Datadog Reviews

Pros

You dont have to manage anything, you just setup your agent and you have monitoring done.

Cons

Documentation is not public available, i dont understand why.

Pros

Simple onboarding and unified metrics. Easily track both frontend and backend performance in one place, accelerating issue resolution and optimization. There flexible pricing models, including session sampling, make the solution ideal for projects of all sizes.

Cons

While the mobile app is convenient, its functionality is somewhat limited compared to the full desktop version.

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Pros

UI experience is good. Data retrieval and visualisation is fast

Cons

Filtering logs is not very awesome. problems with multiline log ingestion

Pros

APM and single pain of glass. This makes it easy to get host metrics for resource utilization and an easy traceback for exceptions.

Cons

Searching logs is not as intuitive as I would like. Text search doesn't work when logs are sent as JSON. Simple grep would make things easier.

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Pros

Ease of use, extensive features, intuitive design. By far the easiest observability platform I've ever used while also being the most feature dense. Impressive, and improving faster than I can even keep up.

Cons

Datadog support leaves much to be desired. They tend to be extremely dismissive, often trying to close the ticket as quickly as they can without offering any help. You really need to ask for escalations or hop on a call to get legitimate help the majority of the time. There is a long-running inside joke at our company that any bug we find will only get the response "ok, we can put in a feature request"...

Pros

End-to-end observability, great search and analytics capability

Cons

Can be expensive, especially at scale. They also introduce new features for free but then charge you later.

Pros

Intuitive UI, and feature packed. Setting up dashboards has been a breeze. Most recently I set up several Synthetic tests for my organization and I was pleasantly surprised with its capabilities. Great documentation to support various features overall.

Cons

My organization has complained about cost of the product.

Pros

Datadog is an excellent tool for monitoring real-time application errors, information, warning logs, and overall infrastructure to ensure performance and reliability.

It is a fully stable application. We enjoy working with it, and we are impressed by its performance. There is no slowness at all, and there is zero downtime. It is a one-shot tool that provides a complete solution to all your requirements with the best customization capability.

Cons

A few improvements are expected: the UI should be more user-friendly, and a help menu with "How to customize easily" should be added for those using it for the first time.
No data visualization.

Pros

It's very complete and supports all kinds of observability tools. The UI is friendly and uniform

Cons

I can't customize the left hand side menu and hide features that I never need.

Pros

- Centralized observability
- Rich features, covering end-to-end stack
- Good UI/UX experience
- Rich integration with other libraries and frameworks
- Reliability and scalability

Cons

- The pricing model is too rigid. It can be expensive when you have the scale.
- The pricing model can be too complicated to understand
- No startup or credits offering

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Pros

Experience with Datadog is Best. Using this Tool since 1 year. I worked on many monitoring tool but this is the one best for cloud and infrastructure monitoring. Datadog provides many third party tools integration, we did many integration and monitored many services. we can setup the alerts on our services for let us know before any unusual activity happens. and main thing is we can redirect that alerts to our notification channel and our teams to work on that. We can integrated our frontend and backend applications and we can collect logs also for our application and we can more debug it. They have built in dashboard feature we can manually create dashboards according to our use case. we can also create synthetic scripts and synthetic monitors such as ping for testing our website is available or not or its properly working or not. we can query our data and fetch it accordingly. Talking about AWS and azure services integration, Its totally easy our teams hasn't fetch any issue, its easy as it is. overall experience is good while using this tool best for keep our application and services up to date and running. They have active customer service.

Cons

Nothing to dislike about Datadog, pricing is quite high but this tool has providing you lot more integration and active customer support so you can raise your query and You will get feedback fast.

Pros

I can see everything in one place and it helps me identify and fix problems quickly

Cons

It takes some time to learn how to use all the features. It's also a bit expensive

Pros

RUM has helped us in identifying the frustrations of end user, visibly view how the end user is interacting with our application and ultimately serve our users better and improve usability for them. Also the Datadog monitors for monitoring CPU and memory usage have been a real game changer in resolving memory leaks.

Cons

Something to improve on is capture information logs whenever required in the RUM sessions in case we want to debug certain scenarios even before errors happen.

Pros

The security measure from the program has been well implemented, and it resolves all the data needs.

Cons

The most efficient data resolving needs are well captured by Datadog.

Pros

very good experience overall. It helps us to check the logs very easily.

Cons

sometimes it has downtime, so our work is interrupted.

Pros

The dashboard in datadog is very customizable, allowing me to view metrics and logs to my preference. This in my opinion, allows me to work very efficiently.

I also appreciate the alerting system as it helps me catch and identify problems.

Cons

The learning curve was a bit hard to understand at first, as there was a lot of options at the start that makes it feel overwhelming.

Pros

Exhaustive it covers almost every aspect of monitoring an application

Cons

Documentation. Mastering the product is hard given it covers so many aspects. However documentation can be improved with more samples and easier doc navigation (it relies too much on blog samples)

Pros

I can logs from various environments and with many options to filter and seerch so I can tweak the settings and see the logs I am looking for.

Cons

I found it a bit difficult to get my head around where to find what and how to make a simple query - but then it's probably because I was completely new to Application Performance Monitoring tools in general. Once I used the tool for some live debugging I got the hang of it :)

Pros

Ease of integrataion. Both alerts, metrics and log aggregation in one place. Website Synthetics was very useful too.

Cons

Data ingestion cost can be too high at times if not controlled in a granular manner.

Pros

Creating custom dashboards and service monitors

Cons

Would like few videos to be published on the customization and the features.

Pros

They provide great features for cloud monitoring and compatible with most of the monitors. UI is fast and support team is very responsive

Cons

It can be complex for someone who is new to monitoring systems and integration is quite difficult with other tools

Pros

The extensive detail of logging it offers.

Cons

The UI can be overwhelming. There are so many areas to explore and so many ways to do it.

Pros

Visibility into what is going on. I often use View in Context.

Cons

Sometimes I end up with just SO many tabs!

Pros

Regardsless its price, Datadog is considered the best monitoring tool I ever use

Cons

A bit pricy, especially on log data ingestion, need to monitor regulerly

Pros

The dashboards and visualizations are top-notch, and the alerts have saved us from downtime.

Cons

I wish the initial setup was more user-friendly, and the pricing can be a bit high.