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Datadog the best dog for patroling
February 22, 2024

Datadog the best dog for patroling

Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

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 infrastructure, addressing various use cases such as identifying latency in applications, databases, and networks. The ability to pick and correlate small metrics proved valuable in enhancing user experience and achieving a better Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).


  • Application performance monitoring which is related to collecting traces in the application
  • Synthetic monitoring which is really cool feature of record and play with prior no programming knowledge is needed
  • Notebook where you can share the documents, SOP or any kind of documentation or notes with your team
  • Synthetic agent for private location as they have bug and this agents can't handle SSO
  • Also in synthetic monitoring while recording scenario everytime you have to go for incognito mode as there are some issue related to cache.
  • Database monitoring need some improvement in terms of monitoring oracle based databases
  • As mentioned earlier the positive impact was low downtime and better visibility
  • Second thing it has improved MTTR mean time to resolution
  • Third correlating the traces of backend and frontend with the help of tagging is really beneficial helps alot in terms of troubleshooting
The first reason for selecting Datadog was of course it's pricing which is quite better in terms of competitor like AppDynamics and splunk. Second thing is versatile services which they are offering on one platform which means entire end to end services can be monitor at one platform that too with ease.

Do you think Datadog delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Datadog's feature set?

Yes

Did Datadog live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Datadog go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Datadog again?

Yes

AppDynamics, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Dynatrace
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.