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Overview

What is Datadog?

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.

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Great tool and industry standard

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 14, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our organization, Datadog is a core observability tool used across the platform and application teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems...
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Engineer
Datadog7 years of experience

Datadog

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2025
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At our small startup of seven engineers, we use Datadog to centralize observability across our stack. For logging, we aggregate application and infrastructure logs to quickly ...
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Engineer
Datadog4 years of experience

Great tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 14, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Datadog provides us valuable insights to metrics and trends that help us make informed decisions. We also heavily use logging, along with traces, which provides full context o...
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Engineer
Datadog3 years of experience

Datadog - a powerful all inclusive tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2025
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Datadog is used as a monitoring and observability platform to gain real-time insights into performance, health, and errors within our infrastructure. We use infrastructure mon...
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Team Lead
Datadog2 years of experience

Datadog - The Swiss Army Knife for SaaS

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Datadog to monitor our SaaS offering from Cloud Infrastructure to Real User Monitoring with Session Recording with correlated APM and application logs. We also have Pro...
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Engineer
Datadog1 year of experience
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Pricing

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Log Management

$1.27

On Premise
per month (billed annually) per host

Infrastructure

$15.00

On Premise
per month (billed annually) per host

Standard

$18

Cloud
per month per host

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $18 per month per host
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Product Demos

Cloud Security Management

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Application Vulnerability Management Demo

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Continuous Profiler Demo

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Container Monitoring Demo

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Product Details

What is Datadog?

Datadog is a monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Datadog's SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of their customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

Datadog Features

  • Supported: Datadog's APM traces requests from end to end across distributed systems
  • Supported: Logs from all services, applications, and platforms can be explored and analyzed
  • Supported: Proactively monitor critical user journeys and visualize user experience data in one place
  • Supported: Frontend performance can be correlated with business impact using user experience metrics
  • Supported: Real-time interactive dashboards can be built to monitor metrics, traces, and logs
  • Supported: Visualized traffic flow in cloud-native environments
  • Supported: Monitoring of ephemeral systems without fatigue using machine learning-based alerts
  • Supported: Detects threats in real-time across applications, network, and infrastructure with Security Monitoring
  • Supported: Free trial, no credit card needed
  • Supported: Datadog's 850+ built-in integrations aggregate metrics and events across the entire stack

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.Screenshot of Datadog's Host Map, which lets users see all hosts together on one screen, grouped and filtered as desired, with metrics made instantly comprehensible via color and shape.

Datadog Videos

Datadog offers a single unified platform to monitor infrastructure, applications, networks, security threats, and UX. Users can navigate between metrics, traces, and logs. Built-in machine learning tools, clear visualizations, and a companion mobile app make it easy to monitor growing environments.
Businesses can consolidate their tools with Datadog’s all-in-one observability and security solution in order to drive resource efficiencies while accelerating time to market and delivering superior customer experiences.
Datadog provides real-time visibility and actionable insights into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, helping complex organizations streamline incident management, reduce costs, and maximize uptime in a single, unified platform.
Global financial services institutions monitor the health, security, and performance of their most business-critical systems with Datadog’s unified observability platform.

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Datadog Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat, Fedora, CoreOS, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, SmartOS, Chef, Puppet, Ansible
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxumbourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Datadog starts at $18.

Splunk Cloud Platform, Dynatrace, and New Relic are common alternatives for Datadog.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Datadog are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 7)

