Datadog Customer Reviews 2025 | SoftwareReviews

Datadog

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

7.9 /10

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What is Datadog?

Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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Awards & Recognition

Datadog won the following awards in the AIOps category

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2 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2022

Datadog Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

92 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Datadog?

2% Negative

10% Neutral

88% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Acts with Integrity
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Security Operations Automation

Analyze Activity Data

Operational Task Automation

Data Visualization

Event & Alert Management Automation

Machine Learning

Incident Management Automation

Explainable and Trainable Algorithms

Performance & Capacity Management Automation

Analyze Discovery Data

Problem Management Automation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Score 8.4

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Score 8.2

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Application Performance Management - Enterprise

Score 8.1

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IoT Management

Score 7.9

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Datadog Reviews

Mayara G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

"Take cares of my environment like a boss!"

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

The big picture provided is pretty better than other that I've tried before

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The power you get during query alert creation

What do you dislike most about this product?

PRICE. Sometimes it's hard to show the business team why do we need DataDog

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Look for training tools and team, cause you'll need to use all the features provided

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Erlon S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

The best monitoring, but prepare your wallet.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog congregates all monitoring levels in just one tool. We have log management, metrics and APM being able to correlate events.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

How complete it is providing everything we need to monitor our applications.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Absolutely its price. I know it is an amazing product, but it is not feasible for most of companies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Be aware with logging management through it. If you don't take care, you can easily burn all your annual budget in one week.

Pros

Respectful
Unique Features
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Cons

Vendor's Interest First
Less Generous

Justin G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

Getting to the bones of the logs separates this

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

It is a simpler tool than say LogEntries, which required a more convoluted way to find logs and export options were horrible. Data dog has quick key word searches to help get us to the errors fast.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Quick search feature

What do you dislike most about this product?

It doesn't allow for the keywords use only for the search

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say that this is one of the better solutions for log tracking Saas software.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Datadog Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

92 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Datadog?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Security Operations Automation Automate security operations e.g. threat and vulnerability management, compliance management, security incident and event management.

Analyze Activity Data Analyze activity data e.g. event logs, tickets, network packets.

Operational Task Automation Execute operational tasks in response to commands, requests, incidents or alerts with minimal or no human supervision.

Data Visualization Visualize customer data in configurable dashboards or reports, and easily share these visualizations with decision makers.

Event & Alert Management Automation Automate event & alert management tasks e.g. manage alert thresholds, notify operator of a possible SLA breach.

Machine Learning Generate insights using machine learning algorithms e.g. event prediction, anomaly detection, sentiment analysis.

Incident Management Automation Automate tasks such as incident tracking, assessment, prioritization, impact suggestion, prediction of potential incidents, and self resolution.

Explainable and Trainable Algorithms Decisions and actions generated by the tool can be reviewed, and adjustments can be made to decision-making algorithms to improve results.

Performance & Capacity Management Automation Algorithms automate performance & capacity management tasks e.g. identify workloads nearing capacity limits, identify bottlenecks and possible remediation.

Analyze Discovery Data Analyze data on the design of components in the IT environment e.g. dependencies, endpoints, licenses, asset data, workflows, and configuration data.

Problem Management Automation Automate problem management tasks e.g. identify related incidents, create problem tickets, suggest root cause.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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Systems Management

Network Monitoring - Enterprise

Application Performance Management - Enterprise

IoT Management

Datadog Reviews

Mayara G.

"Take cares of my environment like a boss!"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Erlon S.

The best monitoring, but prepare your wallet.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Justin G.

Getting to the bones of the logs separates this

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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