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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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Datadog the best dog for patroling

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 22, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Datadog served as our end-to-end monitoring solution, covering applications, databases, servers, and more. We extensively utilized Datadog's modules to monitor our entire infr...
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Anuj Rai
Team Lead - Information Technology
Performance Engineer
DISYS
Datadog3 years of experience

Must have Monitoring and Logging tool in Devops Life cycle: DataDog.

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 29, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
DataDog is our OneStop solution for all our observability and monitoring stack needs for monitoring the Backend, Frontend, Database, Proxies, Servers, and all our other Infras...
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Aman Makwana
Engineer - Engineering
DevOps Engineer
Freecharge
Datadog1 year of experience

One Stop solution for your monitoring needs

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 13, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
DataDog is used as directional monitoring tool for all the applications. It is used for full stack monitoring from backend to frontend as well as end user. It helps in keeping...
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Verified user
Engineer
Datadog1 year of experience

Datadog is a great monitoring tool!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 7, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Datadog is used by couple of departments within the organization. We are using it to monitor our infrastructure such as the servers, containers, processes, storage health as w...
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Rajeshh Raghavan
Administrator - Information Technology
Systems Analyst, Engineering
Dreamworks Animation
Datadog2 years of experience

A must-have for any cloud-based software company that will scale with your monitoring needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 12, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Datadog to monitor all kinds of application metrics: errors, network stats, response times, queues, and a bunch of application-specific metrics. We also have alerts set...
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Dmitry Pashkevich
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Calendly
Datadog5 years of experience
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
Up to 5 hosts

Log Management

$1.27

On Premise
Per Million Log Events

Standard

$15/host

Cloud
Up to 500 hosts

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/?utm_s…

Offerings

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

Datadog RUM Demo by Clint Osterholz

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Datadog Event Management Demo

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Integration Demo: Datadog

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Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience | Azure Friday

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Application Security Management Demo

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Datadog Demo - short

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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: Aggregate metrics and events across your entire stack with Datadog's 450+ built-in integrations
  • Supported: Trace requests from end to end across distributed systems with APM
  • Supported: Explore and analyze logs from all your services, applications, and platforms
  • Supported: Proactively monitor critical user journeys and visualize user experience data in one place
  • Supported: Correlate frontend performance with business impact using user experience metrics
  • Supported: Build real-time interactive dashboards to monitor metrics, traces, logs, and more
  • Supported: Visualize traffic flow in cloud-native environments
  • Supported: Monitor ephemeral systems without fatigue using machine learning-based alerts
  • Supported: Detect threats in real-time across your applications, network, and infrastructure with Security Monitoring
  • Supported: Free trial, no credit card needed

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of Out-of-the-box and easily customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog is built to give visibility across teams. You can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify your team, see who responded to that alert before, and remember what was done to fix it.Screenshot of Datadog seamlessly unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of Collect monitoring data from across your entire stack with Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map decomposes your application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of Centralize log data from any source.Screenshot of Datadog's Host Map let you see all of your hosts together on one screen, grouped however you want, filtered however you want, with metrics made instantly comprehensible via color and shape.

Datadog Videos

Datadog offers a single unified platform to observe your infrastructure, applications, network flows, security threats, UX, and more. For full visibility, you can seamlessly navigate between metrics, traces, and logs. See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
Datadog APM provides deep visibility into application performance and code efficiency, so you can monitor and optimize your stack at any scale and provide the best digital experience for your users. APM and distributed tracing are fully integrated with the rest of Datadog, giv...
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The Service Map automatically decomposes your application into all its services and dependencies so you can visualize your architecture in real time.

Datadog Integrations

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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 LanguagesEnglish

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.

Splunk Cloud, Dynatrace, and SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA) are common alternatives for Datadog.

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

The most common users of Datadog are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 11)

Simplest UI in monitoring market and tool than enchances constanlty for users

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 04, 2018
GT
Girivaru Tarun
Customer Success Manager
Botmetric (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are Premium MSP partner for AWS so our DevOps engineers, Managers user them, We also have a product for Cloud Management Platform where we are working on parsing information from Datadog to our SaaS platform to present monitoring data much graphically.
Pros
  • Monitors resource metrics well
  • always prompt
  • simple UI
  • customizations available for metric visualization
Cons
  • no Oracle integration
  • increased data retention of metrics
  • Support for more custom intergrations like Kubernetes etc.
  • go easy on pricing a bit!
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog is best for evaluating performance of applications and identifying bottlenecks. It has support for custom metrics. It has a good UI and constant enrichment of feature set which helps admins and users solve infrastructure issues quickly. Compared to 2-3 years before Datadog now has significant change and is well suited to the cloud environment. Improving very fast. Good job!

Sometime the agent has issues and causes CPU spikes but was fixable.

Watch and monitor clustered applications easily

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 13, 2018
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Datadog
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's being used by all engineers. We have scaled our e-commerce, and Datadog makes easier to look at each cluster. One great point of Datadog is how easy it is to identify an unhealthy box. Also, another great one, is to watch important metrics like CPU and memory. It's way easier to watch it on Datadog rather than AWS itself.
Pros
  • Monitoring unhealthy box instances
  • Watch CPU usage
  • Watch Memory Usage
Cons
  • Monitoring logging issue. To do that, we need other kinds of tool, such as Splunk.
  • It takes a time to create a dashboard from scratch. It's easy to set up by a senior user, but it is not for beginners.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited for any scaled application. During peak time, we can scale up our application, and start watching it via DataDog. Doing so, DataDog provides us a hand dashboard to watch (un)healthy box instances. Last time, it pointed some instances that had a severity memory leak. By identifying those instances, it makes easier to replace that unhealthy instance quickly.

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.

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.

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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