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Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 2000, Windows 8, Windows 10About Datadog
Datadog is a network monitoring tool that helps companies gain visibility into application performance. The software provides an overview of a product to a single SQL query and correlates app performance or errors with infrastructure metrics and events.
Datadog can help identify performance bottlenecks in code or infrastructure, and monitors hosts or containers. The platform can automatically trace requests across multiple libraries and frameworks, and enables auto-instrumentation to collect spans from frontend to backend. It collects performance data from infrastructure components like Redis and Elasticsearch, and offers integrations with web frameworks like Django, Ruby on Rails and Gin.
Datadog provides real- time dashboards with mix-and-match metr...
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Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 2000, Windows 8, Windows 10Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
September 2019
Mauricio from Thirdlove
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Retail
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2019
Great platform for logs analysis and cloud monitoring
Choosing to use Datadog made my work so much easier to accomplish. The logs analysis is one of the best thing that I can have in order to monitor my projects performance and health. This tool performs well and it is really useful. Real time logging works well. Definitely a must have.
Pros
I think that the best features that Datadog has is that you can track and follow logs in real time, something really important to have if your project is live. I like the idea of creating custom views of sets of logs (with custom filters, data parsing and a lot more) and that you can share them with your team.
Cons
It is a bit complicated to set for the first time. Is not quite easy to use or know at first about all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky and can be a blocker sometimes. Following that, if your fields are not mapped in the right way, filters are not that useful.
August 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2019
Analytics tool which helps customers and users always get the product you want them to get
Overall, having Datadog monitor our apps' performance and customers/users' pain points is invaluable. It's an amazing tool which lets us identify bottlenecks and better serve our users. Although the initial learning curve of utilizing Datadog's plethora of data analytics tools is steep, it's well worth the effort and price as there is much value to the metrics Datadog provides.
Pros
Datadog is probably one of the most notable analytics tool out there for large companies. It's easy to track users' flow in terms of what routes they're hitting, when they hit a snag and 404, or other metrics like how performant certain requests are which allows us to identify bottlenecks and get rid of them immediately.
Cons
There is a steep learning curve I will say with this software and needs an expert to help lead tutorials or sessions to get the ball rolling with new tool users. Although there are many built in functionalities and easily customizable features, it can be overwhelming and hard to pinpoint exactly what type of analytics you're looking for. It's one of those softwares where you have to play around with it to get the stars to align and find a model or metric that works best for your customers and use cases.
Reasons for Choosing Datadog
Datadog seemed to be more data intensive and specifically geared towards products like ours which really relied on app throughput, performance, and availability. Getting our product straight to the user, in a quick and efficient manner, is our priority and Datadog helps clear any blockers or issues that gets in the way of that.
December 2020
Craig from NewChurchTek Pty Ltd
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
1.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
2.0
Functionality
3.0
December 2020
Couldn't install
If you can get it running I am sure it's good.
Pros
Looks like it should do the job, less log limits than other products.
Cons
Spent days trying to get it working on a pretty vanilla Windows VM but never could get it up and running. Support pretty much just told me to read the documentation which wasn't really helpful after going over it ten times already. Had similar problem with another product and they could tell me the exact lines of the config and registry that needed changing.
Reasons for Switching to Datadog
Price
September 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Functionality
5.0
September 2020
A robust, but complicated tool.
We primarily use DataDog as a monitoring and communication tool. Alerts are sent out daily to a wide variety of users and non-users to keep them up to date on what is happening, when it happened and when it was recovered.
Pros
It has a great UI feature. It offers a variety of integrations with other third party software. Communication e-mail reports are valuable, even to non-users of the tool.
Cons
It can get very expensive to use and can be extremely complicated to use. There is a steep learning curve to try to get users up to speed with the needed functionality of the tool.
October 2019
Ankush from zendesk
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
5.0
October 2019
Datadog Review
Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would have been great if it had great learning resources to explore it more.
Pros
- The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards. - Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval. - It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs. -
Cons
- A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs. - UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps.
Reasons for Switching to Datadog
Splunk is very competitive too, Splunk's free version only allows one user. Also paid version of splunk is bit expensive and doesn't have many variations of paid version. Creating/Customizing your dashboards could be bit hard in Splunk, unlike Datadog which allows you to do it easily.