Likelihood to Recommend DataDog Is well suited to all of the Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions, DB monitoring, and other Network monitoring also. It's not well suited because it cannot give perfect Infrastructure recommendations for our use case but also For example: If we are using AWS DB to monitor performance insights then Datadog is less effective there because AWS gives very niche recommendations.
Read full review Great for organizations that need to centralize different types of logging across integration, qa, sandbox and production environments. Would be less impactful for organizations that don't have complex logging needs.
Read full review Pros APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair. Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done. Lightweight agent on hosts Read full review Providing in-depth insights A related content feature which really helps us to figure out which service is breaking the infrastructure. The Log explorer which helps us to explore the entire log and pin point the errors/issues. Fast and powerful log investigation Read full review Cons We had a couple "integrations" that had some issues during setup, but Support addressed them very quickly Unnecessary alerts about DataDog components...by the time I see them, they're almost always also fixed I wish there was a DataDog mobile app that would have dedicated alerts (configurable per alert to override Do Not Disturb setting) instead of relying on emails notifications that could be overlooked in the midst of many incoming emails around the same time. Read full review Integrating the system with Slack channels Saving the logs in different cloud provider Viewing the logs at more fine grained level based on user roles and permissions Read full review Likelihood to Renew I'm a Splunk specialist, and I'm involved in its use and improvement.
Read full review Usability The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.
Read full review It gives access to data features for every level of users: from managers and executives to Analysts, each one with the correct level of observation and analysis.
Read full review Support Rating The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.
Read full review Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.
Read full review Implementation Rating Follow a training before starting.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.
Read full review I had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there.
Read full review Return on Investment Visibility into website issues and performance problems has improved our company communication. Handling and detecting site issues faster has improved customer satisfaction and retention. Configuration of the Datadog site can take a bit of time and we lost a bit of developer time during that process. Read full review Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously. Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics. Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost. Read full review ScreenShots