Item: Datadog
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Datadog provides us valuable insights to metrics and trends that help us make informed decisions. We also heavily use logging, along with traces, which provides full context of the request in case something goes wrong, and helps to debug. Monitoring and alerting is another feature that we heavily rely on. Our pagerduty alerts are triggered by Datadog monitors.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Logging
Metrics
Dashboards and visualizations

Cons

Monitoring provides false alarms sometimes, so it could be tweaked
More examples on website for product usage e.g. query syntax
Visualization generation using AI

Return on Investment

Minimize downtime, by leveraging monitors
Error detection and resolution
Trends using visualizations

Usability

Datadog's user interface is quite friendly and easy to navigate. With menus clearly categorized, and ability to bookmark important dashboards, one can easily find what they're looking for. For dashboards, ability to move and resize visualizations and group them, is really helpful to organize dashboards. Automatic suggestions from Datadog for important visualizations based on the metrics and logs would provide another level of ease of use.

Alternatives Considered

Kibana and New Relic

Key Insights

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?

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

Datadog is a great tool for logging and metrics. It also provides out of the box dashboards for infrastructure e.g. Kubernetes. Based on the logs and metrics, various visualizations can be created and aggregated in dashboards, which provides valuable insights, and many of our key decisions are made based on the insights. Also, our alerts are leveraging Datadog monitors, which again, are based on logs and metrics.

Comments

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Great tool