due to cost.
G2.com,Ernest M,,5,"System stats, software stats, API endpoints, events, dashboards, alerts, mobile apps, all in one. Also basic APM and logging. Cloud integration plus agents, and extensible checks. Beats using something like nagios hollow.","Expensive at scale, very little discounting."
G2.com,Umesh R,Sr. Software engineer,4,Easy to make health dashboards for all the services.,The only thing that I dislike is there is no search for type of errors you need to filter.
G2.com,Matt P,Principal Devops eng,5,"I most like the fact that I have nearly complete control of what and how I monitor my infrastructure, but am not tasked with maintaining the monitoring infrastructure.",Some parts of the featureset are robust yet not intuitive. I would ideally like some cycles to be spent polishing those up.
G2.com,No name,,4,DataDog keeps up with features and platforms that modern team deploy and maintain. For example K8S and Containers,The UI can ben less than intuitive and could use some more UI tips IMO
G2.com,No name,,4.5,"The fact that its extremely easy to get started. The agent install is a one line command and you are good to go. Integration with all popular channels such as Slack, Pagerduty. Ready made dashboards add to the charm as absolutely low barrier to entry and sensible defaults.","The fact that its extremely easy to get started. The agent install is a one line command and you are good to go. Integration with all popular channels such as Slack, Pagerduty. Ready made dashboards add to the charm as absolutely low barrier to entry and sensible defaults."
G2.com,"
Stephen V.",Director of Engineering Operations,4.5,Highly performant visualizations and metric math. Very cost effective for their metric service,"Logs service is expensive, although reasonably so. Somewhat frequent issues with metric ingest."
G2.com,Manoj  A,Lead Consultant,4,Have used datadog for log analysis and it's features were very helpful,With respect to user experience it has to be improved

G2.com,"
liguetta D.",,4,Monitoring of Docker containers and other containerization methods and approaches.,Only available for modern deployment methods and not for legacy deployments.

Capterra,Dnyanoba M.,Deputy Manager,5,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,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.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"One of the most praised features of Datadog is its comprehensive and flexible monitoring capabilities. It can collect and analyze data from various sources, such as servers, containers, databases, and cloud services, providing a unified view of the entire IT infrastructure.","Datadog pricing model, which can be relatively expensive for smaller organizations or startups"

Capterra,Jim L.,Engineer,4,The dashboards and alerts are great for monitoring system status. The automated tests are great for checking the status of our systems externally.,Because they are a one-stop shop it is difficult to figure out the exact tooling you need for a problem. They are solving EVERY problem so it's hard to sort things out.
Capterra,Hyma Roshini G.,Software Quality Analyst,5,"Able to see spikes on the dashboard , easy and fesiable",Takes more time sometimes to monitor logs
Capterra,Christina Z.,it specialist,5,"A lot of fun for less money. Great software for monitoring kubernetes infrastructure. Very clear dashboards, monitoring is very intuitive, great to use. Setup is simple and installation of the agent on PC was seamless. Aggregate views into one clear dashboard and monitor all metrics at the same time according to various filters and parameters. Many additional features to enrich the data. User friendly.",In the time I have been using it I have not found anything that would not suit me with DataDog I have been very satisfied and it has met my expectations.
Capterra,Mbonjo R.,Network Engineer,5,"Using Datadog has been an amazing journey, the feature of providing a unified view of the entire infrastructure of the system making it easier to work on makes it amazing",I haven't encountered any deficiency using Datadog

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,Search Filter I liked the most in Datadog. We can easily find the desired data thru search parameters and on top of that we can filter out the data by specifying a date range.,"In the Search filter, we have to follow specific Datadog standards. It becomes slow when data is available in large amounts."

Capterra,Jaspreet S.,Software Engineer,5," Its one of the best monitoring tool i have used so far. The UI is very beautiful, simple and easy to understand. Monitoring is very accurate and quick due to the UI.The log for servers can also be analyzed by simply searching via clusterid or other tags.",None that I'm aware of. It does its work perfectly and accurately.
Capterra,Laura D.,Softwaredeveloper,5,I really like that datadog offers a free tier to get startet with it. It helped building a net of monitoring around our servers and services. We have implemented a wide collection of (they call it synthetic tests) that we use as an continuous integration test suite. We even can monitor the performance of different application versions.,"Even if their locally installed agent on our servers is very flexible and can collect so many information, the configuration via YAML files is difficult to start with. The learning curve here is pretty steep in the beginning."
Capterra,Tarang K.,DevOps Engineer,5,Some of the pros of Datadog are:1. The APM feature of Datadog is quite useful.2. You can stream logs into it too.3. Its easier to look into metrics history4. Managing the downtime for various resources is simple.5. Visualization provided in the dashboard is quite intuitive.,1. JSON parsing of logs can't be done.2. It has a bit lack of proper documentation.3. Navigating to new areas in the dashboard can be a hassle.4. A bit overwhelming for newcomers.5. It has more customizations but less simplicity.

Capterra,Oskar R.,Technical project leader,5,"One of the most notable things that I like about Datadog is its ability to provide real-time insights into the health and performance of IT systems, including servers, applications, networks, and cloud environments. Its wide range of monitoring and analytics features, including performance metrics, event logs, and alerts, can help teams identify and diagnose issues quickly and accurately, enabling them to take corrective action more efficiently.","I have reported that Datadog can be expensive, particularly for larger organizations or those with complex IT systems. While Datadog does offer a range of pricing options, including usage-based plans, some users may find it difficult to justify the cost of the platform, particularly if they have limited IT resources or budget constraints."

Capterra,Alexander H.,President,5,We were up and running in one night. I have minimal dev skills and required my dev to setup with me. Seemed really easy with even the knowledge I had and the free trial made it simple to try.,When you initially signup make sure you choose the right server to log into. That should be in BOLD.

Capterra,Paulo C.,Founder,5,Generous free plan with detailed information both on server and application monitoring.,"Nothing unusual. Being a paid platform, it naturally set limits on its free plan (fair) but, for this reason, you may prefer the responsibility to deploy an open source alternative (to remove those limits) instead of upgrade to a paid plan."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"I liked the ease of use and the comprehensive monitoring capabilities that Datadog provides. The ability to quickly set up and customize dashboards to monitor application performance and health was very helpful. Furthermore, the alerting system was incredibly helpful in identifying problems quickly.","I found that the dashboard setup and configuration process was a bit cumbersome and confusing. It took me a while to figure out how to customize and configure the dashboard to my specific needs. Additionally, I found the pricing to be quite expensive for the features it offers."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,Datadog is a user-friendly tool with strong visualization capabilities that allows for real-time monitoring of application and infrastructure performance. Its intuitive dashboard and efficient alert system make it an ideal tool for quickly addressing any issues that may arise,"The downside of using this tool is the limited data granularity and customization options in the dashboard. There are very few possibilities to personalize the dashboard and the data displayed, which can make it challenging to gain the desired insights."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"I liked the fact that Datadog is extremely user-friendly, making it easy to set up and use. It also provides a great variety of features and integrations that offer real-time monitoring, alerts and analytics. The detailed metrics and reporting make it easy to identify and track performance issues, and the visualizations provide a great way to quickly understand performance trends.",My least favorite thing about Datadog is the high cost associated with the service.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"I liked the fact that DataDog provides an easy-to-use platform for visualizing, monitoring, and alerting on all my infrastructure metrics. It's very comprehensive and the integrated dashboards allow me to quickly identify any issues. It's also great that it can integrate with other technologies, allowing me to have a complete view of my system.",I didn't like the complexity of setting up custom dashboards and metrics. It was difficult to find the right combination of settings and tools to get the desired result.
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5," Dashboards are very nice, agents install easily and granularity can be adapted to your stack.","Is expensive, very expensive. It makes sense if you don't want to worry about where to put your data."
Capterra,billl w.,dir of platform engineering,5,the ease of implimentation and the ability to capture meaningfully info easilyquickly,it's super expensive....almost cost prohibitive

Capterra,Isak P.,Developer,5,"The interface is user-friendly and easy to navigate, and it provides detailed insights and analytics that allow me to identify and troubleshoot issues quickly. Datadog integrate seamlessly with other tools and services, giving us a great overview of our infrastructure.","The most significant drawback is its price, which may be expensive for small businesses or organizations."

Capterra,Maalainine Y.,Head of Infra,5,Datadog is on of the best observability tools. Well integrated in modern cloud infrastructure and applications,I would say the cost and cost management. From a FinOps perspective they can do better.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,I like Datadog APM which help our developer to troubleshoot various deep level issues.,"probably the integration with log management with DD trace with APM, as we have some difficulties link the log injested with trace ID etc but some of logs are not linked with APM. I hope there's a better compatibilities with custom PHP application with APM & Log management"

Capterra,Ryan C.,CTO,5,"Love the ease and granularity you can get with APM. I use it weekly (almost daily) to see what are our underperforming DB queries and API calls, and has a nice correlation to the underlying timings. Ease of deployment was very important and also super simple. In a Kubernetes environment, we got a lot of powerful tooling simply by adding the datadog agent"," Given the billing model, it is WAY too easy to get overcharged. We had an accidental infinite loop in our software and a logging statement in that loop. Because of that simple bug, we got charged 10x our normal monthly charges!"

