Alerting and metrics improve monitoring efficiency while pricing presents challenges
What is our primary use case?
The primary purposes for which Datadog is used include infrastructure monitoring and application monitoring.
The main use case for Datadog integration capabilities is to monitor workloads in public cloud, and those public cloud integrations that reached the public cloud metric natively were helpful or critical for us. We are not using Datadog for AI-driven data analysis tasks, but more cloud-native and vendor-native tools at the moment, and at the time when I was still in my last employer, we didn't use Datadog for the AI piece at all.
What is most valuable?
I find alerting and metrics to be the most effective features of Datadog for system monitoring. It was still cheaper to run Datadog than other alternatives, so the running costs were cheaper because it was SaaS and quite easy to use.
Datadog is only available in SaaS.
What needs improvement?
The pricing nowadays is quite complex.
In future updates, I would like to see AI features included in Datadog for monitoring AI spend and usage to make the product more versatile and appealing for the customer.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Datadog since 2014.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
There were no problems with the deployment of Datadog.
The deployment of Datadog just took a few hours.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The challenges I encountered while using Datadog were in the early days when the product was missing the ability to monitor Kubernetes and similar features, but they have since added those features. At the moment, I don't think there are too many challenges that I am worrying about.
How was the initial setup?
One person is enough to do the installation.
What other advice do I have?
I am not working with any of these solutions currently because I'm on sabbatical, but I used to work with Datadog six months ago, and now at the moment I'm on sabbatical.
We were using the tools that AWS and Azure came with natively to monitor the AI workflows on their platforms.
I used to work as the CTO at Northcloud, but I no longer work there.
On a scale of one to ten, I rate Datadog an eight out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Decoding Chaos with Datadog
What do you like best about the product?
What impressed me most was how observability didn't feel like an afterthought. From the momentI integrated our service, I started discovering unknown bottlenecks without even setting custom alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Switching between dashboards, logs, and monitor sometimes felt like context switching between apps. I wished there were more shortcuts stitch it together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog helps us reduce our incident response time drastically connecting metrics, logs and traces in one place. We used to rely on multiple disconnected tools , now we catch issue earlier and more context.
Its a great to track all the endpoints
What do you like best about the product?
data accuracy and tracking for endpoints
What do you dislike about the product?
Analytics can be improved, more visualizations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm tracking the error rates of each endpoints
More reliable and comprehensive monitoring solution
What do you like best about the product?
We can monitor our all in centralized platform. Dashboards are very clear and we can integrate our other solutions as well. That is big advantage for us. We can fix and resolve our problems quickly using datadog
What do you dislike about the product?
Compared to other competitive products, datadog price are bit higher. Small and medium size businesses cannot buy this product easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can quickly identify and and respond to our problems in our systems and applications. It gives real time visibility for all our systems in centralized platform. We can minimize trouble-shootings and save our time.
Monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
Mainly best for Metrics and track performance and logs and alerting and integration
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislikes. But Unable to see code level in the background. Which process are running.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking application performance and cloud analytics and checking the logs and faster issue detection and track user interactions
Datadog: The best observability platform I've come across
What do you like best about the product?
User-friendly dashboards, Comprehensive monitoring, Eady out of box integrations,Real time alerts and highly scalable for enterprise workloads
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve for a few features, the website may get janky and lag due to high volumes, slightly expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a modular architecture for our systems which means a lot of microservices and cloud native applications, datadog seamlessly provides end to end observability of all the distributed systems and troubleshooting is easier with datadog, it also helps identify performance bottlenecks and with real user monitoring the issues arr identified quickly.
Datadog review
What do you like best about the product?
1. Comprehensive monitoring.
2. Integration.
3. Real-time data.
4. Scalability
5. User-friendly interface
What do you dislike about the product?
1.Cost
2. Complexity
3. Learning curve
4. Data retension
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
realtimne monitoring across infrastructure and application logs
Highly costumizable monitoring tool for cloud and onprem
What do you like best about the product?
Highly customizable took easy to integrate to servicenow and get email notification.
What do you dislike about the product?
Creating aleart logic is sometime difficult creating custom monitory can be simplified.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides complete end to end conitoring solution for infrastructure with notification and integration with ticketing tools able to create different viw and dashbord for each team.
Datadog is a powerful platform/tool for monitoring/logging/error tracking but might not be for you
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog is pretty awesome, it's really powerful, we can add logs from our platforms, it tracks automatically the `console.errors` on the frontend, we can track the specific line when mappings are available, it allow us to track the CPU usage, it even can be connected to services like OpsGenie, or Slack or others, also it has support for IDEs which means we can open the error directly on our IDE, which is really awesome... but maybe the most important is that we can have a complete platform for control of our code/infra in one single place, as a FrontEnd developer, this help us also to track properly what the users see and replicate issues as closes as we can without bothering our customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's really expensive, sometimes configuring a dashboard or specific monitors is really hard as the platform is too big, which feels overwhelming, meaning we can't properly find some parts or things like that, also for example on the error login I think it should work the opposite when creating a query using the filters, as we should start with nothing selected, and then we can start filtering, so it's not hard to find what we want...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We monitor all our infra with Datadog, also our platforms (Backend, Frontend applications) in just one single place, we even track some extra things on Datadog like third party API responses using the logging part... so we have full observability of what is happening in all the places.
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What do you like best about the product?
Best monitoring tool and easy to understand
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont say i dislike, it'd be extra good if there's a troubleshooting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog solves the challenge of fragmented monitoring by providing a unified platform for infrastructure, application, log, and security observability. It enables real-time insights, faster issue resolution, and efficient root cause analysis across dynamic, cloud-native environments. This leads to improved system reliability, better team collaboration, reduced downtime, and enhanced user experience—all from a single, scalable tool.
