Datadog - a powerful all inclusive tool
May 14, 2025

Datadog - a powerful all inclusive tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Datadog is used as a monitoring and observability platform to gain real-time insights into performance, health, and errors within our infrastructure. We use infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, database monitoring, and real user monitoring on a daily basis to check the status of our web and mobile applications. Datadog integration is at the front of any new application that we build and use.

Pros

  • Unified monitoring - it is easy to find errors and issues from the database all the way to the user experience and vice versa.
  • Easy integration - set up was quick and painless and there are many out of the box integrations that require just a few button clicks.
  • Dashboards/monitoring - easy to build complex monitors and dashboards to account for the smallest of details.

Cons

  • Pricing - pricing is complex and can become expensive if you don't keep an eye on it.
  • Logs - equally as complex and not easy to manage when you have high log volume.
  • Mobile app - hard to use and doesn't have a lot of items.
  • Improved service reliability with database monitoring and the ability to relate the queries back to specific applications.
  • Better observability into frontend based applications.
  • Potential for high costs.
Datadog does very well with the amount of products and integrations it offers, but lacks in intuitiveness in certain places. One of these places is setting up monitors and alerts - there's almost too many options which results in confusion or some understanding gaps. However, this is balanced with the ability to see issues from the database all the way to the user.
Datadog is an all in one solution. It has everything in one place so you don't have to go from application to application and try to figure out what exactly happened. No more stitching database errors from one third party to backend errors in another to front end errors in another. It's all in one place.

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

Datadog is great on modern applications and will serve users well when adding monitoring, logging, and other integrations into these applications. Datadog is not as easy on legacy (or monolith) applications that have years of tech debt. These older, monolithic applications are often hard for engineers to work with, so adding in modern monitoring solutions into something that is already challenging is a challenge itself.

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