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Datadog

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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 is a versatile tool that offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring and observing various components of the infrastructure. It …
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Datadog Review

8 out of 10
March 09, 2019
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We use Datadog on almost all of our production systems to give us granularity into how systems are running, and additionally, use …
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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
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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

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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

DataDog is a versatile tool that offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring and observing various components of the infrastructure. It has been widely adopted by engineering and DevOps teams for its ability to monitor applications, aggregating logs, and setting up alerts. Users have found it particularly useful for tracking and analyzing data, enabling them to make informed business decisions. With its user-friendly interface, DataDog makes it easy for users to navigate and utilize its features, addressing both business and technical needs in a rapidly evolving infrastructure. Customers have praised the software for its ability to streamline workflows, increase productivity, and manage business operations efficiently. The product's reliability and stability have also been commended with minimal downtime or technical issues. Additionally, the integration capabilities of DataDog with other software systems allow for seamless data transfer and efficient collaboration. The reporting and analytics capabilities have proven valuable in monitoring key metrics and performance. Users have also highlighted the prompt and helpful customer support provided by DataDog when needed.

In use cases specific to organizations such as Wayfair's Monitoring, Network Ops, and Critical Incident teams, DataDog is utilized to provision, manage, and maintain internal and external sites and applications. These teams rely on the software's dashboard functionality during server or website issues to quickly assess the current state of the environment. Furthermore, integration with ServiceNow allows for storing and indexing DataDog alerts, while additional notification systems ensure widespread communication of alerts to stakeholders.

DataDog proves its versatility by supporting a wide range of integrations, making it suitable for monitoring any service. It is implemented as the APM of choice for organizations seeking insights into metrics such as ELB, container and network stats, memory usage, slow queries, high throughput readings, and request tracing. This centralized solution helps organizations monitor instances in private cloud and AWS environments effectively. It aids in monitoring critical server uptime along with switches and routers while integrating with APIs for event generation and alerting.

The product finds its applicability in diverse scenarios, including monitoring public cloud instances, addressing complex monitoring requirements for IoT and mobile app APIs, and aiding in root cause analysis by monitoring multiple hosts for networking, compute, memory, and application-level metrics. DataDog has also proven valuable in e-commerce applications, providing a comprehensive solution for monitoring applications and logging within a single pane of glass.

Overall, users have reported positive experiences with DataDog, highlighting its usefulness in various use cases and praising its features such as the user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, reliability, and customer support.

Easy customization and understanding: Many users have found the dashboard in Datadog to be easy to customize and understand for their organization's needs, allowing them to effectively consume various site metrics.

Strong integration support: Several reviewers appreciate the strong integration support of Datadog, mentioning that it supports pretty much any service they can think of. This flexibility allows them to seamlessly integrate with other tools and services in their workflow.

Helpful customer support: Users have mentioned that Datadog's customer support is helpful and responsive. They appreciate the assistance provided by the support team in finding workarounds for any issues they encounter during their usage of the platform.

Challenging User Interface: Some users have found the user interface of Datadog to be challenging, particularly when searching for host information and the agent install link. Navigating and locating these features has taken some time.

Limited Reporting and Analytics: Several reviewers have mentioned limitations in reporting and analytics capabilities of Datadog. They feel that advanced mathematical and graphing operations are not well-supported, leading them to suggest using another business intelligence tool for these tasks.

Steep Learning Curve: Many users have emphasized a heavy learning curve associated with setting up and configuring Datadog across the entire application or software stack. This upfront work, combined with a lack of intuitive navigation, has made it overwhelming for newcomers to find the right metrics or dashboards unless they know exactly what they're looking for.

Based on user reviews, users commonly recommend the following for Datadog:

  • Try the free trial and evaluate different plans. Users suggest taking advantage of the free trial offered by Datadog to determine which plan best suits their needs. This allows users to explore the features and functionalities of Datadog before committing to a paid subscription.

