Our company has a microservice architecture, with different teams in charge of different services. Also, it is a start, which means that we have to build fast and move very fast as well. So before we were properly using DD, we often had issues of things breaking, but without much information on where in our system the breaking happened. This was quite a big-time sync as teams were unfamiliar with other teams' codes, so they needed the help of other teams to debug. This slowed our building down a lot. So implementing dd traces fixed this
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Good alerting and issue detection for many valuable features
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
DataDog has many features, but the most valuable have become our primary uses.
Also, thanks to frequent concurrent deployments, the DataDog alerts monitors allow us quickly detect issues if anything occurs.
What needs improvement?
The monitors can be improved. The chart in the monitors only goes back a couple of hours, clunky. Also, it can provide more info, like traces within the monitors. We have many alerts connected to different notification systems, such as Slack and Opsgenie.
When the on-caller receives notifications fired by the alerts, we are taken to the monitors. Yet often, we have to open up many different tabs to see logs, traces and info that is not accessible on the monitors. I think it would make all of the on callers' lives easier if the monitor had more data
For how long have I used the solution?
We've used the solution for three years.
Using Datadog for Log Managment
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to have tedious task like Log Managment be dealt with, in an efficient way. Ease of use and ease of Integration is a big plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is a major drawback. While it might be justifiable for large enterprises with significant budgets, for small to medium-sized businesses or startups, the cost can be prohibitive. The charges accumulate quickly, especially as you add more hosts and services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Issues regarding AWS Monitoring
Datadog is like candy for DevSecOps or FinOps teams!
What do you like best about the product?
The variety of telemetry (features) that can be pulled in results in being able to make more meaningful decisions and process improvements.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime pricing/licensing can be tricky to understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Every month Datadog is solving new problems for us, whether it be cloud cost optimization, or continous profiling which enables us to optimize our microservices quickly.
SL Datadog review
What do you like best about the product?
Full stack monitoring for all of our cloud apps. One tool, one UI. Ease of use. Adding more functionality/features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to Add more functionalty for RBAC (RUM).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
APM/RUM/ Watchdog pinpoints performance issues and helps our SRE team resolve issues quickly.
makes developers life easier
What do you like best about the product?
APM, RUM, Synthetic tests, Reterntion filters.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost ofcourse. some of the feature are abit costly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Observibility for the infrastructure that we have
Starting the journey
What do you like best about the product?
Simplify the troubleshootinh. Reduce the use of several tools in day by day
What do you dislike about the product?
Right now I don`t have bad experiences, but I tihink the comercial negotiations are very hard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The beste benefit is reduce the MTTR
Best observability platfom
What do you like best about the product?
Tagging is very powerfull and allow you to easily create dashboards and filters to help you with troubleshooting and views
What do you dislike about the product?
The price model like 'pay as yougo' is very challenging when we're talking about a bank that has over a 36MM transaction a day
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tagging solutions is benefiting the company with saving of lots and lots of hours
Migration going well
What do you like best about the product?
During our migration from New Relic to Datadog, everyone we've spoken to from Datadog has been extremely helpful. Love support for otel!
What do you dislike about the product?
Log ingestion is very expensive compared to building something ourselves which makes it not worth it to you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application observability and alerting
DB monitorihng
What do you like best about the product?
Very intuituve console for BD monitoring, with complete dashboards and extensive drilldowns to have all the details about your environments
What do you dislike about the product?
We have been using the tool for a couple of months, and so far has been good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Database bottlenecks and lack of resources, causing performance issues
Datadog
What do you like best about the product?
Everything about Datadog was great and useful
What do you dislike about the product?
Datadog only requires you to integrate proudcts with their own services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance of the services for incidents management
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