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 Systems Management category

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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.

93 Likeliness to Recommend

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100 Plan to Renew

88 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.

+88 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?

5% Negative
8% Neutral
87% Positive

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Fair
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Cloud Monitoring

92

Capacity Management

91

Multi-Site Functionality

89

Storage Monitoring

89

Auto-Discovery

89

Server Performance Monitoring

88

Network Configuration Management

88

Centralized Dashboard

88

Network Performance Management

87

Applications Monitoring

85

Deployment Model

85

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Quality of Features

90

Breadth of Features

90

Ease of Implementation

89

Ease of Data Integration

89

Ease of IT Administration

89

Business Value Created

87

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Vendor Support

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

84

Ease of Customization

83

Availability and Quality of Training

83

Datadog Reviews

Shiv Dayal G.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Real time metrics using Datadog

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog has easy access over the cloud which provides best security services to the deployed code. along with this, it provide monitoring to the servers and we can easily customize metrics of all real time data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Datadog very easy to use and helps me out in easily tracking my real time metrics. i can easily monitors all my deployed code and maintain it over the cloud easily.

What do you dislike most about this product?

pricing model is somewhat hard to understand for me , when dealing with custom metrics as it can be hard to handle tags in that. It can be more great to get some additional kind of quote calculator so we can figure out how much a change is going to cost us before we implement it in real time.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Datadog will be helpful for all searching out for best monitoring servers software as data dog is easy to use and help easily monitor our deployed code over the cloud.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Martin D.

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

Submitted Feb 2024

Excellent product. It's core in our workflow.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

It's incredibily easy to setup and monitor. Dashboard are like any other.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's one of the major players on the market and it's been very reliable ever since. Since this is a mission critical aspect we value the reliability greatly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Support could it's hard to reach in some cases.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Reading the documentation throughly can save time when setting up.

Pros

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

Mohd S.

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

Submitted Aug 2025

Easy to use, powerful monitoring tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog is easier to set up and use compared to many other tools, and it brings everything logs, metrics, traces into one place, which makes troubleshooting much faster

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Realtime Metrix

What do you dislike most about this product?

Missing Metrix, Invalid Metrix

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Start with a clear plan for what you want to monitor and keep an eye on usage to control costs. Take advantage of the built-in integrations

Pros

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

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