Datadog

Great platform for logs analysis and cloud monitoring

Opmerkingen: Choosing to use Datadog made my work so much easier to accomplish. The logs analysis is one of the best thing that I can have in order to monitor my projects performance and health. This tool performs well and it is really useful. Real time logging works well. Definitely a must have.

Pluspunten:

I think that the best features that Datadog has is that you can track and follow logs in real time, something really important to have if your project is live. I like the idea of creating custom views of sets of logs (with custom filters, data parsing and a lot more) and that you can share them with your team.

Minpunten:

It is a bit complicated to set for the first time. Is not quite easy to use or know at first about all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky and can be a blocker sometimes. Following that, if your fields are not mapped in the right way, filters are not that useful.

Datadog Review

Opmerkingen: Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would have been great if it had great learning resources to explore it more.

Pluspunten:

- The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards. - Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval. - It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs. -

Minpunten:

- A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs. - UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps.

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.

Overwogen alternatieven: Site24x7 en Raygun

Redenen om voor Datadog te kiezen: Price

Overgestapt van: Retrace by Netreo

Must have for your application monitoring and infrastructure management

Opmerkingen: Overall we are using datadog for application performance monitoring on daily basis an it has really helped us resolve application incidents.

Pluspunten:

Application performance monitoring, server and database monitoring, dashboards & reporting, proactive incident management

Minpunten:

Sythentic queries are difficult to grasp. Need support for more geographies for application performance Monitoring

Overwogen alternatieven: AppDynamics

Great for working with AWS

Opmerkingen: 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

Pluspunten:

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

Minpunten:

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

Overwogen alternatieven: Loggly

Redenen om voor Datadog te kiezen: searching logs was too slow and difficult to get the results we desired quickly (especially to track down recent customer problems)

Redenen om over te stappen op Datadog: better / easier integration with our current development stack