Datadog Customer Reviews 2025 | SoftwareReviews

Datadog

Composite Score

8.4 /10

CX Score

8.5 /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 Systems Management category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Service Experience
Product Impact

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

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.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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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.

+90 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

9% Neutral

89% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Performance Enhancing
Fair
Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Cloud Monitoring

Capacity Management

Multi-Site Functionality

Server Performance Monitoring

Storage Monitoring

Centralized Dashboard

Auto-Discovery

Network Configuration Management

Network Performance Management

Automated Remediation

Applications Monitoring

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

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Datadog Reviews

Prashant D.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

All-in-One Observability with Excellent Dashboards

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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

Ikponmwosa O.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Very Information driven product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

The functionality and its easy to navigate the features

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the features and ui

What do you dislike most about this product?

complexity of to much data

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommended

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Meredith H.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

Reliable Product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog combines infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and more into a single platform, providing a holistic view of system health.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate the real-time data and alerts, which help us quickly address issues as they arise.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Datadog can be expensive, especially for smaller organizations or extensive use cases, which might be a concern for budget-conscious teams.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Integrating Datadog early in the development lifecycle is beneficial for better tracking and performance insights.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

Datadog Ratings

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 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

Cloud Monitoring Monitor SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS deployments (e.g., metrics such as throughput, latency, and failed requests).

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Multi-Site Functionality Centralized management of resources across multiple remote locations.

Server Performance Monitoring Monitor and report server performance (e.g., memory, CPU, and disk utilization).

Storage Monitoring Monitor storage performance and capacity.

Centralized Dashboard Summarize the overall status of your data center, including alerts, performance, and capacity.

Auto-Discovery Automate discovery of systems and assets on your network.

Network Configuration Management Provide configuration change tracking, configuration backup scheduling, and compliance monitoring for defined standards.

Network Performance Management Includes network performance analysis, bandwidth monitoring, and capacity planning.

Automated Remediation Automate remediation of alerts due to exceeding defined thresholds e.g. trigger scripts to address low disk space alerts.

Applications Monitoring Monitor applications and associated infrastructure, including databases, middleware, and messaging components.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Datadog Reviews

Prashant D.

All-in-One Observability with Excellent Dashboards

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ikponmwosa O.

Very Information driven product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Meredith H.

Reliable Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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