Unified Monitoring with Datadog
July 31, 2025

Unified Monitoring with Datadog

sai charan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Datadog

in my org, Datadog is used to for monitoring the application performance, and managing logs across different environments. we use this for tracking latency, throughput, and errors in our microservices. We use it for creating custom dashboards and alerts on deployments. also for monitoring cloud resources and Kubernetes clusters. this makes debugging faster and cross team interaction is smooth.

Pros

  • Tracking Microservice Performance
  • managing the logs
  • Monitors Cloud and Kubernetes
  • Speeds Up Debugging and dashboards

Cons

  • costing incerease based on the logs volume.
  • Creating monitors, dashboards, or logs requires some context on Datadog syntax.
  • role based access needs to be more granular if someone has larger team members
  • dashboards are making easier to find the pods going into crash loop due to memory issues
  • less time to debug and finding the RCA's
  • Increase the productivity of each developer.
I give it a 8 out of 10. As Once you're familiar with the platform, navigating between logs, traces, and metrics feels seamless, and it really speeds up troubleshooting. But, for the new users there is a bit of a learning needed. On how to Create monitors, writing queries, or setting up log pipelines. These requires some context on Datadog
we primarily use Kubernetes, and Prometheus is great for collecting time series metrics, especially in Kubernetes. and Grafana is used for dashboards. As these are open source, we host them and manage them internally. We choose Datadog because of its logs, traces, and alerting, where it adds value. Setting up Datadog is easier than Grafana.

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

It does a great job of monitoring our cloud infra and Kubernetes clusters, giving us a clear picture of system health. custom dashboards are also helpful for checking the key metrics during deployments. But, also need to improve in the costing, especially with large volumes of logs which makes it important to be selective about what data you log.

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