Item: Datadog
Rating: 8
Author: Girivaru Tarun

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 and Cons

Monitors resource metrics well
always prompt
simple UI
customizations available for metric visualization

no Oracle integration
increased data retention of metrics
Support for more custom intergrations like Kubernetes etc.
go easy on pricing a bit!

Return on Investment

Good user managment
Monitor to any level
Provide good insights to catering customers

Alternatives Considered

Opsview Enterprise and Nagios

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
OpsView - Datadog has simple UI, not much maintaince required
Nagios - Datadog has more admin capabilities and better user experince makes montioring easy

Though we use Sensu and Nagios as well additonally

Other Software Used

Nagios, Splunk Enterprise, Opsview Enterprise

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.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog