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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Datadog Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

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.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

93 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.

+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?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Managed Service Model

100

Data Management

91

Security

91

High Availability

89

Performance

89

Interoperability & Integration

89

Device Management

87

Edge Processing

86

Machine Learning

84

IoT Application Development

83

Analytics

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Quality of Features

97

Ease of Implementation

93

Breadth of Features

91

Usability and Intuitiveness

90

Ease of Customization

88

Availability and Quality of Training

87

Ease of Data Integration

86

Business Value Created

83

Ease of IT Administration

83

Vendor Support

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

78

Datadog Reviews

Theodore S.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Custom dashboards of all accumulated data

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

works great for tracking and monitoring our entire infrastructure, the log flow is much better than the same features of similar products as datadog collects and centralizes all AWS data in one easy to understand dashboard.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We like how fast and efficient it is we use it to monitor our infrastructure, such as servers, containers, processes, storage status, Manages in real time the inactivity of various resources, does a good Network Mapping, allows us to identify errors, performs Monitoring of APM.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The learning curve is not easy for those who are not used to this type of solution. Documentation is missing in some places.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

it's much better to use it for monitoring and alerting capability than anything else I can remember seeing before we started using Datadog

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Caring
  • Saves Time

Isabella G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Datadog is great for monitoring all the resources

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

We had very complex monitoring requirements for IoT-related APIs and mobile app users. There were several different tools, there were no reliable results, and we were losing credibility in the stability and reliability of our infrastructure.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Server Resource Usage, Multi-stage Alerts based on configurable thresholds, Custom Dashboards of all accumulated data, Does a good job of managing logs with full search, live access, and automatic archiving to S3 too it is simple.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Reduce delays in monitoring agent response time.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

is ideal for an environment that doesn't require large investments in supporting infrastructure, a cloud-based approach, or something that is priced fairly enough that it can grow the business

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

Martha J.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Monitor resource metrics well

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

In the past we had problems adding all our portfolio with other solutions but with DataDog it has been different. It helps us monitor incidents in our virtual infrastructure, either locally or in the cloud, it shows us statistics and alarms throughout the infrastructure, regardless of the hosting provider's console.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

has simple dashboards that allow visibility from different vendors to be displayed in one place offers a wide variety of integrations with third-party services and systems has been easy for us available customizations for viewing metrics has helped us identify bottlenecks, it is excellent for monitoring CPU, memory and all resources.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes charts are a bit confusing, Additional reporting capabilities are missing

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

is ideal for businesses of all sizes is good for evaluating application performance and identifying bottlenecks. It has support for custom metrics.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful