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Isaac J.
Principal SRE Architect
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
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Isaac J.: Hi, I'm Isaac. I am a principal SRE architect. I give Datadog five stars out of five. For more...
Sawan J.
ciso
Information Services, 1-10 employees
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Sawan: Hi, I'm Sawan. I'm the Director of Information Security at a privacy business. I would give Datadog...
Diego M.
Investment Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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They monitor everything we run at our company and we recently moved logging to them too. Very happy with support, had to ask them several questions over the years and they always know what I'm looking for.
The metrics navigator, you start by picking a metric or server, and it then tells you all the information it is collecting from it, so you can start designing your monitoring dashboards and see the data that will appear as you go
There are times where a chart would omit certain spikes, due to the way they aggregate values. But a quick email to support and they'll give you the settings you need to adjust not to miss such events, even when you look at a chart for the month
Jeff G.
Marketing and Advertising, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Been great. I wish we could onboard across all Yahoo, but the cost is too high for all engineering to benefit.
Datadog is intuitive, easy to configure, and easy to use.
The cost for Datadog is too expensive.
Andrey P.
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Datadog is a SaaS monitoring solution, that could be used to monitor different aspects of you IT infrastructure. You can find pre-configured solutions in API marketplace, which probably cover all your needs after some fine tuning, otherwise you can build your own solution. Good and responsing customer support. Stable agents
Very poor set of solutions for Microsoft Azure monitoring Very hard for new users, documentation is not very straightforward, so you`ll need to spend a lit of time communicationg with support
Christina Z.
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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A lot of fun for less money. Great software for monitoring kubernetes infrastructure. Very clear dashboards, monitoring is very intuitive, great to use. Setup is simple and installation of the agent on PC was seamless. Aggregate views into one clear dashboard and monitor all metrics at the same time according to various filters and parameters. Many additional features to enrich the data. User friendly.
In the time I have been using it I have not found anything that would not suit me with DataDog I have been very satisfied and it has met my expectations.
ryan l.
Retail, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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It is easy to provision and integrates into modern applications
For basic monitoring of our legacy solutions, the software is to expensive
Gaspar R.
Media Production, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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We're monitoring our complete stack, migrating from Heroku to AWS
Ease of use and integrations. Log management is outstanding, as well as Kubernetes integration
Lack of a simple Prometheus integration. Agent configuration docs (for specifics) is sometimes hard to find
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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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We have been using DataDog to monitor our lambda logs for errors as well as keep track of load and uptime on various RDS and EC2/Fargate instances. The multiple account setup can be a bit flakey at times but overall the product works well and has a consistent interface
The log imports from AWS work really well and are much faster at searching than using AWS Cloudwatch. I find it easy day to day to search for items in logs, especially after implementing a few log transformers
initial setup gets a bit confusing sometimes, and it was easier to change the logging format of our code than to implement lots of parsers to make the log interpretation better
Krista V.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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As a non-technical QA person, I needed a tool to help automate tests without a lot of the technical aspects. Datadog allows me to build and schedule tests by clicking through the online version of our tool, making it incredibly simple. It also records what's wrong and allows me to edit the paths at any time if we ever make changes.
I wish I was able to use this same functionality for our mobile app or even for processes like account creation. Since we push our sign up through a payment portal we're unable to use Datadog in the same was there.
Satbyul K.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Used the open URL to add dashboard to a large monitor on our workspace to easily spot spikes.
Really simple set up to monitor our full stack environment. Dashboard is very clear and suitable for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nothing really. Migrating to any product can be challenging but setup was pretty simple and no key functionality absent.
Aviram R.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Use it every day, easy to implement
All in one shop. APM, DB monitoring , synthetic transaction and log analysis
APM does not work well on nodejs asyc services. Might be hard to track transactions.
Scott B.
Entertainment, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We are using Datadog to monitor and observe over 3000 distinct video streams for outages. It does the job pretty admirably even if I can't tweak the alerts and dashboards as much as I'd like.It is VERY expensive. But it does a lot.
It's pretty easy to get a lot out of Datadog right out of the box -- the AWS and other integrations are amazing and easy to use.
It's REALLY expensive.It's not so easy to really really tweak the dashboarding and alerts to do more advanced mathematics or analysis.
Drew M.
Real Estate, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Very helpful to have a full suite of observability tools. Customer support could be better.
Overall observability is good, and the way all of the offerings interact is helpful.
basic APM requires code customization, which isn't the case with competing products. Documentation for anything beyond basic integration is lacking. Customer support is a bit of a bait and switch; great during eval, and bad once you've bought the product.
Shagun R.
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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I've been using DataDog for a few months now and I'm really happy with it. It's a great monitoring and analytics platform for applications and infrastructure. It's easy to set up and configure, it's reliable, and it provides a lot of useful information to help me troubleshoot and monitor my applications. The dashboards and graphs are easy to understand and are great for getting an overview of how things are performing. The alerting and notifications are very useful, and I'm able to quickly identify and address any issues. Overall, I'm very satisfied with DataDog and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and comprehensive monitoring and analytics platform.
Datadog provides real-time insights into the performance of applications, servers, and services. It helps you quickly identify and troubleshoot issues before they become critical.Datadog is easy to set up and use. It requires minimal configuration and supports various cloud services and integrations, It provides a comprehensive monitoring system for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.
Limited Customization Options: While Datadog provides a lot of pre-built dashboards and visualizations, it does not support extensive customizations.Datadog is a high-end monitoring platform, and its pricing reflects that. It can be expensive for small businesses, especially those who don’t have a large budget for monitoring software.
Marcelo B.
Entertainment, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Datadog is great for bootstrapping and it can get you quite far! Monitoring and alerting tooling is awesome, integrate well with the new products
Datadog is one of the few solutions I’m the market that provides all stack (logs, security, apm, infra …) and they know it. It is not cheap, when compared individually but looking at the big scope the integration is what we are paying for.
David G.
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Can monitor ANYTHING. Centralized place for log analysis, security monitoring, end user monitoring, custom business metrics. Report and alert.
Some items visible in the UI are not capable of being monitored. Unable to get APM for PHP working under litespeed.Improvements in alerting would be nice, better escalation, SMS integration, etc.
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Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Datadog provides a way of having a lot of information about your systems, clusters and infrastructure in only one site, being able to analyze valuable data for your company. It is possible to create alarms and notifications when overpassing some threshold or value, for example, when a service is down in your systems of when the CPU gets a high percentage of usage. It integrates pretty well with tons of services and systems, such as Amazon Web Services, Apache, Nginx, several databases, and a long etcetera. Also, it is possible to send notifications to apps like Slack or Hipchat.
Datadog is not very easy to use at the beginning and it needs a little bit of investigation but it is worth to learn it.
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Human Resources, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We use it as a primary monitoring system. I'm a senior developer in charge of my team and I use it a lot. Dashboards are used daily in order to monitor what's happening, usually when deploying new features or changing some endpoints. We can trace the improvements we do by measuring response time, amount of errors, etc. I, as team lead, also use notebooks a lot to elaborate the QBR (quality business review) each quarter. I can create custom reports easily using the custom metrics we have configured across all the microservices. In comparison with New Relic, from my personal experience, Datadog is much better.
Dashboards. Custom metrics. Ruby integration. Notebooks. Monitors & alerts.
It takes time to understand each part and understand how to use it. It's a complex thing and if you're not familiar with monitoring systems it could be difficult to figure it out how you can find what you need.
Kyle W.
Financial Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We now have billions of logs hitting Data Dog every month. It's a great tool for monitoring and debugging what is going on in the platform. We have alserts setup based on the logging so we are instantly notified of any issues.
Some of the JSON parsing on nested logs come out a little wonky. We overcame this by adding specific logs from our applications that we can search on.
Joseph G.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Able to ingest system logs, app logs, and other logs along with process stats and system metrics to get a wholistic picture of how your servers and applications are running for your business.
Setup does take a while and there is several configuration files to adjust, but once this is done you will not need to touch them again for the lifecycle of the install.
James O.
Market Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Ease of use and flexibility. Beginning teams can leverage out of the box but you can grow into this product as it is quite feature rich. The product just works.
It is so expensive that we consistently have to trim usage when not needed. Also due to this we have to justify the product constantly
Kevin V.
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall Datadog has given us great insight into what is going on with our server infrastructure, it has opened our eyes to some issues we weren't aware of. On top of that it's helped send alerts when things are going wrong.
Datadog has integrations with pretty much every main software service you can think of. It has pretty robust support for Windows machines and the custom metrics support is great, so you can track anything you'd like.
The usability could be improved in some areas, the custom dashboard features are powerful but the syntax can be hard to work with.
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Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Datadog is an amazing cloud monitoring solution that provides great insight and alerting for our platform.
Datadog provides a great, easy-to-use and extensible interface for displaying data out of your own systems, providing you the insight to sniff out issues as they arise.
No matter how many integrations Datadog builds in, there will always be gaps, and some of those gaps hit our needs. As such, we need to use several monitoring solutions to cover our whole platform.
Agustin S.
Logistics and Supply Chain, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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We use it to discover errors in our apps.And we are now testing the RUM service to find out how our customers experience our site.
We discover Datadog as a better alternative to NewRelic which was extremely expensive.We found that Datadog is a very powerful tool with tons of features and services. It provides very detailed performance insights such as speed, latency, uptime, potential threats, etc. We use it mainly for Application monitoring and Real User Monitoring, and we found out that it correlates events between different services which makes it very easy to pinpoint issues with our apps.
It was a little hard to installed all the integrations.And because of a lack of communication with our account managers we ended up paying much more than we thought when deciding to switch to Datadog.The integration with AWS resulted in all host from all environments to appear in Datadog, many of which we didn't need to, and that resulted in a very expensive bill for that specific month.
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Retail, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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the customer experience is perfect, we are assisted every step of the process, and the support is reactive
Datadog is a very powerfull tools, it allows you to gatehered lot of differents metrics, and create very powerfull dashboard to monitor everything that append in your app (server side) but also to monitor your API or your network. it's a very powerful tool !
It can be a bit tricky at the beginning to setup your dashboard, there is a learning curve to understand how to implements everythings
Jim L.
Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The dashboards and alerts are great for monitoring system status. The automated tests are great for checking the status of our systems externally.
Because they are a one-stop shop it is difficult to figure out the exact tooling you need for a problem. They are solving EVERY problem so it's hard to sort things out.