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Datadog Can Lead the Pack
September 25, 2018

Datadog Can Lead the Pack

Stephen Groat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Datadog is currently used by the Operations departments (DevOps and ProdOps) to monitor application performance, create dashboards to analyze the performance in real time when trying to debug issues, and trigger alerts in situations where manual intervention is needed. As a cloud-centric product, Datadog fits well into the organization and has very low operational overhead.
  • Monitoring application performance
  • Easy to read and modify dashboards
  • Lightweight agent on machines
  • Speed/performance of monitoring agents (reducing delays)
  • Easier configuration of alerts (including moving averages, etc. so that the math becomes easier)
  • Improved security (custom certificates, pinning, etc.)
  • Improved monitoring capability has lead to reduced downtime.
  • Historical performance searching capability has decreased debug times.
  • Graphing options has lead to decreased report generation times.
New Relic APM is a great application performance monitoring tool, but the agent was producing an increased load on our system compared to Datadog. Datadog also gives the flexibility of going outside of the boundaries of the application and looking at system performance as well, which can have a large impact on application performance.
Datadog is very well suited for cloud-centric customers that are looking for an agent-based performance monitoring solution. While a lot of configuration and work must be done to turn Datadog into a true application monitoring and performance solution, the flexibility that the tool offers is great for organizations with creative engineers. The price and configuration can be very "right" for this solution.