Capterra,Josh Z.,Staff Site Reliability Engineer,5,Compared to our previous observability tool it was incredibly easy connecting Datadog to all of our data sources. All the connectors we needed were already created so my team didn't have to spend time writing code to collect and send telemetry.,"Some features can be a bit expensive such as synthetic tests and while there are tools to help track spend, there could be a bit more granularity in the RBAC on who can turn on features that have additional."

Capterra,ryan l.,it director,5,It is easy to provision and integrates into modern applications,"For basic monitoring of our legacy solutions, the software is to expensive"

Capterra,Rafeek M.,SRE Engineer,4,"Metrics collection and it's representation, also would like to engage in RUM and synthetic monitoring.","All are good, nothing to suggest anything"

Capterra,Sandeep J.,Systems Engineer,5,"I need not have multiple monitoring solutions for different Applications. So, creating combined Dashboards/Monitors/Alerts is very convenient.","Pricing is a little on the high end, but it's definitely worth it ."

Capterra,Marcos F.,SRE Team Lead,5,"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.","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."

Capterra,Shagun R.,Cloud Engineer,4,"Datadog provides real-time insights into the performance of applications, servers, and services. It helps you quickly identify and troubleshoot issues before they become critical.Datadog is easy to set up and use. It requires minimal configuration and supports various cloud services and integrations, It provides a comprehensive monitoring system for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.","Limited Customization Options: While Datadog provides a lot of pre-built dashboards and visualizations, it does not support extensive customizations.Datadog is a high-end monitoring platform, and its pricing reflects that. It can be expensive for small businesses, especially those who don't have a large budget for monitoring software."

Capterra,Ben C.,VP of Software Engineering,5,Easy monitoring and debugging of issues.,Pricey for our scale. Some search features are not fully integrated into our main workflow (APM)

Capterra,Jay L.,Enterprise Architect,4,"Correlation between APM, Infra, Log, Network and everything can make it possible to view in multiple dimensions. Also, RUM feature is so strong to cover the end-to-end observability in realtime.",One of the most expensive tool. And it could be challenged by the management.

Capterra,Ashok R.,SRE,4,"Building Dashboards, Observability at the granular level","Terminology , need to distinguish different resources and not tag them as one"

Capterra,Parag D.,leader,4,Will need to learn before commenting. Generally good dashboards but heavy lift and too little help from DD.,"Company seems difficult to have deep conversations or even pointers to assist, without having to pay for even 1 hour..."

Capterra,Garrett S.,Senior System Administrator,5,"Ease of use, flexibility of dashboard creation and views.",Almost too many configurations make it feel overwhelming. there could be a little more documentation and guides to help point you in the right direction or have related tools in the datadog subset.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,Platform Lead,5,"We do like easy management and analysis of logs, tracing.",Helm charts is bit hard to understand. Configuration might be hard for non experienced person

Capterra,Donald H.,Software Engineer,5, easy filter logs and find errors- ability to setup alerts based on logs,"was a little challenging to get the alerts setup just right but once figured out, it was easy going forward"

Capterra,Chris C.,Head of Infrastructure,5,Best user experience-Unified view of all metrics. It is a lifesaver when troubleshooting performance issues-A broad range of product offerings,Expensive!-The pricing model isn't as flexible as it should be. You can only adjust your yearly contract 3 times per year.-Expect to spend more time managing costs than you would like.

Capterra,Kyle W.,VP of Engineering,5,We now have billions of logs hitting Data Dog every month. It's a great tool for monitoring and debugging what is going on in the platform. We have alserts setup based on the logging so we are instantly notified of any issues.,Some of the JSON parsing on nested logs come out a little wonky. We overcame this by adding specific logs from our applications that we can search on.

Capterra,Srinivas N.,Vice President,5,"Service Map, Session Replay, Custom metrics and monitors","We had a sticker shock after onboarding, as the was the hosts were counted for certain infrastructure was not clear from the documentation."

Capterra,Gijun L.,Principal Solutions Architect,4,We evaluated the log part due to the budget at this. time. Datadog implements seamless experience with our applications with minimum configuration.,Interface seems a little bit outdate while it conveys the information that we are looking for.

Capterra,Gavin M.,Engineer,5, Easy all in one platform. It connects to a ton of providers and gives me easy access,Cost. It expensive . Wish there was a free tier

Capterra,Isaac J.,Principal SRE Architect,5,"I can handle ALL things in Datadog. I have an answer for CI / Pipelines, arbitrary metrics, trace data, logging and more.","There are a lot of specific costs. Compare, if you will, with NewRelic (all features are free) or Dynatrace (cost on retention and davis units). If you enable ""all the things"", it can be costly."

Capterra,Matthew R.,Director of Platform,5,The software can scale with the business needs. You can start with basic features or leverage many as you like (for $$) to gain deeper insights. Engineers once onboarded use it heavily to spot issues or troubleshoot more obscure bugs both in production and development.,"You often need to review usage and costs. Misconfigurations, migration projects (where legacy + new infrastructures are required), integrations which may cause double reporting need to be observed to prevent run-away spend."

Capterra,Drew M.,Software Architect,4,"Overall observability is good, and the way all of the offerings interact is helpful.","basic APM requires code customization, which isn't the case with competing products. Documentation for anything beyond basic integration is lacking. Customer support is a bit of a bait and switch; great during eval, and bad once you've bought the product."

Capterra,Phi Vu N.,Engineering Manager,5,Realtime User Monitoring is a great feature that helps us to support customer requests.,I don't see cons for this product yet. Everything is ok so far.

Capterra,Matt H.,Devops Engineer,5,"I love the ease of use, the up-to-date documentation, and the product capabilities.","Support is slow and lacking, costs can get out of control fast and are not straightforward."

Capterra,Justin H.,Senior Engineer,4,Easy to get all of our various sources of data into the platform.,"Murky pricing model, dashboarding options are limited compared to other products."

Capterra,Gaspar R.,Principal Infrastructure Engineer,5,"Ease of use and integrations. Log management is outstanding, as well as Kubernetes integration",Lack of a simple Prometheus integration. Agent configuration docs (for specifics) is sometimes hard to find

Capterra,Jason C.,Senior Platform Engineer,4,"Super easy to spin up and deploy, especially in kubernetes.","It is expensive for a company our size, we need to decide which logs are important to keep."

Capterra,Cara M.,Sr. Cloud Engineer,5,"Being able to combine all of our analytics tools in one place makes it easy to find the right information to investigate, monitor, and resolve operational issues quickly. Combining products like logs and APM traces makes both tools even more powerful for finding and understanding problems with our applications.","If there's one drawback, it's the cost, which can become expensive for monitoring high-throughput systems or systems with a lot of hosts."

Capterra,Supriya K.,RPA Developer,5,"Datadog provides a great, easy-to-use and extensible interface for displaying data.","The log analytics process is complex, difficult to analyze."

Capterra,David G.,Software Architect,5,"Can monitor ANYTHING. Centralized place for log analysis, security monitoring, end user monitoring, custom business metrics. Report and alert.","Some items visible in the UI are not capable of being monitored. Unable to get APM for PHP working under litespeed.Improvements in alerting would be nice, better escalation, SMS integration, etc."

Capterra,David D.,Director of Security,4,"perfect tool for public cloud AWS based company with also internally using SaaS tools only ... Huge number of connectors, usable dashboards and reporting, quite nice and fast search in logs which is good for incident/security incident investigation",we integrate yet with another tooling like Laceworks ... I think one tool can't fit all use cases

Capterra,Aviram R.,Developer - devops,4,"All in one shop. APM, DB monitoring , synthetic transaction and log analysis",APM does not work well on nodejs asyc services. Might be hard to track transactions.

Capterra,P S Syed K.,Senior Technical Advisor,5,Real User Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring,End to End Tracing for .Net applications

Capterra,Daniel L.,CTO,4,"Easy to setup, looking through logs was straightforward",Doesn't have enough support for vercel serverless functions

Capterra,Eric K.,Owner,5,"I was amazed at how fast logs are searched, indexed, and filtered for a very reasonable price.","The greatest difficulty was figuring out the pricing structure. It is very reasonable, but also very flexible, which creates many options when trying to discern index logs vs non-index logs vs. retention, etc. They were very supportive during my setup and had a few calls to discuss setup and answer my pricing questions."

Capterra,Andy Q.,Software Developer,4,"DD is great at ingesting and centralizing logs and infometrics generated across multiple applications within an organization and allows an easy overview, and easily drilling into specific instances"," It can be difficult making sure the data is being aggregated correctly in the ""DD-esque"" way"

Capterra,Marco S.,VP of Engineering,4, lots of integrations readily available. Setup is quick and easy to have results back.,"cost, and no transparency on what the cost breakdowns, and how to improve/reduce them."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"Log Management for DataDogHQ is: Cheap, Easy to Use, Great Timeline UI.",I think searching for logs by text has not always been the easiest to do.

Capterra,Scott B.,Director of Site Reliability,5,It's pretty easy to get a lot out of Datadog right out of the box -- the AWS and other integrations are amazing and easy to use.,It's REALLY expensive.It's not so easy to really really tweak the dashboarding and alerts to do more advanced mathematics or analysis.

