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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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90 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
93 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+97 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?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Score 8.3
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Score 8.2
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Datadog Reviews

Prashant D.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2025
All-in-One Observability with Excellent Dashboards
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog stands out with its fully unified observability platform—combining metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and security in one UI. Its broad out-of-the-box integrations (600+), real-time dashboards, and AI-powered alerts make it a go-to for full-stack visibility without needing to stitch together multiple tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Datadog is its seamless integration across the entire tech stack, providing real-time, correlated insights from infrastructure to applications in a single, easy-to-use platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The biggest downside of Datadog is its complex and often expensive pricing model, which can quickly escalate as you add more hosts, containers, and features, making budgeting challenging for growing teams.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If considering Datadog, start small to control costs and focus on essential monitoring. Leverage its rich integrations for quick setup, but plan ahead for scaling expenses. Customize alerts and dashboards to maximize actionable insights and reduce noise.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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shivaling p.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Modern observability tool for modern apps!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
It has support for a wide variety of industries like healthcare, education and technology which makes its impact area large.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
my favourite aspect is that it enables and supports modern methodologies like devops and devsecops.
What do you dislike most about this product?
what i dislike is it has support for minimum number if public cloud providers which leaves out a large number of potential adopters.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
i would recommend this for mission critical applications which have a modern observability stack in place.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Generous Negotitation
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
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Prashanth R.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Fantastic product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
An easy-to-use interface lets us see everything on a huge screen in real-time. Since it has improved our program application to the point where it analyses our technology in the production process in real-time
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Custom APM spans
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its kind of hard to figure out what all is in the Splunk instance
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
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