Datadog

Datadog

227 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Datadog	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.	$0 Up to 5 hosts

Pricing

Datadog

Editions & Modules

Free: $0
Up to 5 hosts
Log Management: $1.27
Per Million Log Events
Standard: $15/host
Up to 500 hosts
Infrastructure: $15.00
Per Host Per Month
APM: $31.00
Per Host Per Month
Enterprise: Custom
500+ hosts

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Datadog
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

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Community Pulse
	Datadog
Considered Both Products	Datadog Anuj Rai Performance Engineer Chose Datadog The first reason for selecting Datadog was of course it's pricing which is quite better in terms of competitor like AppDynamics and splunk. Second thing is versatile services which they are offering on one platform which means entire end to end services can be monitor at one … Helpful? Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer Chose Datadog It's a one-stop solution for all our needs whereas in other open-source tools, we have an operational overhead to keep and manage the uptime of these tools as well and also manage their versioning, upgrade, and patching cycle. Also if there are any bugs then we have to raise an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Datadog One of the most important reason is single agent configuration for all kinds of monitoring. It also proved an auto upgrade feature of agents that reduces the overhead. It also provides range of options when it comes to data visualization and dashboards. It also provide tagging … Incentivized Helpful? RR Rajeshh Raghavan Systems Analyst, Engineering Chose Datadog OEM and Vertica Management console are limited to their own databases whereas Datadog has the ability to monitor multiple types of databases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Datadog Kubernetes with Prometheus and other open-source options. It is prone to more toil to set up but the stack can be largely replicated in open source technologies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Datadog New Relic was a good tool but had really pushy salespeople. They also released a product called infrastructure recently, and it was worse than their previous product (servers). The previous product was also free! Needless to say, we will not be going back to New Relic any time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose Datadog Easier to set up and integrate with other auxiliary tools. The cost was also a benefit along with self-service capabilities. We could set up Data Dog by ourselves, versus needing to bring additional consulting efforts to setup Dynatrace. Reliability of results (less false … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Datadog Ultimately, Datadog had the most already-built bridges into our existing infrastructure -- third parties that we're using for certain services are far more likely to work with Datadog than other systems. This means that, while expensive, Datadog has done a tremendous amount of … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer Chose Datadog Datadog has been harder to setup out-of-the-box compared to its alternatives, although it's graphs and dashboards have been more useful. Other tools handle individual tasks better. For example, Splunk has been the best logging tool I've used, and New Relic is great for CPU and … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Zappala ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect Chose Datadog No alternatives were considered for our needs. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Narula Senior Engineer Chose Datadog It has been easier to work with Datadog for all our business needs and get things on their roadmap if we found it lacking. Currently we use a mix of various tools as they were existing prior to Datadog came. We are evaluating new offering like Datadog's latest log management to … Incentivized Helpful? Girivaru Tarun Customer Success Manager Chose Datadog I am listing how Datadog is better than below chosen NotSensu - Datadog has more integrations and easy to use UI. Prometheus - Datadog Integration are more in number than, simple installation process Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Datadog 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. Incentivized Helpful? Mariano Koldobsky Project Leader Chose Datadog I have only used Datadog Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Datadog The pricing, the customer service and it most importantly it does the job we expect. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect Chose Datadog Geckoboard has nice dashboard options, however their third party system support isn't as strong as Datadog. Geckoboard did not support all the various server and development systems we use, whereas Datadog did. Also, Datadog has better alerting and monitoring options than … Incentivized Helpful? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer Chose Datadog Datadog empowers us to create dashboards and visualize the state of our infrastructure in real time. It gives us control over what we want to view and how. The graphs provide deep insight into trends and anamoly detectives. These features are lacking in some of the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Datadog Datadog visually is up there with the rest of these products. For some projects I use datadog and others I use different open source tools. For our production environment we use datadog and with Puppet the installation on each of our servers makes it quick and easy to install. … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Log management Pro Rest api Pro Application monitoring
Top Cons	Minus Set up Minus Learning curve Minus Open source tools

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User Ratings
	Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (22 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend	Datadog 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. Incentivized Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer Read full review
Pros	Datadog 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 Incentivized Anthony Zappala ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect Read full review
Cons	Datadog 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Datadog The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Datadog 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Datadog 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Datadog 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. Incentivized Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect Read full review
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