Datadog Reviews & Product Details

Their marketing is very strong. As I was choosing between Grafana vs Datadog, I believed datadog can solve my problems quicker and I am willing to pay more for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1 months into datadog, my decision of choosing Datadog over Grafana is already biting me. None of my expectations were materialized

1. Datadog was not quicker to set up; there are less support docs/examples comparing to Grafana.

2. Datadog's support team are all about being "nice" instead of making real progress. Very inefficient.

3. When you are stuck, their support will remind you of the "switching cost" instead of solving real problems for you. Very distasteful.

4. I invested in a closed platform instead of an open source stack where I have a much easier time to extend and switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Is a tool that provides many services like infrastructure monitoring, logging, database monitoring, etc. The great about this is that all services are interconnected, so when a problem ocuurs in your systems you can configure Datadog to have end 2 end visibility of your platform, helping the engineers to debug and find problems easy and fast enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the ui is very overwhelming, specially at the beginning, so many buttons and features makes the platform very complex to use, so the leraning curve is a bit hard at the beginnning, once you learn to use it is really simple and intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have deployed Datadog for our all cloud deployments in AWS cloud. A large number of integrations allow us to literally monitor everything. From AWS cloud infra to hosted compute whether it be physical, virtual or serverless. We are using Datadog to monitor our endpoints and UI testing of the applications through synthetic tests.

Deployment is super easy and quick with highly skilled support team. Datadog is one of the most frequenctly used tool in our organization and its been great. Documentation is very detailed and has improved over time allowing us to setup everything without major hurdles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features are limited when compared to compatitors. We used to monitor the infra through NewRelic which offered more visibility into the running processes but Datadog is limited when it comes to manual process monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ecosystem and integration!

Effective communication between different Datadog products, such as APM and Infrastructure, shows detailed traces that I can drill down into to pinpoint the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a need for more improvements and features in the Datadog security lineup. A centralized SCA and SAST is lacking. Additionally, easier integration with MS Teams and other third-party software is necessary.

Flutter support in Real User Monitoring (it is not fully supported yet). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Datadog is its comprehensive monitoring capabilities across multiple environments and services, especially in cloud-based infrastructures. The platform makes it easy to monitor everything in one place, from application performance and infrastructure health to logs and security. The real-time dashboards are highly customizable, allowing us to drill down into specific metrics and get a clear overview of our entire stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As our usage grows and we monitor more hosts and services, processing costs also increase. There is a learning curve involved in creating custom queries within the log management interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user experience of DataDog is amazing. The granuality and flexibility of filters and charts makes it easy to quickly sift through large amounts of data and find what you need. This is especially useful when trying to quickly troubleshoot an incidents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One annoying thing about DataDog is working with IoC configurations that are defined in Terraform.

It's tough to make changes to your configurations because you need to deploy them in order to see if you did it correctly. It's also not possible to lock down resources defined with IoC, so sometimes people will edit something via the web UI that was conficuged in Terraform and then their changes will get reverted when Terraform re-deploys and they won't know why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the most thing being liked about datadog is the detailed information of the the track of the application, its request/response, error/log traces, complete api information with integration of the application servers, databases making sure the application remaining up and running throught the business working hours without any intereptions.

The complete visibility of the error traces makes it easy to track down any issues reported and thus making its fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When integrating the application its servers the database the cost is quite high. also when it comes to large applciation wiht heavy database it is tough to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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

I like that the gui is user friendly, theres alot about datadog that is easy to use. The search bar is pretty helpful when looking fro items, theres alot that can br brought into datadog. New features always available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation on setting things up i feel like is a little hard to understand. Sometomes we figure out that we need an upgrade to use the next feature but the docs dont necessarily say that. Theres alot that chnages from one version to the next it would be nice for there to be a guide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

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

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