  • Consider cost and compatibility. Customers advise being mindful of the cost associated with Datadog, particularly when compared to open-source solutions for managing a large number of servers. Additionally, users recommend considering the compatibility of Datadog with serverless styles, as this may impact its effectiveness in certain environments.

  • Conduct a proof of concept (POC) and onboard employees. Reviewers highlight the benefits of conducting a proof of concept (POC) with Datadog before fully integrating it into their infrastructure. They emphasize that Datadog is easy to evaluate and onboard employees, making it a valuable tool for monitoring complex infrastructures. Users also mention that building an alerting and monitoring system is made easier with Datadog's capabilities.

While some users mention that Datadog can be expensive compared to open source alternatives and may have a more complex user interface, they believe that once users become familiar with the app, it is highly efficient. The visualization tools and reporting metrics offered by Datadog are considered essential for any organization. Furthermore, reviewers praise the great support provided by Datadog and encourage reaching out to them for any questions or concerns.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I guess Datadog has performed really outstanding in almost every sphere and every module of Datadog is really good. One of the cool feature is calculating SLA and SLO, based on that you can setup even alerting and notification.

The area where it didn't perform well is synthetic monitoring private agent to monitor SSO application as it's failed to captured metrics due to limitation and bugs.
Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is best suited for monitoring web applications. One will be able to monitor all the components be it infrastructure monitoring for servers or application or end user monitoring, all can be achieved though installation of a single agent on your server. Only drawback is that you need to have root access to the server to onboard a server to datadog.
September 22, 2022

The APM tool you'll love

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you want to get the most insightful data from your infrastructure, and being able to take one dashboard which is easily understandable by engineers and managers, then Datadog should be your way to go.
Dmitry Pashkevich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're a cloud-based software company, you should use Datadog, period. They're a strong leader in the space for a reason. Datadog will scale with your company's data needs, and if there's something it can't do today, it probably will in the next few months or a year. It might be an overkill if your product/business is very small.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Datadog is a no-brainer for any environment that relies on multiple servers. Even for one server, it's so much better to use for monitoring and alert capability than anything else I remember looking at before we started using Datadog. Teams can even use it to track their progress of investigating an alert so multiple people aren't unknowingly looking into the same exact issue unnecessarily.
March 09, 2019

Datadog Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For organizations that understand and require the value-add of Datadog, it's a great choice for log management, APM, and system visibility. Because of its costs, it's not well suited to smaller organizations, or organizations running lots of small workloads on inexpensive VMs, where you are stuck paying the same price that an organization would pay for a server 100x the size.
Gabriel Samaroo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
November 23, 2018

DataDog at Wayfair!

Anthony Zappala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DataDog is well suited for an environment that requires low-level investment on supporting infrastructure, a cloud-based approach or something that is priced at a fair enough level where you can grow the business with your footprint without sacrificing on features.
August 04, 2018

Datadog tool

Rahul Narula | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Datadog to send Hystrix metrics of various service there and had setup various monitors and alerts which alerts on any underlying issue ahead of time before a major failure. Also created a dashboard quite similar to Hystrix Dashboard with ability to look back in time. It has worked well for us.
Girivaru Tarun | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Kevin Van Heusen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Datadog is the best application we have come across for displaying website and server metrics as well as alerts. Datadog can consume events from a whole host of systems and configure alerts when issues appear. Datadog has both Windows and Linux support, so it can handle posting metrics from pretty much any server.
February 15, 2017

All the DevOpsy things

Deepshikha Gandhi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Datadog fits your use case perfectly if you're writing, testing and running applications generating huge amounts of data and want a way to view this information graphically. Datadog has valuable features like sharable dashboards, Slack integration, CloudWatch integration and alerting. It might be less appropriate for monitoring system and process level metrics. It can certainly do those but there are other tools out there like Zabbix, Nagios and Icinga.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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