Datadog reviews

Datadog for log analysis of cloud

Opmerkingen: Till now we have one of the good experience with the data dog as it is helping us a lot in monitoring our cloud and database server. A support from datadog team is also good thing to consider.

Pluspunten:

The best feature of data dog is real time monitoring of logs and vulnerability scan which stands unique to save the server and cloud from further damaging

Minpunten:

The datadog user interface is very hard to learn and with the minimum training anyone cannot operate it fully also a lot of integrations are very difficult to operate.

Powerful and flexible

Opmerkingen: We can connect traces, logs and events on our infrastructure. We can follow every HTTP request that arrives at our API to the individual services. If errors or other events occure we can see them, as they are connected with each request / trace. This helped us a lot in finding bottlenecks in our microservice architecture

Pluspunten:

I really like that datadog offers a free tier to get startet with it. It helped building a net of monitoring around our servers and services. We have implemented a wide collection of (they call it synthetic tests) that we use as an continuous integration test suite. We even can monitor the performance of different application versions.

Minpunten:

Even if their locally installed agent on our servers is very flexible and can collect so many information, the configuration via YAML files is difficult to start with. The learning curve here is pretty steep in the beginning.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: New Relic

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: The possibilities to make evaluations were much better back then

Datadog is a great Observability+log analysis tool

Opmerkingen: It's a great tool for monitoring, alerting, log analysis and synthetics. Good support for small startup companies as well.

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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

Couldn't install

Opmerkingen: If you can get it running I am sure it's good.

Pluspunten:

Looks like it should do the job, less log limits than other products.

Minpunten:

Spent days trying to get it working on a pretty vanilla Windows VM but never could get it up and running. Support pretty much just told me to read the documentation which wasn't really helpful after going over it ten times already. Had similar problem with another product and they could tell me the exact lines of the config and registry that needed changing.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Site24x7 en Raygun

Redenen om voor Datadog te kiezen: Price

Overgestapt van: Retrace by Netreo

Real time Platform Monitoring Tools

Opmerkingen: DataDog is the best observability monitoring tool to detect any type of error in the system. The user interface is very simple and customer support and account help our teams in providing training and guidance in case of any issue. It can easily integrate with all third-party tools like Jira, slack, opsgenie

Pluspunten:

The most like features of datadog are it provides real-time monitoring of any happens In the system and it is easily customizable. With the help of logs, we can easily create the monitor and dashboards. It can easily use all other third-party tools and can create alerts. It also provides anomaly which works on past data and it is sensitive and useful. Datadog is also AI capable, There is a feature called Datadog Insight which can easily detect any error in the system.

Minpunten:

Datadog is a fairly new application, Learning advanced features we are not able to find much documentation and learning on the internet. It also stores limited historical data and licensing is fairly high compared to similar monitoring platforms.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Amazon CloudWatch

Overgestapt van: Splunk Enterprise

Among the top 3 server and application monitoring solutions

Opmerkingen: It provides good and detailed info both on server monitoring metrics as well as on the application monitoring options.The experience with Datadog is excellent and, if you choose it, you are not losing anything in regard to the alternatives (the only exception is if you have the expertise to deploy open source solutions yourself).

Pluspunten:

Generous free plan with detailed information both on server and application monitoring.

Minpunten:

Nothing unusual. Being a paid platform, it naturally set limits on its free plan (fair) but, for this reason, you may prefer the responsibility to deploy an open source alternative (to remove those limits) instead of upgrade to a paid plan.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: New Relic

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: When using Datadog, I chose it instead of New Relic because of its more generous free plan. But since then, the competition between them seems to have intensified, and currently the free plans of both platforms are very similar.

Best Application Performance Monitoring tool!

Opmerkingen: Datadog helped us solve a critical reliability and traceability problem we had with one of our customers. There was not clear visibility into the root cause of an issue when it happens and that caused finger pointing between teams. While there were other monitoring tools being used, they lacked the capabilities that Datadog has which provided much greater visibility and helped us improve the reliability of our system landscape. Onboarding was a breeze and customer service top notch!

Pluspunten:

Service Map, Session Replay, Custom metrics and monitors

Minpunten:

We had a sticker shock after onboarding, as the was the hosts were counted for certain infrastructure was not clear from the documentation.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Dynatrace en SignalFx

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: Ease of integration, comprehensive documentation, good community engagement, good customer service, clarity in pricing

The best monitoring tool

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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

Cloud-scale infrastructure with Datadog

Opmerkingen: Overall great tool for working professionals and helpful in supporting cloud-scale infrastructure

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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

Tried but with hesitation elected to stay on SolarJunk

Opmerkingen: We tried the product and may reconsider as soon as we can visual an ROI worthwhile

Pluspunten:

It provided some key insights just missed on an all-in-one package

Minpunten:

key features like integrated APM and IPAM missing

Solving most of our logs need

Opmerkingen: Solving lot of debugging problems and close track of our infra system using the alerting mechanism.

Pluspunten:

good integrations with collectors. Open text search. Alerting systems. custom downtime for deployments.

