An honest Datadog review

I think Datadog is usable once you get the hang of it. It is such a powerful tool that you need to understand where you are and what are the possible options that are available to you before you can start to rock with it. I mean, the Monitor creation is quite easy once you understand the web page and the formula field. The APM is easy to set up once you read some of the Datadog documentation and create your first APM. And these two are already very important and helpful to have in place as they provide the right information to your NOC/SOC team about a problem, which then the team can use to drill down to history data to understand why the monitor was triggered. This helps a lot to create discussions and root cause the issue. I love it.

Datadog is well suited for cloud infrastructure monitoring, where you can create monitors to track the health of cloud resources and if the monitor is triggered you can then notify different teams like your NOC/SOC team. Another case were Datadog is well suited is for APM (Application Performance Monitor) where you can create SaaS platform checks and use Datadog edge servers to execute them for you, testing latency, performance, and finding problems on different regions.
Now, the use cases were Datadog is less appropriate is for Log Management, as the retention of logs and the creation of log indexes can consume a lot of money in a short period of time. So if you are not aware of it, consider this as food for thought!