Possibly best on the market
May 13, 2025
Possibly best on the market
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Datadog
We use Datadog primarily for monitoring and alerting, and debugging issues by viewing logs and traces.
Having several environments we need to look through logs often on Datadog to debug and understand where issues are coming from. Whether it be metrics related to kubernetes or logs from our actual services.
Monitoring and alerting is set up with SLOs to keep track of service health, following the software catalogue map of dependancies and traces/logs to root cause potential issues.
Having several environments we need to look through logs often on Datadog to debug and understand where issues are coming from. Whether it be metrics related to kubernetes or logs from our actual services.
Monitoring and alerting is set up with SLOs to keep track of service health, following the software catalogue map of dependancies and traces/logs to root cause potential issues.
Pros
- UI/UX of searching for logs/traces/general navigation
- Features integrating with various infrastructure components including details kubernetes metrics
- Dependancy graphs to show connections between services making it easy to figure out how systems are connected and what affects what and how
- Granularity of errors and causes
Cons
- Terraform intergration/documentation
- Cleaner way to handle several monitors/alerts
- Small thing but viewing larger time ranges without having to move a window around
- Alerting before real problems can arise
- Quicker debugging of issues and root causing
- High cost makes cost optimizing more important
Dynatrace was cheaper but, in my opinion, its setup, features, and overall user experience do not come close to what Datadog can offer, making it more of a pain to use and not worth the cheaper cost over Datadog (especially if migrating away from Datadog to Dynatrace).
Grafana/Prometheus stack requires a lot more engineering effort to set up well which is not something we wanted to invest that much time into.
Grafana/Prometheus stack requires a lot more engineering effort to set up well which is not something we wanted to invest that much time into.
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?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Datadog again?
Yes
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