Datadog is a great product to gain visibility into your systems
July 05, 2025

Datadog is a great product to gain visibility into your systems

Todd Burkholder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

Datadog is used to provide detailed insight into our infrastructure and Saas applications across multiple environments. It is a single interface that brings all our data together into a combined view and allows us to analyze, troubleshoot, and monitor our systems both in production and other environments. We have recently added several of Datadog's security tools, which have enhanced our overall security posture and helped us improve how we manage security on our systems.

Pros

  • Correlate logs across multiple systems and technology
  • Provide tools for querying and analyzing logs
  • Combine infrastructure and application information into a single related view
  • Pull information from AWS and display it in meaningful dashboards

Cons

  • With all the information that Datadog gathers, you can sometimes get lost in a breadcrumb of screens as you drill into information.
  • Understanding how Datadog can impact your cloud costs by the extra load and queries it performs could be improved and made more transparent.
  • This has improved the developer experience in troubleshooting issues, resulting in quicker resolutions and a better understanding of the root problem.
Generally Datadog has an intuitive interface and it is easy to navigate around. However given the complexity of all the options it provides, there can be times where you get lost or you are unable to determine how to achieve your goals.
We moved to Datadog from Microsoft's Application Insights. Application Insights did a fine job in allowing us to view our application data, but it lacked the holistic view of all our infrastructure and other platforms that could not use Application Insights. Being able to bring all our systems and data together into a single service has greatly improve our ability to use that data.

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 shines in analyzing application logs. By taking multiple logs and combining the data together into a single "flow", it makes it easy to understand how user actions and data flow through the system.

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