Capterra,James O.,"Senior Manager, Engineering",5,Ease of use and flexibility. Beginning teams can leverage out of the box but you can grow into this product as it is quite feature rich. The product just works.,It is so expensive that we consistently have to trim usage when not needed. Also due to this we have to justify the product constantly

Capterra,Andrew G.,Sr. Engineering manager,4,"Flexible logging with JSON payloads, ability to act on ingested data without indexing.",Cost correlating to indexed logs makes some of what I'd like to do infeasible. Facets and some other concepts are not very intuitive

Capterra,Joseph G.,Systems & Network Admin,5,"Able to ingest system logs, app logs, and other logs along with process stats and system metrics to get a wholistic picture of how your servers and applications are running for your business.","Setup does take a while and there is several configuration files to adjust, but once this is done you will not need to touch them again for the lifecycle of the install."

Capterra,Ivan C.,Head Of Engineering,4,Application Performance Monitoring and USM,It's hard to know up front how much a particular configuration is going to cost

Capterra,Mark D.,VP of Engineering,5,"Being able to funnel AWS CloudWatch logs into Datadog made speed of deployment of Datadog incredibly fast - days instead of weeks.The log searching and faceting are extremely powerful. It's responsive, everything loads fast, and I can find single log lines in seconds.","Being able to create facets on historical data would be great.When digging into log lines, being able to navigate back to previous lines that we read through would be great too. Sometimes we're clicking around so fast that a log line is long gone. I end up copying the URL and pasting it into a doc so I can refer back to it."

Capterra,Jacob V.,Systems Administrator,4,Multiple tools / functions we needed provided by one service.,"Some services need additional development/features. Specifically I would like to replace our Site24x7 SLA reports with DataDog SLO monitoring / reports, but features and functionality are not there yet. We have also had less than stelar experience with DataDog support, basically being non-responsive."

Capterra,George L.,DevOps,5,"APM IntegrationLogs ManagementAlerts and NotificationsEasy to integrate with any cloud ""out of the box""",

Capterra,Jeff G.,Tech Director,5,"Datadog is intuitive, easy to configure, and easy to use.",The cost for Datadog is too expensive.

Capterra,Shervin Z.,Senior Cloud Systems Engineer,5,"Diligence, details and deep of monitoring all detail.","capturing every single details, validity of details and more importantly capability to monitor everything!!!"

Capterra,Krista V.,QA Lead,5,"As a non-technical QA person, I needed a tool to help automate tests without a lot of the technical aspects. Datadog allows me to build and schedule tests by clicking through the online version of our tool, making it incredibly simple. It also records what's wrong and allows me to edit the paths at any time if we ever make changes.",I wish I was able to use this same functionality for our mobile app or even for processes like account creation. Since we push our sign up through a payment portal we're unable to use Datadog in the same was there.
Capterra,Tim C.,"Director, Software Platform Development",5,Datadog is a solid and stable product. They provide easy to use features and functionality that sets the standard for APM and Security tools - and their suite of tools is continuously expanding to important areas. The APM capabilities were able to handle our complex technology stack with little to no configuration necessary.,"Not necessarily a con, more of a caution to monitor your consumption.. We worked with the customer success team to ensure our account was right sized based on forecasted usage. In the beginning we had to monitor our on-demand consumption as we outgrew our initial needs, this was handled incredibly well by the Datadog team, but you do need to keep an eye on your own consumption to avoid additional costs."
Capterra,Scott S.,Head of Engineering,5,"Easy to use, wide range of features all in one solution",dd-agent setup in Aptible is not usable or difficult
Capterra,Rushabh P.,Technical Specialist,5,The Ability to pattern millions of log entries.,The performance of the log ingestion reduces if more than 200 files are open. We have to constantly restart the agent and reach out to support but do not get much help.
Capterra,Adam J.,CISO,4,We use this as our SIEM. It's not quite as easy touse as Splunk but it gets the job done at a much nicer price.,Search interface/language is unintuitive.

Capterra,Agustin S.,Head of Infrastructure,4,"We discover Datadog as a better alternative to NewRelic which was extremely expensive.We found that Datadog is a very powerful tool with tons of features and services. It provides very detailed performance insights such as speed, latency, uptime, potential threats, etc. We use it mainly for Application monitoring and Real User Monitoring, and we found out that it correlates events between different services which makes it very easy to pinpoint issues with our apps.","It was a little hard to installed all the integrations.And because of a lack of communication with our account managers we ended up paying much more than we thought when deciding to switch to Datadog.The integration with AWS resulted in all host from all environments to appear in Datadog, many of which we didn't need to, and that resulted in a very expensive bill for that specific month."

Capterra,Michael L.,Engineering Lead,5,Easy to use and gives us the data we need to understand what is happening in our applications.,It has taken us a while to implement. Ebs support is not as intuitive as others.

Capterra,Darien T.,Sr. Linux Engineer,5,We use Datadog to monitor our Kubernetes cluster. It is easy to deploy by using Helm chart. Building the charts and graph is easy to learn.,"One of the charts, I would like for Datadog to change where I can select the date instead scrolling via the shorter duration timeline."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,The UI is fantastic! Easy to use and understand. The details that I get is unmatched in the industry.,Tool opens too many tabs so it's difficult to go back to a previous screen.

Capterra,Richard P.,Senior DevOps Architect,5, It is simple to setup and maintain. Plus the UI is really easy to understand.,"Polling period of the alerts are not short enough. The lowest is every 5 minutes but if a site is down, 5 minutes is too long to wait to see if it is down."

Capterra,William M.,VP of Engineering,4,DataDog is able to ingest and make sense of a complicated cloud application without the developer having to understand the infrastructure or program specifically for it.,That if I could afford it I would turn on all the features 24/7 and use them all.

Capterra,Keyur P.,IT Sr. System Engineer,4,"Log aggregation, Matrics and Dashboarding",APM is expensive feature withing Datadog.

Capterra,Nat T.,Sr Software Engineer,4,Datadog provides a single place to collect all our metrics/logs/traces and integrated ways to look at them.,"Some of the search is unintuitive, for example, it's sometimes hard to search traces. I miss Kusto for exploratory log analysis."

Capterra,Marcelo B.,Staff SRE,5,"Datadog is great for bootstrapping and it can get you quite far! Monitoring and alerting tooling is awesome, integrate well with the new products","Datadog is one of the few solutions I'm the market that provides all stack (logs, security, apm, infra ) and they know it. It is not cheap, when compared individually but looking at the big scope the integration is what we are paying for."

Capterra,Abbi D.,Software Engineer,4,"A lot of great features in logging, monitoring and APMA lot of great features in logging, monitoring and APM",Hard to weed through docs to get things set up

Capterra,Wanny M.,Director of Engineering,4,Easy to setup and good feature/functionalities set,"It is very very expensive, the bill can be huge without a lot of tuning and supervision"

Capterra,Mike F.,Designer,5,The range of integrations for the product allows us to pull every possible metric needed.,Does have a little bit of a learning curve but provides an excellent learning academy

Capterra,Bjorn v.,Lead Tester,4,The Synthetic testing is easy to setup and you have nice history. Also notifying to Slack or Teams is easy to setup.,Making your own dashboard is sometimes hard because of the huge metrics you can chooise of. Also you could drown a hole day of looking and searching through the data you have at hand.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,3,"Log management - easy to set up and hook up, also will consume custom feeds once linked in.",It wasn't as plug and play as I thought it was going to be. But I think the 'ideal' shopping list we had was not realistic for what the market is providing.

Capterra,Ola L.,Cloud Engineer/Seinor System Administrator,5,If you can afford it. Get Datadog.It's a phenomenal product that keeps getting better every day.Especially if you're using multiple clouds.There are tons of integrations that gives you out of the box dashboards and metrics. Logs are easy to ingest from basically everywhere.It's expensive but the pricing is easy to understand and keep track of.,"It's expensive, there is no other way to say it. But they work hard to make it worthwhile, and for us it is.Beyond that I can't really think of anything."

Capterra,Mohammad Rabiul I.,Freelancer,5,"From my opinion, with the most excellent features that Datadog has as user can track and take after logs in real time, something truly imperative to have within the case of extend is live. I usually like the idea of creating custom sees of sets of logs (with custom channels, information parsing and a parcel more) which user will share them together with the user group.","Setting it up for the first time, seems like is a little challenging which is not at all simple to use or understand all the capabilities that Datadog provides at first. Interface is challenging and occasionally a roadblock. Then, filters are not very helpful if user fields are not properly mapped."