DataDog: Great Tool for Enterprise Monitoring, Alerts, Metric Aggregation, and Dashboards/Graphs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 05, 2019
GS
Gabriel Samaroo
Senior Software Engineer
Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The engineering/dev-ops teams use DataDog as the tool of choice for monitoring our applications/servers, and for aggregating logs. All of our applications and micro-services use the DataDog Rest API to send metrics to, so that we can monitor performance and CPU usage, and setup alerts in case any issues arise.
Pros
  • Great UX. Good looking dashboards and advanced graphs.
  • Simple Rest API allowing integration with basically any service/application. Allows for the creation of a centralized source of data.
  • Good API documentation and very responsive customer service.
  • Good pricing model for micro-services. Can handle getting data from many sources without having to pay as much as alternatives.
Cons
  • Limitation on what you can do with reporting and analytics. If you need to do very advanced mathematical/graphing operations, might need to use data in another BI Tool to accomplish.
  • Good amount of upfront work to install and configure across your entire application/software stack. Heavy learning curve.
  • Logging capabilities not as robust as alternatives like Splunk.
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog is great when you have a complex software system, with multiple applications and micro-services. If you have the resources to do the upfront work of integrating with your platform(s), it will be a great tool to handle monitoring/alerts. It also has nice features for log aggregation. The graphs and dashboards also make Datadog a useful tool to others, such as Managers and non-Engineers, not only for Dev-Ops and Engineers directly using it. If you want something to use quicker out-of-the-box or don't want to spend any money there are quicker/cheaper options.

Good solution for cloud monitoring

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 18, 2017
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Datadog for monitoring our public cloud. We integrate it with some of the AWS components and monitor our instances on the cloud. It's a great solution for cloud-based monitoring with APIs.
Pros
  • Dashboards are so great.
  • Rest API functionality makes this one of the best monitoring tools on the market.
  • With the integration it provides with cloud watch, there is an option to monitor even without the agent installation.
Cons
  • We need to automate the agent installation, otherwise, it's a tedious job to do manually.
  • The integration with AWS had some issues in the past, but that seems better now.
  • This product has a steep learning curve at the beginning.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited for monitoring instances in the cloud. Good pricing. But I feel that the performance monitoring and instrumentation is still better in New Relic.

Datadog - A good solution.

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2016
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Datadog is being used to pull variable information from an agent on each of our servers and sent to a centralized location so we have a one stop place to understand how well our servers and services are doing. It is being used by the operations team as well as developers. It addresses getting having to go many places to get the same information.
Pros
  • Centralized data.
  • Quick easy graphs.
  • Customization.
Cons
  • Many other products out there like it.
  • Not as dynamic as some other open source tools.
  • Pricey compared to open source tools.
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog can be used by any company that wants to get a deeper understanding of their systems and services. It's great for each project to determine what quantifiable data would lead to success. It would be less appropriate to use it for financial information as there are lots of better tools for that.

Very easy tool to adapt and to use!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 20, 2019
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We had very complex monitoring requirements for APIs related to IoT and mobile app users. There were several different tools, no reliable results and we were losing credibility in the stability and reliability of our infrastructure. Also, all tools were very difficult to manage, implement and support, not to mention expensive.
Pros
  • API monitoring
  • End-user experience
  • Easy to implement
Cons
  • Agent-based
  • Initial learning curve
  • Azure integration could be easier
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloud, API and end-user monitoring. Complex monitoring situations where multiple platforms are involved. Love also the integration with other solutions like Slack. I cannot see any specific situation where it doesn't fit—for those particular platforms mentioned before. I do not consider the price to be expensive, but that's my opinion.

Data Dog Wins at Monitoring and Alerting

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 17, 2019
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our IT department uses Data Dog to monitor critical server uptime as well as switches and routers over SNMP. We also use the Data Dog API to write critical events for alerting and monitoring. We don’t currently use the application monitoring features, but I could see us using them in the future.
Pros
  • Price.
  • Functionality/extensibility.
  • Support.
  • Community.
Cons
  • Documentation is lacking in some places.
  • Some features could be easier to set-up.
  • Favors customization over simplicity.
Likelihood to Recommend
Data Dog is great product for modern tech stacks on cloud technology. Might not be as good of a fit for non tech companies or older tech stacks. This being said we use it to monitor some old windows servers and some old sql server instances. We also appreciate the custom API and use it for some of our apps to write alerts of issues to.
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