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Good monitoring service for cloud-scale applications
What do you like best about the product?
Love their dashboard functionality. The APIs and interactions are very good,. The built in notification functionality is good
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the datadog service is slow. No flaws other than that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One tool which helps us to track variety of metrics .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DataDog is great tool and it does all hard work and make our life easy.
Datadog works quite well
What do you like best about the product?
Visualization of performance for webapps
What do you dislike about the product?
User interface is a bit confusing, hard to know how to phrase things the first time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Uptime for websites and backend tools
Allows us to quickly see if errors are stacking, or requests are slowing down
Using datadog allowed us to spot an issue with one or our email queues and identify where in the product things were going wrong. Diagnostics took half the time with this knowledge.
Allows us to quickly see if errors are stacking, or requests are slowing down
Using datadog allowed us to spot an issue with one or our email queues and identify where in the product things were going wrong. Diagnostics took half the time with this knowledge.
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The visualization is amazing.
Awesome for keeping an eye on all your virtual machines
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to install and get running on Ubuntu servers
What do you dislike about the product?
APM product is really new, and definitely not on par with what New Relic has to offer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility into general system health on linux cloud virtual machines. Monitoring disk, network, compute and memory resources.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Always free to start off with a few machines and experience it before signing a contract.
Datadog, an easy to setup and use counter/dashboard service
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to setup and use in the code, a couple lines code calling Datadog library you would be able to use it as a fairly scalable and handy counter service
- Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters
- Has built-in alerting/notification functionality which can also be configured from the UI
- Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters
- Has built-in alerting/notification functionality which can also be configured from the UI
What do you dislike about the product?
- Nothing in particular, but one thing is, the more data you have, the slower response Datadog service will become, when you query the service, query a specific counter, as well as when the counter contains high dimensional data, which is normal, we haven't yet tested what is the upper limit for how much data it can decently handle, but it should be enough for small to mid size company
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
use it as a handy counter service, mostly for engineering, to track query per second, system load, memory available, etc...
Datadog is my server messenger
What do you like best about the product?
Many features like Dashboard customisations, managing monitors, events, alerts . and also Datadog has an easy integration through his API
What do you dislike about the product?
Metrics infrastructures needs more improvements in term of functionalities
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Datadog to monitor and logging our servers for any possible bug or miss functionality.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its really easy for personalisation, i would gladly recommend it
Easy-to-use and Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
The data visualization features and API integrations are fantastic. The product is also incredibly easy to use and
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's clunky to create the exact filters for data you're looking for, but overall I don't have much to complain about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use DataDog to display data from within the company, and DataDog's API is well designed and easy to use. We've been able to see results quickly, which increases our ability to be more productive
Versatile tool, would love better wallboard support
What do you like best about the product?
* VERY flexible, you can track pretty much any metric
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
* The datadog agent eats a bit too much memory
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a robust, versatile solution to track a variety of metrics like number of errors, load and response times, job execution stats, db connection usage, track runs of scheduled tasks etc. Datadog allowed us to implement all of that with one tool, and in a way that we don't have to change the code to change the representation of data. It's a great tool to track the health and performance of your services.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I haven't used many alternatives, but Datadog seems like a great versatile tool. Adding new metrics and creating new dashboards is fairly easy, Datadog will do all the hard work.
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
DataDog review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure and report to. Also, very easy to set up dashboards and see visualisation of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow real-time updating of visualisation. There's at least a 20 sec lag between reporting of a metric and updating the graph/metric count on the dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reports on service activity, traffic patterns, extremely convenient to track website health, type and count of requests made, etc.
Datadog integrates with the right stuff
What do you like best about the product?
all the integrations are great - even turned me on to new services we could use
What do you dislike about the product?
The linux service is a pain to use, always having to check the manual for how to do anything, even like what its called.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
devops monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
go for it!
Been using Datadog for almost 2 years monitoring at scale APIs and microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Simple dashboards are really easy to setup but also powerful. We're able to easily monitor many parts of our infrastructure with a few easy integrations using already built Datadog agents. Alerting is also great and easy to setup for simple use cases
What do you dislike about the product?
The minute you get into more complicated scenarios the language used to write more complicated queries the documentation is not so great. From my personal experience I've quite a bit of trouble finding documentation even on functions like `rollup` I end up using quite often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and alerting web applications and APIs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you understand the difference between metrics as count or as rate.
Create monitors after any downtime you experience.
Create monitors after any downtime you experience.
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