Capterra,Shprotiv Paul S.,Executive,4,"It can help the user to track and monitor log, and that can help to run the project smoothly.","Its very much time consuming, and reporting system was not to the point, and integrations process is difficult"

Capterra,Dainius B.,SE and BUM for Baltics,5,"I like saas cloud approach, so i wont have to mangle with it, just register and it works","i could not see many cons, as i am light user, so i am happy of what i actually get"

Capterra,Amiril Rahmi F.,TPM,4,"We use Datadog mostly for our infra monitoring and log management. These features are very useful as they are real-time, helps to make sure our services are up and running, provide alerts whenever there's anomaly, and we can always trace back using their logs.","Pretty pricey and their UI is not easy to understand, first time user will need more time to adjust."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,good integrations with collectors. Open text search. Alerting systems. custom downtime for deployments.,Aggregation and APM metrics. More of alerting. New features to aggregate fields

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,we can trace the request from end to end. we can track application performance and visualize it at its perfection,"something it is difficult to read the reports and for beginners, it is not easy to set up although documentations are also not straightforward."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"Datadog is a very powerfull tools, it allows you to gatehered lot of differents metrics, and create very powerfull dashboard to monitor everything that append in your app (server side) but also to monitor your API or your network. it's a very powerful tool !","It can be a bit tricky at the beginning to setup your dashboard, there is a learning curve to understand how to implements everythings"

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,Setup is easy and is highly useful right from the get go,t can get expensive depending on the way it's used

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"Application performance monitoring, server and database monitoring, dashboards & reporting, proactive incident management",Sythentic queries are difficult to grasp. Need support for more geographies for application performance Monitoring

Capterra,Dikshyaraj B.,Infosystem engineer,5,"The best part about datadog is the user friendly the UI it has the graphs and metics are just perfect and doing analysis is also very fine ,with accordance to time frame. Log monitoring is the best.",error tracking and mangement is good but we need to set all the metrics else there is chance that downtime occured and we seeing afterwards.

Capterra,Sawan J.,Director of Infosec,5,"Fast, connected to everything that matters for a cloud first company",Dashboard customisation does not allow you to mute false positives needs a more simplified approach

Capterra,Will R.,Product Manager,4,Customizability. Able to get the views for my product analytics needs.,Can't really think of much! Maybe the onboarding/user guide materials could be more intuitive.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,I use this tool on a daily basis for handling errors both in our live environment and for testing. It allows me to see where an error may be coming from and follow it through to its source. I could not do my job effectively without datadog,The filtering of data is not as comprehensive as I would like. I sometimes need to search through the results to find what I need. Displaying a record in the chronological order is not always perfect and I sometimes don't get the context I want.

Capterra,Yaniv V.,"Director, QA & Processes",4,The searching and filtering capabilities where quite convenient,"The stability issues in the last year got more often than usual, which is quite problematic when you need access to you logs in real-time"

Capterra,Donovan G.,Head of QA,4,"It is brilliant in how it helps to detect flaws in your system, especially their ""AI"" parts which give intelligent indications on where to look. It also helps to keep everything you need to diagnose issues in 1 place. Making for a clear end to end vision.", It works out super expensive and the pricing is really hard to understand. Especially when it comes to K8s clusters.

Capterra,Uddipan M.,Senior Engineer,4,Datadog works great as a log aggregator. Useful features such as alerting and notification helps support teams to take quick actions. Dashboards help to visualize issue trends.,Datadog can improve on connecting custom metrics through an external database

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,Human Resources,5,Dashboards. Custom metrics. Ruby integration. Notebooks. Monitors & alerts.,It takes time to understand each part and understand how to use it. It's a complex thing and if you're not familiar with monitoring systems it could be difficult to figure it out how you can find what you need.

Capterra,Henry G.,SRE,4,I truly enjoy the integrations that datadog provides. It allows us to view more metrics that are more of a deep dive into specific applications. These metrics help us understand what is widely monitored in the industry that we did not think about monitoring ourself. Another key item is that datadog comes out of the box systematic checks that we normally had to add in manually for a newly onboarded host.,The item I dislike least is that when you decommission a host the application requires up to 24 hours for that host to officially disappear from the list rather than being removed immediately.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,It´s very useful to use it as TV Dashboards of Apps health. It allows you to use personalized counters for metrics you can set in your code. It' s great to see app performance during product launching.,"Theree's no mobile version of the app, would be very useful to carry those dashboards and monitors on your phone."

Capterra,Craig v.,Owner,3,"Looks like it should do the job, less log limits than other products.",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.
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"It has a great UI feature. It offers a variety of integrations with other third party software. Communication e-mail reports are valuable, even to non-users of the tool.",It can get very expensive to use and can be extremely complicated to use. There is a steep learning curve to try to get users up to speed with the needed functionality of the tool.
Capterra,Hassan H.,Cloud Security Analyst/Pen Tester,5,"The vast no of integration you can do with your cloud, whether its AWS Azure or Google, is phenomenal. The pre installed dashboards really help to set it up quickly. The notebook feature is quite useful too, if you are not ready to spend much on dashboards. Overall, nice all in one solution to capture logs from cloud and analyze them.","The metric creation process is not very easy. If you want to create metrics from logs, it gets more complicated."
Capterra,cauvery g.,Sr. QA Engineer,5,Its really good tool if you are searching or shopping for monitoring tools.,"I don't use it on daily basis, but so far no issues."
Capterra,Samantha R.,Customer Service Representative,5,I use DataDog a ton throughout my day to monitor customer service queues and it's amazing. Would not be able to do my job the same without the real time info and insights it offers.,So far nothing! I've thoroughly enjoyed using the software and have not experienced any significant issues.
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,The ability to filter and monitor data is definitely the highlight for me. The easy to setup dashboards as well as the built-in options are a huge plus. Integrations and monitoring/alerting options are also worth taking advantage of.,There's not much that I can complain about so far. There is a bit of a learning curve in understanding the toolset because there are lots of features to take advantage of.

Capterra,M. Serhat D.,Senior Software Engineer,5,"Rich features, well-documented functionality, easy to use UI, being able to create custom dashboards that can integrate with hundreds of tools.","Custom dashboard creation is a little bit tricky. There is a learning curve for building your dashboard in the beginning, but after spending a day or two - you can create dashboards as you always imagined."

Capterra,Satbyul K.,Staff,4,Really simple set up to monitor our full stack environment. Dashboard is very clear and suitable for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.,Nothing really. Migrating to any product can be challenging but setup was pretty simple and no key functionality absent.

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,We can quickly create customizable requests and filters to get all the data and organize it like we need. We can get a real overview of all are valuable data in a glance.,"Using Datadog can get pricy when you need many features or you have many hosts. However, its ease-of-use make it understandable."

Capterra,Ciprian P.,Senior PHP Developer,5,Great web monitoring tool if you have the time to dig into all the options and settings. The user interface is really professional and good looking and the charts and graphs are well thought out.,"It requires a bit of server tinkering, which I wasn't familiar with. Not really a minus."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"The log imports from AWS work really well and are much faster at searching than using AWS Cloudwatch. I find it easy day to day to search for items in logs, especially after implementing a few log transformers","initial setup gets a bit confusing sometimes, and it was easier to change the logging format of our code than to implement lots of parsers to make the log interpretation better"

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"Datadog provides a great, easy-to-use and extensible interface for displaying data out of your own systems, providing you the insight to sniff out issues as they arise.","No matter how many integrations Datadog builds in, there will always be gaps, and some of those gaps hit our needs. As such, we need to use several monitoring solutions to cover our whole platform."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5, I easily integrated the agent and the integration with AWS. With a few clicks you have everything online,"the creation of monitors is not so intuitive but you can figure it out. There are bugs in the documentation since they always refer to the "".com"" domain but if you are an european user they also have "".eu"" domains, I had to contact the support in order to have this problem solved."

Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"Feature-rich cloud monitoring solution which works across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc)",It takes a bit of time to get familiar with the admin portal user interface.

Capterra,Ankush K.,Engineer,5,"The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards. - Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval. - It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs. -","A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs. - UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps."