Minpunten:

Aggregation and APM metrics. More of alerting. New features to aggregate fields

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Grafana

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: Limited setup time, easy to use interface, less technical savy person can also use it

Datadog does a lot out of the box

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

It's REALLY expensive.It's not so easy to really really tweak the dashboarding and alerts to do more advanced mathematics or analysis.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Grafana

Redenen om voor Datadog te kiezen: I was not involved in the decision

Overgestapt van: Grafana

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: I was not involvd

Generally good, customer support could be better

Opmerkingen: Very helpful to have a full suite of observability tools. Customer support could be better.

Pluspunten:

Overall observability is good, and the way all of the offerings interact is helpful.

Minpunten:

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.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Dynatrace

Powerful tool for monitoring business applications

Opmerkingen: Datadog has been really efficient and useful since through its implementation you can monitor all business applications and thus be aware of its operation whether the same is appropriate or not and if not, you can take the appropriate measures so that the same is again the appropriate performance, that is why having this tool is a great advantage at the business level.

Pluspunten:

Datadog is a tool that I like for several reasons, because implementing it does not require technical knowledge, has a series of metrics that allow you to read whether the performance of applications or servers is appropriate or not, so if you find a failure or something out of the ordinary in these applications the user immediately receives alerts that notify him of this problem so that it can be resolved in the shortest possible time, these alerts being received at any time since Datadog works continuously 24/7 and the best thing is that it is a software that is very easy to use and implement, in addition to being extremely flexible because it allows you to choose the monitoring parameters that you want to apply.

Minpunten:

Datadog is not a perfect tool because it has some drawbacks and is that the more applications are integrated with this software the performance or speed of information delivery tends to slow down which should not be since the integrations are to improve even more the performance of said tool.

Great end to end Integration

Pluspunten:

Datadog is great for bootstrapping and it can get you quite far! Monitoring and alerting tooling is awesome, integrate well with the new products

Minpunten:

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.

Gamechanging Lifesaver

Pluspunten:

Can monitor ANYTHING. Centralized place for log analysis, security monitoring, end user monitoring, custom business metrics. Report and alert.

Minpunten:

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.

one of the best software for monitoring in the market

Pluspunten:

This software allows to monitoring all you need and also can find lots of solutions for a high gama of cases. by using this app i be able to see the problems that me and my team have, so we can solve it by utilizing all the data that datadog provides. Works in differents OS and that make things more easy

Minpunten:

The proces to instal and put in march this softwre can be a nightmare if you have not experience, it is really complicated. Though the software have nice tools, the price is not the best in the market, is posible to find something good for lowes price if you know what are you loking for. And finally haved some problem with some data transfer working with this app but i really dont konw what was the razon why

Datadog Review

Opmerkingen: Making the decision to utilize Datadog really facilitated my job. One of the finest tools that I can use to keep an eye on the performance and health of my projects is the study of the logs. This gadget works nicely and is quite practical. Real-time logging is effective. Definitely essential.

Pluspunten:

From my opinion, with the most excellent features that Datadog has as user can track and take after logs in real time, something truly imperative to have within the case of extend is live. I usually like the idea of creating custom sees of sets of logs (with custom channels, information parsing and a parcel more) which user will share them together with the user group.

Minpunten:

Setting it up for the first time, seems like is a little challenging which is not at all simple to use or understand all the capabilities that Datadog provides at first. Interface is challenging and occasionally a roadblock. Then, filters are not very helpful if user fields are not properly mapped.

Great server monitoring

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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

Monitor full stack app performance with Datadog

Pluspunten:

For our AWS deployment, we use Datadog for application performance and server monitoring as well as synthetic HTTP tests . DataDog enables real-time information and measuring engineering-specific metrics and allows you to control how you trace and diagnose data. If you are looking to track the time it takes for a web hook to fire after an asynchronous request has been made, you can store the time the request has been sent in your database and when the webhook fires for that request, measure the delta and send it to DataDog. DataDog integrates with Slack, which allows for alerts on average and max thresholds.

Minpunten:

Datadog has a mature product but features are limited, the tool feels dated and the UI is very plain.

Platform observation tool

Opmerkingen: We are happy to use

Pluspunten:

We do like easy management and analysis of logs, tracing .

Minpunten:

Helm charts is bit hard to understand. Configuration might be hard for non experienced person

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: Dynatrace

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: Cheaper then dynatrace

maintain observability with Datadog

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

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

Great metrics and monitoring

Opmerkingen: 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.

Pluspunten:

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.

Minpunten:

The usability could be improved in some areas, the custom dashboard features are powerful but the syntax can be hard to work with.

Good tool for APM

Opmerkingen: It is very useful tool and we hardly getting any downtime issue with the Datadog itself.

Pluspunten:

We use Datadog mostly for our infra monitoring and log management. These features are very useful as they are real-time, helps to make sure our services are up and running, provide alerts whenever there's anomaly, and we can always trace back using their logs.

Minpunten:

Pretty pricey and their UI is not easy to understand, first time user will need more time to adjust.

Great web monitoring tool

Pluspunten:

Great web monitoring tool if you have the time to dig into all the options and settings. The user interface is really professional and good looking and the charts and graphs are well thought out.

Minpunten:

It requires a bit of server tinkering, which I wasn't familiar with. Not really a minus.

Eerder overwogen alternatieven: New Relic