Datadog Great but expensive
May 13, 2025

Datadog Great but expensive

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Use Datadog for error tracking, along with insight management with logs and apm traces. Apm traces is really helpful with nodejs opentelemtry as it allows us to track each of the function calls associated with the lifecycle of a specific trace (say an http requests lifecycle) which helps debug easier.

Pros

  • APM Traces
  • Watchdog
  • Logs
  • Error states

Cons

  • Expensive
  • Lack of easy facet management
  • Hard to query certain values
  • Positive: Been able to debug issues a lot easier
  • Positive: Generally gives really good insights into all partso f our workload
  • Negative: Pricing can be quite expensive and can balloon a lot
It's generally pretty easy to use but I feel like the UI isn't immediately intuitive especially if you haven't worked with APM traces before. Like the view flame graph / waterfall stuff isn't immediately obvious how to get to it / trace something throughout the lifecycle of an associated span

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

Sentry might be better for something like error tracking honestly I feel like, because Datadog loses a lot of stack traces. Maybe this is a case of the Datadog client and / or agent not being that great at relaying the information from the originating context to the client to ingest.

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