Capterra,Bryan I.,"VP, Digital Services",4,Datadog solves most of our needs for general system/application health monitoring and even covers some performance metrics that we use to make improvements.,Some of the detailed views of where bottlenecks are troubling a system can be lacking. Something we've seen a lag getting data refreshed in the dashboards.
Capterra,Javier C.,Production Engineer,5,The visibility is great and it allows us to keep a close eye on the performance of our infrastructure - we know in real time when something changes of is starting to slow down. We can track users or cohorts of users and identify any issues right away. We can also group those issues and track metrics over time to ensure that we are improving our metrics as a team.," It can take a while to figure out and because it holds a lot of data, the costs can add fairly quickly."
Capterra,Mauricio S.,Full Stack Engineer,5,"I think that the best features that Datadog has is that you can track and follow logs in real time, something really important to have if your project is live. I like the idea of creating custom views of sets of logs (with custom filters, data parsing and a lot more) and that you can share them with your team.","It is a bit complicated to set for the first time. Is not quite easy to use or know at first about all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky and can be a blocker sometimes. Following that, if your fields are not mapped in the right way, filters are not that useful."
Capterra,Rayla V.,Graduate Research Assistant,5,"Datadog is useful for visualizing and monitoring your cloud applications. If you have agents on you devices, it can analyze a ton of information coming in and show it to you, but that's where it ends, at least, as far as I could figure out in my free trial.","I was very hopeful of this software, but I didn't want to throw agents from a product I've never used before on my servers and instances, so I tried to upload a data pull ( about 500,000 log entries) to Datadog, to see what it could do, but there's no way to upload a csv/txt file to the software. It has to be via agents on your services. I know that metadata would be missing from a csv, but it seems like a major oversight to not be able to accept a csv of logs for a new user to experiment at low risk."
Capterra,Luis Miguel R.,Software Developer,4,User-friendly UI. * chart gives meaningful information. * It has real-time metrics.,"It is a great tool, it takes some technical skills to understand and configure the tool."
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"Datadog is probably one of the most notable analytics tool out there for large companies. It's easy to track users' flow in terms of what routes they're hitting, when they hit a snag and 404, or other metrics like how performant certain requests are which allows us to identify bottlenecks and get rid of them immediately.","There is a steep learning curve I will say with this software and needs an expert to help lead tutorials or sessions to get the ball rolling with new tool users. Although there are many built in functionalities and easily customizable features, it can be overwhelming and hard to pinpoint exactly what type of analytics you're looking for. It's one of those softwares where you have to play around with it to get the stars to align and find a model or metric that works best for your customers and use cases."
Capterra,Enrique M.,Software Developer,5,dashboards are super customizable and refreshing time is very quick - templates save you lot of time,building the queries for the dashboards require quite a lot of knowledge (not intuitive)
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,My admins helped set this up. Able to pull in data from whole tech stack,A bit difficult to use without any coding knowledge
Capterra,Charley C.,Owner,5,It helps us to monitor traffic on our website,I think the product does not have cons that I have discovered
Capterra,Damian N.,Chief Executive Officer,5,"It's got everything that's needed for infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting. It also fits extremely well into our Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm where everything we set up is kept in a git repository as a Terraform project. DataDog is what we recommend and implement for our clients, and provides more useful features than Sensu.","Metrics and monitors don't render correctly on mobile phones. It's totally unusable in portrait mode, and barely usable in landscape mode."
Capterra,Caroline S.,Software Engineer,4,"Datadog is a tool that I like for several reasons, because implementing it does not require technical knowledge, has a series of metrics that allow you to read whether the performance of applications or servers is appropriate or not, so if you find a failure or something out of the ordinary in these applications the user immediately receives alerts that notify him of this problem so that it can be resolved in the shortest possible time, these alerts being received at any time since Datadog works continuously 24/7 and the best thing is that it is a software that is very easy to use and implement, in addition to being extremely flexible because it allows you to choose the monitoring parameters that you want to apply.",Datadog is not a perfect tool because it has some drawbacks and is that the more applications are integrated with this software the performance or speed of information delivery tends to slow down which should not be since the integrations are to improve even more the performance of said tool.
Capterra,Neyda Jose M.,Software Developer,4,"This tool called Datadog I love mainly because it is really efficient and very useful because it allows through it you can carry out a monitoring of the performance of applications in a very simple way, being this through the reading of metrics that are really simple to understand and issue very detailed information that is useful to diagnose the cause and thus be able to solve the problem in the shortest time possible, also is available 24/7 so in case of any fault send immediately a mail informing the same and the best thing is that it has a clean interface, intuitive and easy to use without having technical knowledge to manage it.","One of its drawbacks is that when it is integrated with a large number of tools it can become heavy, which causes the information to be slowed down."
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,5,"For our AWS deployment, we use Datadog for application performance and server monitoring as well as synthetic HTTP tests . DataDog enables real-time information and measuring engineering-specific metrics and allows you to control how you trace and diagnose data. If you are looking to track the time it takes for a web hook to fire after an asynchronous request has been made, you can store the time the request has been sent in your database and when the webhook fires for that request, measure the delta and send it to DataDog. DataDog integrates with Slack, which allows for alerts on average and max thresholds.","Datadog has a mature product but features are limited, the tool feels dated and the UI is very plain."
Capterra,Christopher Kyle D.,QA Engineer,4,Customization for integrating software -Extreme level of analytical tracking -Alerts regarding errors -Excellent customer support,Large learning curve -More documentation needed
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,"Configuring monitoring tools is not always trivial, half of the battle is making sure metrics are flowing. Datadog is very flexible when it comes to sending metrics to their cloud. You can use collectD, statsd, file beats, or the 84523982 other options. Our orchestration software already had an option to enable Datadog collection. Once the data is in place, you need to figure out what metrics are relevant. Datadog has a number of pre-built dashboards tweaked for popular software systems. If you are using something homegrown, they can provide recommendations and optimizations after enough data has been ingested. API and documentation are top notch and we were able to build integrations quite easily.","Datadog is purely cloud-based system so there's no on-prem option, only SaaS. Depending on your company, this may be a deal-breaker since all of your metrics data is hosted in the cloud. Since it's a SaaS based service, it won't be easy to move data to another service. Occasionally web UI will bog down but it's fairly performant for the most part."
Capterra,Verified Reviewer,,4,Rich set of filters and plenty of graphs possible. You are only limited by your imagination. You think of some use case and Datadog mostly has it or you may get it in the very near future.,"Though super feature rich, not a very easy to learn. You need to get some tutorials otherwise you may miss a lot of important features. Plus I find the time range filters are little too strict, they should be more flexible IMO."
Capterra,Kevin V.,Software Architect,4,"Datadog has integrations with pretty much every main software service you can think of. It has pretty robust support for Windows machines and the custom metrics support is great, so you can track anything you'd like.","The usability could be improved in some areas, the custom dashboard features are powerful but the syntax can be hard to work with."
Capterra,Diego M.,VP Engineering,5,"The metrics navigator, you start by picking a metric or server, and it then tells you all the information it is collecting from it, so you can start designing your monitoring dashboards and see the data that will appear as you go","There are times where a chart would omit certain spikes, due to the way they aggregate values. But a quick email to support and they'll give you the settings you need to adjust not to miss such events, even when you look at a chart for the month"
Capterra,Gaurav Y.,Software Developer,5,"Datadog is very good for monitoring the applications and the host infrastructure. We have used it for lots of purpose for maintaining the infra like maintaining the kafka servers where we can plug this and can easily see the performance of kafka, it's offset value for different different consumers and lot more. Apart from this, we can also see the application performance with this.","Only one negative to say, it is difficult to start with this, writing the query to fetch the details and to do analysis is not easy. You need to learn it."
Capterra,Andrey P.,SQL Server DBA,4,Lots of pre-configured solution for different aspects of infrastructure and applications. Rich reporting capabilities,A bit too expansive for log analitics and basic monitoring solution. Creation of your own solutions is possible but very hard to learn for new users
Capterra,mohamed a.,L3 Support Engineer and Service Management,5," great tool for monitoring, and it support wide range of monitoring like infrastructure monitoring, cloud based monitoring, application monitoring and business service monitoring - Support wide range of integrations like the integration with HPE OMi","It's a great application for monitoring cloud based applications, the support takes sometime to resolve the reported issues"
G2.com,No name,,4,"Gives a graph of cpu utilization, memory over a range of days",Some notifications are hard to get for Amazon SQS
G2.com,No name,,5,Everything is easily and cost effectively aggregated into a single repository. Support staff is quite helpful.,"Version upgrades on all clients should be manageable from a central console. Instead, they rely on integration with Puppet and Chef. In my opinion, while using something like Puppet should certainly be an option, an enterprise product should include the ability to centrally manage endpoint agents."
G2.com,No name,,5,I love how easy it integrates with other tools. Any infrastructure we make in AWS will show up in Datadog with metrics to alert on. The dashboards are also very useful.,I dislike that the agent sometimes will take longer than expected to send metrics to Datadog.
G2.com,No name,,5,How easy it is to setup. DataDog's documentation along with their support chat make setup a breeze.,Sometimes you'll get a support representative that gives conflicting information. This is easily resolved by starting a new chat.
G2.com,No name,,5,How easy it is to setup. DataDog's documentation along with their support chat make setup a breeze.,Sometimes you'll get a support representative that gives conflicting information. This is easily resolved by starting a new chat.
G2.com,No name,,5,The ability to aggregate metrics to pull out outliers across a large group of processes/instances.,It's difficult to drill down from metrics to logs especially when looking at aggregate groups.

G2.com,No name,,4,"The visualizations, especially how it can differentiate between different services, API's, HTTP status codes, etc.",No official way of converting screenboard dashboards to timeboard dashboards and vice versa.

G2.com,No name,,0,"Their service is around giving you the option to pull data from your services, clusters, and infrastructure in one site. After you send all your data there you can create dashboards, and analyze the analytics. You are able to create alarms and with those, you would receive a notification when the threshold of the alarm is triggered.

They offer also many different integrations with third-party services, systems and products.",It is not easy to set up. You need to investigate a bit before setting up. It is worth it though. Another thing is the price. It is not the best in availability when you compare it with other options.

G2.com,Denis V,DBA,3.5,"Perfect monitoring tool.

You can monitor your infrastructure as on premise as in the cloud by monitoring performance counters of different applications and collecting information from logs.

You can monitor your infrastructure as in real time mode or just receiving alerts for example to email.

It allows you to use different ready solutions with predefined logic for to monitor even different software such as: SQL Server, MySQL and so on.

It can be integrated with different products such as slack, where you can receive different alerts and where slacks bot can perform setuped actions.

You can create different dashboards for your convenience.","No suitable for all cloud services, for example if you're going to monitor your infrastructure in Azure it would be better to use Azure's Log Analytics.

This solution is not for non-experienced users and required time to learn it . Features used in free price tiers very limited for example no alert capabilities."

G2.com,No name,,4,We like the software as it provides us a lot of value.,I think we can do better with the UI as it would make it way better.

