Item: Datadog
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a number of various layers and integrations such as front ends, middleware, micro services, backends and databases. Datadog has allowed us to integrate monitoring across all these various systems. This helps us in many ways, particularly in tracking down which pieces are effected by problems, often to find the root of the problem. Performance bottlenecks also become much easier to find, by having one centralized monitoring solution. The visualizations we've been able to build provide a much appreciated way for even less technical people to understand.

Pros and Cons

Pros

High level monitoring of various our connected systems
Examining the very low level details of each individual system
Starting at the top level and "drilling" down deep, level by level.

Cons

Initial login shows many, many menu options. It can be daunting to know where to start.
Having a way to see which menu items are in use, or have data to "see" could help me find things my coworkers have set up.
Maybe "News" feed, a way to have "new data resources" that have been added by myself or my coworkers?

Return on Investment

We've been able to phase out other monitoring tools, I'm not sure what the cost comparison would be. But it certainly makes life easier and saves me time to be able to monitor everything in one web portal. We have some other monitoring systems we will keep in place for various reasons, but will use them less and less as we get more familiar with Datadog what the new things we can do with it.

Usability

The only downside I've experienced so far is the overwhelm from all the possible options. So many menu items and I'm still learning things from the very beginning.

Alternatives Considered

New Relic, AWS CloudTrail and Sentry

We've completely replaced New Relic with Datadog and find it easier to use and more comprehensive. Our AWS and Sentry usage will continue for now. But Datadog gives us a much broader coverage - we can monitor our AWS services and many other services that interact with them. Also, Datadog allows users who don't have access to our AWS system to check performance stats and systems statuses.

Key Insights

Do you think Datadog delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Datadog's feature set?

Yes

Did Datadog live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Datadog go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Datadog again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Maybe it might not be appropriate for organizations that don't have much to monitor. It certainly seems ideal for any cases where there are various systems with logging and performance stats coming from different places, and in different forms. This has been especially helpful for us with the systems that are interconnected.

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