G2.com,Maxim S,Devops Manager,4,"Datadog allows monitoring of everything you need without deploying additional hardware or utilizing storage in your datacenter. Most of your possible needs are covered by API marketplace, where you can find lots of solutions for different use cases. You have access to both current state of resources and history of this state, so you can analyze your issues in retrospective manner to find out what was going on that time. Monitoring of both availability and performance of your services by utilizing performance counters, log analytics and alerting on specific events. Great email and communications tools integration for notification purposes, allows to monitor your systems proactively and find possible issues before actual impact for your resources.","Complex APIs settings to get desired result. No off-line solutions and tools, cloud residence is cool and modern approach, but some systems can not be exposed to public internet because of security concerns, and local proxies can affect the speed of data transfer"

G2.com,"
Anatoly E.",Developer,5,"Datadog is cloud based solution, perfectly working with monitoring of your cloud deployments, wide range of different solutions on marketplace, good set of APIs, log analytics. You can not only see current state of your resources, but have a historical data for the same, so you can find the bottlenecks in your systems and get rid of these. If you will not find what you need on marketplace you can always develop your own solution and use it. Somebody told that it is very hard for new users, but it is not true, you just need to have some patience, when exploring the documentation. And you can always contact helpdesk, team if very responsible and will be able to help you finding appropriate solution for your needs",Not very good for Azure if you are going to use marketplace solutions. Most of these are made for AWS and you will have to make something similar by yourself.

G2.com,No name,,5,"The integration with Amazon. We can easily see our AWS performance, set up alerts, and easily respond to them.","It's really hard to think of anything we don't like. Rewriting all of our alerts was painful, but we'd get that switching to any other tool."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Easy to use, simple installation, great features which allow you to observe variety of metrics and extract critical observations about system performance. CPU monitoring is very useful. Creating graphs and metric customization is easy.","User interface is technical, not a naive user's playground. Learning the basics can be time-consuming at first."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"It's integrations with various tools and platforms, made my life easy to see all the metrics in one place","It's integrations with various tools and platforms, made my life easy to see all the metrics in one place"

G2.com,Vadim I,DBA,4,"A lot of features that are able to work out of a box, you just need to install agents and you are in. You can find much more special APIs on marketplace to extend basic functionality. Good analytics platform allows to find bottlenecks in your infrastructure and fix at proactive basis instead of reaction on incident. Does not requires additional resources on your infrastructure as Datadog is provided as a service. The only really working Docker container monitoring solution we were able to find",Installation and configuration can be painful for non-experienced users. Not very clear reporting capabilities. Most solution requires additional customization to be suitable for your needs. Not very straightforward pricing policy often makes users confusing about budget planning for Datadog

G2.com,Vitaly P,Cloud solution Architect,4,"Datadog is very flexible monitoring tool, perfectly fits the requirements of cloud solutions monitoring. It has a great set of embedded solutions as well as great API marketplace, where you can find almost everithing you need to set up for your environment. It also allows building you custom solutions for fine tuning according to your needs. Datadog can collect logs and performance counters information, for alerting and analysis. You can move any dashboard back in time to see the condition of your infrastructure and dynamics of changes.","Starting your work with Datadog in a pain. It`s has a complex query language and too much different settings, so you will have to contact helpdesk and read a tons of documentation to get it doing what you need"

G2.com,No name,,4,"Data dog does a great job of providing a ""single pane of glass"" consolidated dashboard view of of our live applications and giving us a single go-to source of truth for performance monitoring.",The UI can be slow to load at times and is not 100% intuitive when setting up.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,It’s very user friendly interface is something I liked a lot,Customer service when I have issues is rather unhelpful usually

G2.com,No name,,4,Integrations and quick follow up from Datadog team.,The features you get by subscribing to the higher tiers. But haven't used is for long.

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"The monitoring, visualizations and aggregation with our aws integration worked out pretty well for us.","The license is quite expensive, could have been better for Azure integration and features."

G2.com,No name,,1.5,"Easy to get going, performs a simple task well.","It's very easy to drive up the bill to ridiculous amounts.

* The pricing model does not scale with enterprise.

* Recently, an engineer accidentally left an ephemeral port attached to an IP address in the stream. This increased our bill by $10,000 per-month."

G2.com,No name,,4,The ability to integrate with almost all of the cloud services is the best thing I like about datadog. Having used it for almost 7-8 months I found out that you can configure logs for even the smallest of unexpected behaviours in datadog,Would've appreciated if they offered a free plan with limited functionality for early-stage startups. Currently they only have a 14days trial period
G2.com,Jacob A,,3.5,"Dashboards make it easy to visualize different types of data, trends. Has powerful customization features for the data, as well as powerful filtering techniques. Easy to monitor for issues, trends, overall stats.",Searching for dashboards could be a little easier
G2.com,Gleb M,System engineer,5,"Log analytics work perfectly, great APIs, performance management tools, informative dashboards and customization options. Datadog has a lot of pre-built solutions that you can implement in your infrastructure and if you will not find suitable solution you can build your own, great for AWS monitoring. Good customer support and documentation","Lack of Azure monitoring tools, Datadog is very complex in building your own solutions. A bit too expensive for it`s functionality"
G2.com,Alon N,Sr.Fillstack developer,4,"Monitoring based on thresholds, moving averages, anomalies detection. Also basic server integration works ""from the box"". Also product moves forward all the time with new integrations, and features.",Disk space integration isn't working completely as expected. also per process monitor needs more love. Didn't try APM yet since my current stack isn't supported

G2.com,No name,,4.5,Love their integration with almost all popular frameworks out there. Can get started in just one line agent installation. Looked into their Log management solution which is also great!,"Alas, they are not PCI compliant therefore exporting logs to them becomes a challenge as it comes under purview of PCI."

G2.com,Daniel E,Sr.DBA,5,"Datadog is cloud based, so you don`t have to set up additional monitoring stations and can collect your data offsite. Great choice of APIs allows you to quickly set up monitoring to almost everything you may need, you can monitor availability and performance of your resources, collect different logs and set up alerting for critical events to be able to react quickly when these happens.",A bit expensive just for log analytics and metric monitoring

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Really valuable third party analytics software, allows me to save time by tracking useful metrics and see what's happening in real time.","Not too intuitive at first, takes some time to understand the metrics."

G2.com,Andrey G,Network Security engineer,"2,5","A lot of features of monitoring different aspects of your infrastructure, can monitor server parameters and most of widely used software. Good capabilities for AWS workloads monitoring","Agent based, it is not always possible to deploy agent per security concerns. Very limited Azure support, just basic services. Very hard for new users, which is not a good way to start working with solution. A bit expensive just for log analytics"

G2.com,Mario S,PM,4,Datadog permite el diseño sencillo y cómodo de dashboards con los que definir tus estadísticas y datos maestros de la aplicación.,En algunos casos es un poco lento o presenta errores de lectura.

G2.com,sharon L,,4,I really enjoyed how the documentation for Datadog really allowed anyone to start using their services.,"It was pretty confusing setting up the software at first, since the UI isn't entirely intuitive."

G2.com,Mitchell B,Sr web developer,4,It's incredibly easy to use from a developer's standpoint and provides very versatile dashboards to be used by analytics and product,"It gets really disorderly, very quickly. A better way to organize dashboards would be welcome."

G2.com,Brian R,IT sepcialist,5,The ability to clearly see stats about company applications,Some items are hard to find and take more clicks than expected to reach

G2.com,Timur z,Web software developer,4,"Datadog is very stable and has a lot of preconfigured solutions for AWS services. Very flexible configuration options, very good support and always the lates documentation available for users.","Datadog is very hard for new users, even great work of support team, does not makes your first steps easy"

G2.com,"
Juan Camilo M.",Scrum Master - Agile Practitioner,4.5,"They thought out the product very well.

The UI is easy to use and understand, setting up dashboards and editing them is super easy for anyone technical or not.

The alerts are quite useful and powerful.

The possibilities are endless of what you can measure and how you can take advantage of.","Sometimes it can be easy to run into decision paralysis. There is so much that can be done with it that is hard to know where to start and what to measure.

Recently they have been puting out more blog posts and suggestions on industry standards and best practices, which is a great way to address this (if you keep up with their blog) otherwise it would be great to have this in-app."

G2.com,"
Andre M.",RFID Manager,3.5,"Datadog gives companies the ability to bringing together data from servers, databases, tools, and services to present a unified view of an entire stack","Data dog does offer a free service but it limits you to one day of retention, five hosts, and no alert capability"

G2.com,No name,,5,"Very easy to monitor the cloud servers

Track any kind of servers with the proper alerts

Best dash board support. that will help to get the gist in the very less time

Able to get the metrics

Helps to monitor the whole infrastructure just from one place","Needs training to understand and use the software

Otherwise there are no complaints"

G2.com,Ameya K,Program analyst,4.5,"Its super easy to setup and start monitoring your system/clusters. The Infrastructure Host map and dashboards are impressive and give a quick overview of your ""Health Dashboard"" to be able to diagnose the issue with a server/cluster and quickly fix it. The ""Events"" tab gives a quick overview of all the ""state"" changes that occurred during the given time - period so that we have a time series trend to look at. Also the priority of an event can be changed/raised to be able to quickly take an action.",Setting up Monitoring/Alerts is a bit non - intuitive to begin with. It takes a bit of understanding to be able to configure the alerts

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"Well integrated with other relevant cloud services, especially with Amazon Web Services. Graphs are sophisticated in a good way. Initially was talking to the salesperson who had a technical background and that helped moving the needle. Has a strong brand so we weren't worried about data becoming available to the untrusted entity.","They have functionality that goes far behind graphs and analytics and probably this is where it failed for our team. Sysops couldn't easily figure it out, so there was some cultural push back. The user interface is somewhat special, probably too techie, raising adoption bar quite high."

G2.com,Prashant K,Consultant,5,Datadog can be easily integrated with many tools like slack etc.,can not say anything write now about dislike of datadog.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"At other places I've worked, we had to rely on different types of infrastructure -- Datadog does all that. Its very time saving. Datadog has alerting events and metrics all in one place; This was a huge plus, other solutions were trying to treat monitoring as a multi-faceted problem. Datadog treated it as one problem. Also, We no longer use Nagios for alerting, we use Datadog’s alarms, and then we push the data into PagerDuty.","The performance, especially when were drilling into metrics we've been running for a year and a half. When you're launching old data it can get slow. Also, more granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"Reliable, easy to integrate, supports all important types of monitors and events, fast UI.","When used extensively the tool contains quite a complex set of data and to understand the data properly a better user-friendlier GUI is required. My main concern is with graph presentations, time and again some alert is raised and there are multiple graphs that are presented but it is hard to understand what is the difference and sometime (due to the default selection of scale) the graph is all green despite the alert."

G2.com,No name,,4,"Dashboards,Metrics, APIs, Connectors and Graphs","Nothing as such , just the naming convention of metrics should be enforced."

G2.com,"
Vasiliy P.",Network security engineer,5,Lots of pre-configured features to monitor different parts on your infrastructure on-premises and cloud based. Very good AWS experience. Very easy server registration,"Very complex for new users, you need to work a lot of time with support. Poor Azure monitoring tools"

G2.com,Kirill B,Application system engineer,4,"Fully cloud system, no new virtual machines, just install agent and server is under monitoring","A lot of complex scripting required to get what you need, takes a lot of time"

G2.com,No name,,4,Datadog offers very powerful observability for your applications and has many built in integrations with existing apps and services. The graphs are powerful and tagging feature on graphs are extremely useful.,Datadog has outages than are a result of delayed ingestion. When the data in delayed false alerts begin to fire and and cause our company to pull the cord and hault deploys until they are back online.

G2.com,No name,,5,"easy to install agent, have a lot of templaites .. easy to abapt to our enviroment.. flexible",not to cool for microservisec.. like container.. docker etc

G2.com,Nils K,Principal cosultant,4,"Very easy and quick to set up. And very flexible on how to interpret, and massage, the incoming metrics.",Setting up the various views can be a little less than intuitive.

G2.com,No name,,3.5,Security on this program is great! Easy behind the scenes,Takes a little getting use to with interfaces

G2.com,Prashant K,Consultant engineering,4.5,the way it visualise data. is very impressive.,I like most of part of datadog one part i don't like that is cost.

G2.com,Rahul N,Sr Engineer,4,really like the real-time monitoring aspect with the analysis and development chops to get the most out of the data being captured.,Agent installation and configuration is a little painful. Classic reporting capability is nonexistent. No custom query language.

G2.com,Ivan R,SQL server developer,4.5,"Cloud based solution, you do not need to set up monitoring stations in your on-premises insfrastructure. Good set of monitoring tools, great dashboards","For those who concerned in security aspests, it can be strange to keep you monitoring data and history somewhere in cloud."

G2.com,Vlad D,window system admistrator,4,"Integration with a lot of products and services, AWS monitoring is good enough","Monitoring of Azure resources is weak, all solutions requires agent deployment, so for SaaS/PaaS services you need to deploy additional VM just for agent"

G2.com,No name,,4,Easy to visualize data. Interactive and lite.,Can be too overwhelming or complex for new users.

G2.com,Adam B,Sr Web Developer,4,"Datadog’s integrated solution for monitoring applications, services, and servers makes it easy to spot and troubleshoot problems early.",The setup and configuration of Dashboards and Monitors could be easier.

G2.com,adrew T,Sr Engineering manager,4,"Easy to setup and use in the code, a couple lines code calling Datadog library you would be able to use it as a fairly scalable and handy counter service

- Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters

- Has built-in alerting/notification functionality which can also be configured from the UI"," Nothing in particular, but one thing is, the more data you have, the slower response Datadog service will become, when you query the service, query a specific counter, as well as when the counter contains high dimensional data, which is normal, we haven't yet tested what is the upper limit for how much data it can decently handle, but it should be enough for small to mid size company"

G2.com,Dhara P,Sr Manager BI,5,"easy to use and create dashboards, lost of integrations with other applications in your IT stack. provides real time visibility and alerting for your services.",There is not much that I don't like about the product. But it is a little pricey. Also it is not very mobile friendly and some learning curve is required when you get started.
G2.com,Boris P,system administrator,4,"Resides in Cloud, you don`t need to add anything to your datacenter

Windows, Linux OS minitoring

SQL Server monitoring",Complex configuration and not very good customization
G2.com,Fedor F,Sr. system architect,4.5,"Good possibilities for AWS resources monitoring, integration with most of software used in our company","Azure monitoring still needs some work, you can monitor VMs but Cloud services fmonitoring features are still not enough"
G2.com,chris H,Test engineering manaer,4.5,I like how easy it is to add metrics to a dashboard for meaningful data visualization,I don't really have much to say here. It does what it needs to do.

G2.com,andrey P,Sr SQL Server DBA,5,"Pre-built solution for SQL Server is excellent, allows collect data from logs and performance counters, set up appropriate alerts and view analytical dashboards","Initial set-up is a bit complex, documentation could be more detailed"

G2.com,Victor V,system engineer,5,"Datadog is cloud based solution, so you do not need to deploy additional resources in your datacenter for it.",I still have some concerns about how secure is keeping your data outside of organization

G2.com,Igor R,UI engineer,4,It's way easier for monitoring several scaled apps.,"Sometimes it's a bit confusing to create a dashboard. As a developer, it's a kind difficult to understand several DevOps knowledge."
G2.com,No name,,2.5,"Datadog organizes reports in a clear way. Integration with Airflow is also very useful, since that's what handles all of out production jobs.",Comparing custom metrics is limited right now. Improving flexibility in the future would be nice.
G2.com,No name,,4.5,I love how easy it is to put together a nice looking dashboard with the integrated data feeds,There are data points in integrations I'd like to be able to be able to use on a screenboard that I just can't get to (like metrics from GitHub)
G2.com,Damitry P,SSE,4,"VERY flexible, you can track pretty much any metric

* Sources data from the standard statsd

* Dashboard functionality

* Easy sharing of dashboards

* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.","The datadog agent eats a bit too much memory

* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.

* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues

* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen."
G2.com,No name,,3.5,Graphs monitoring and alerting. We monitor application metrics and get alerts when they are our of trend,"UI is so-so, APM is not good enough and expesive"
G2.com,Jeff D,Software eng Manager,4.5,"Great pricing lets you scale up from nothing to a fair price for a large product.

Stupid easy to get setup with AWS.

Good docs for more complex things like Docker/ECS.","Graph JSON language can feel rough around the edges.

Time scales can be confusing or accidentally smooth out important features.

Charting options sometimes feel limited.

Texting alerts required custom Twilio setup."
G2.com,No name,,5,"Infrastructure Host Map

-Anomaly Detection Monitors

-Outlier detection

-Vast number of integration points",Nothing to dislike. This tool meets most of my demands. I'm really satisfied with the feature set

G2.com,No name,,4,Visualization of performance for webapps,"User interface is a bit confusing, hard to know how to phrase things the first time."

G2.com,No name,,4,It makes finding relevant data to what's going on in a system super easy. Diagnosing problems is a breeze.,The learning curve is a little too steep.
G2.com,No name,,4.5,It shows me how the performance of my database queries,I would like to be able to create my own filter to show my queries
G2.com,No name,,4,"Love their dashboard functionality. The APIs and interactions are very good,. The built in notification functionality is good",Sometimes the datadog service is slow. No flaws other than that.
G2.com,No name,,4.5,Very easy to install and get running on Ubuntu servers,"APM product is really new, and definitely not on par with what New Relic has to offer."
G2.com,No name,,5,The dashboards could look better also the graophs,"monitoring and different filtering options, apis for writing data."
G2.com,No name,,4,Seamless integration with slack and insight into metrics,"Nothing that I can think of, liked using the product"
G2.com,No name,,3.5,We love Datadog. It is a great way to consume metrics from aws and alert on them and build dashboards.,"The pricing model per server is very odd. In modern cloud environments, servers are usually cattle. We see the value in datadog's ""free"" statsd collection and data processing."
G2.com,No name,,4,"I started to use datadog due to a stand on europython, and it's really easy to setup",Pricing is too heavy with docker containers
G2.com,No name,,4.5,we were using datadog software for monitoring purpose for doing a health check of all the services instances running on the cloud. It gave us a good exposure and notified us in a QuickTime for any failures!,"Based on my knowledge, sending a notification on email having a delay than the runtime text notification. We relied on texts to get a quick update on any failures."
G2.com,"
Vinicios W.",Diretor de assuntos academicos,4,"Easy to use, robust, easy to write your own plugins, insane solid API, great documentation, awesome customer support, works nice with automation tools, nice UI, most integration application compatibility","Very expensive, need some carefull with AWS integrations"
G2.com,No name,,3.5,I find that its very easy to log errors and other metrics to Datadog but trying to view that data is not as easy.,It's hard to find the data you're looking for.
G2.com,No name,,3.5,great visualization and intuitive interface,not enough customization capabilities for my needs to monitor several disparate data stores.
G2.com,No name,,4,"Many features like Dashboard customisations, managing monitors, events, alerts . and also Datadog has an easy integration through his API",Metrics infrastructures needs more improvements in term of functionalities
G2.com,No name,,5,The fact that it has out-of-the-box integrations with a wide variety of platforms,Difficult to understand and configure complex alerting rules
G2.com,No name,,4,The data visualization features and API integrations are fantastic. The product is also incredibly easy to use and,"Sometimes it's clunky to create the exact filters for data you're looking for, but overall I don't have much to complain about."
G2.com,No name,,3.5,Sending metrics in statsd is pretty simple and straightforward. Datadog does a great job reliably parsing tags and helps get to the root cause of any problem easily,Not much really. Datadog is pretty good at what it does
G2.com,No name,,4.5,industry standard for monitoring. great in providing whollistic view of things and very customizable.,no out-of-box dashboards or suggested monitoring tactics / screens. theres a steep learning curve and overhead in managing
G2.com,"
Alexandre C.",Sr. Go engineer,4,"It is really easy to setup, the UI is clean and very user-friendly. If you have been using a StatsD / Grafana setup you will be delighted by the ease of use.

You can also set alerts that are triggered when a metric reach a certain value which is really useful.

There are also lots of plugins to automatically fetch metrics from databases, message queues, CPU, etc.

Setting up all these services on you own would be very time-consuming.","Once we migrated all our servers to an other host. Due to the migration, we ended up paying twice the price for two or three month as we forgot to disable the Datadog agents on our old servers.

So be careful and ask for information if you are hosting your applications on cloud servers and are using lots of short-time instances, it might be very expensive.

Also the documentation states that only 100 metrics are allowed per host, which can be very low depending on the type and number of applications running on your hosts.

In practice, we where sending more than 100 metrics per host and did not have any issues.

The UI is very good. The only thing was that it was not very convenient to change the scale of the vertical axis of a graph."
G2.com,Moisés Gabriel C.,,3,"A very flexible monitor, you can track a lot of things (there are more than 100 possible integrations)

* Also a server health checker.

* Unbeatable custom dashboard creator: you can basically mix everything you want to track into a single dashboard without problems.

* Custom tracking stats: With it's powerful event-tracking API you can build your own statistics and gauges so you can measure what you really want to.","Steep learning curve: As powerful as it sounds, requires some level of skill to understand every aspect of the service and get the exact measurements you want. Datadog is huge.

* Some prebuilt alers were not working: this is a very subjective subject (hehe) since I might be caused this problem, I didn't give it enough research time.

* Partial service integration: Sure there are 100+ services to integrate with, but some of them only shows basic and somewhat trivial statistics, not so useful at first so you need to learn and implement your own statistics."
G2.com,No name,,4.5,I like that Datadog makes it extremely easy to visualize the amount of data that my app is using and the metrics that it employs along with the visualizations to keep you appraised of how the app is doing in terms of latency is also very helpful.,"I don't dislike anything about it yet, so far it has been everything I need it to be and then some."
G2.com,Stewart H.,Principal engineer,3.5,The ease of setting up was what I appreciated the most. It was easy to setup with our automated deployment tools as well (Chef).,"It is very hard to use the freemium version of the tool without dodging countless sales people. Additionally, they shut-off your free account after so many days and force you yo speak to a sales person before you can get it enabled. Update: It also appears now there is a plan downgrade option to circumvent the call to sales. This was the biggest turn off to my evaluation of it. The other note here, is that we were looking for a self-hosted option due to security concerns. At the time, this was available with them but perhaps it has changed by now."
G2.com,Andrew D,Web developer,4,"The available integrations are amazing and really easy to setup. Creating a dashboard to share with your team so you can see instantly see how things are perform (even without having to log in). Also, the dashboards look great on a large TV screen.","Writing your own integrations isn't difficult but is time consuming. Sometimes it takes awhile to come up with the right formula for a widget that displays the information you want.

It'd be nice if there was a better way to look at data/dashboards on a mobile device."
G2.com,No name,,4,"Easy to configure and report to. Also, very easy to set up dashboards and see visualisation of data.",Slow real-time updating of visualisation. There's at least a 20 sec lag between reporting of a metric and updating the graph/metric count on the dashboard.

G2.com,Christophe N.,Technical Team Lead (API),4,Simple dashboards are really easy to setup but also powerful. We're able to easily monitor many parts of our infrastructure with a few easy integrations using already built Datadog agents. Alerting is also great and easy to setup for simple use cases,The minute you get into more complicated scenarios the language used to write more complicated queries the documentation is not so great. From my personal experience I've quite a bit of trouble finding documentation even on functions like `rollup` I end up using quite often.

G2.com,No name,,3.5,I do like the easy to use interface and how simple it is to just get started.,"Im so used to google analytics, its really just a simple js insert and you're done. Data dog is a bit different."

G2.com,"
João F.",Head of software engineer,"4,5","The ability to get up and running in moments was a key element in choosing the service, as well as the ability to have the system dynamically adapt graphs and alerts based on other criteria than hostnames, such as aggregating counts across datacenters, system types, or any other arbitrary dimension that made sense to our team.",One negative mentioned was if you already have your apps instrumented with statsd then there is a little catching up to be done.

G2.com,Clément N.,Head of marketing,3.5,"Datadog has a nice UX. It's easy to pick up integration and start a configuration for your apps or services. Also, the support is really cool: you got an email on a regular basis from the Datadog team checking up if everything is ok. This is the kind of proactive support I like.","During my trial, the web interface evolved completely. There was no new on-boarding, which was pretty confusing to me."

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"I like that all of the data is collected into one place and easily searched, tagged, and commented on. As a less-informed user of some of the more down-to-the-metal services, it's easy to visualize each service and its health. The social-like feed of events is also helpful to see what's happening in your system, and in what order.

Custom dashboards are also nice to see the systems you interact with most.",Sometimes there is an overwhelming amount of information to search through in order to start using the product.

G2.com,Oded S.,CTO/country head,3.5,The dashboard and metrics are pretty ok.,"Agent installation is kind of a overhead. Unlike newrelic which integrates very easily as part of the deployment itself, here we need to install stuff manually / per machine. Moreover the agent file is huge.

The installation didn't went smooth for the first time.

Each integration should be done specifically. There is not single point of installation. too much hassle."

G2.com,No name,,3.5,"The daily digest emails

- The quick systems overview

- Database performance overview", Inability to get more context for a particular event to drill down into.

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Jaime L. R.",Associate Attorney,5,I like the ability to create my own dashboard so as to monitor what I think is important at the same time,It seems to run a little slower than some other similar programs although not so much as to be a problem

G2.com,No name,,4,The train and user interface is relatively simple and easy to use. Integration is also just a drop in. The daemon is relatively lightweight,"It's hard to convince people to use it over New Relic, but that's a simple matter of brand recognition. The dashboards could be more customizable."

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Christian Nahuel P.",Software engineer,5,"Perfect real time dashboards to checkout traffic metrics, server status, and hardware performance.",It's very complex for new users. There is too much information and the UX is not perfect.

G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Datadog provide many different integrations ""out of the box"", and it is easy to create custom ones using the API.",The website could be more mobile/tablet friendly. It would also be great if there was a mobile app for monitoring metrics and alerts while on the road.

G2.com,Kevin V,Software Architect,5,"Datadog's Windows support is fantastic, the Windows agent supports detailed IIS and MSSQL statisticsas well as WMI support for complete customizability for any metrics that may be missing. Their RabbitMQ support is excellent as well - we routinely look at the queue dashboard to see what is processing in our system. Customizable dashboards are very useful, we have a dashboard that we jump to in the case of any production problem.",The User Interface generally is excellent but configuring dashboards can be tricky at times. Some elements have autocomplete and dropdowns but others require typing in fields from memory.

G2.com,No name,,4,all the integrations are great - even turned me on to new services we could use,"The linux service is a pain to use, always having to check the manual for how to do anything, even like what its called."

G2.com,No name,,4,"easy to use cloud based web app, pretty simple integration into your environment, most of the basic postgres metrics are obtained","cloud based only, wished it ran on-premise"

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Denish P.",Sr Database architect,2,"Easy to setup with AWS instances

good documentation",Datadog doesn't provide on-premise solution
G2.com,No name,,5,"The cluster visualization is amazing ! Easy to integrate with Amazon Web Services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( EC2 ) , Amazon Simple Storage Service ( S3 ) , Amazon Relational Database Service ( RDS ) , Amazon RedShift , etc .","I did not have any big problems with the Datadog . Easy to set up , easy to use ."
G2.com,No name,,4.5,"Multi platform support

Easy to use GUI

Customizable dashboard",Command line installation on windows is cumbersome
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Michelle W.",Business Leader & co-founder,5,Streamlines metrics into one place. My CIO LOVES this solution!,Nothing really. It has helped us as we start the business.