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What Is Datadog?

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides AI-powered code-level distributed tracing from browser and mobile applications to backend services and databases. By seamlessly correlating traces with logs, metrics, real user monitoring (RUM) data, security signals, and other telemetry, Datadog APM enables you to detect and resolve root causes faster, improve application performance and security posture, optimize resource consumption, and collaborate more effectively to deliver the best user experience possible.

Who Uses Datadog?

Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age.

Where can Datadog be deployed?

Cloud-based
On-premise

About the vendor

  • Datadog
  • Founded in 2010

Datadog support

  • Phone Support
  • Chat

Countries available

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada and 33 others

Languages

English, Japanese

Datadog pricing

Starting Price:

US$15.00/month
  • Yes, has free trial
  • Yes, has free version

Datadog has a free version and offers a free trial. Datadog paid version starts at US$15.00/month.

Pricing plans get a free trial

About the vendor

  • Datadog
  • Founded in 2010

Datadog support

  • Phone Support
  • Chat

Countries available

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada and 33 others

Languages

English, Japanese

Datadog videos and images

Datadog Software - Datadog's infrastructure overview
Datadog Software - Datadog's Logging without Limits product
Datadog Software - Datadog's network dashboard
Datadog Software - Datadog’s SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring
Datadog Software - Datadog APM provides end-to-end distributed tracing from frontend devices to databases- with no sampling.
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Datadog Software - Datadog's infrastructure overview
Datadog Software - Datadog's Logging without Limits product
Datadog Software - Datadog's network dashboard
Datadog Software - Datadog’s SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring
Datadog Software - Datadog APM provides end-to-end distributed tracing from frontend devices to databases- with no sampling.

Features of Datadog

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Application Security
  • Archiving & Retention
  • Asset Tracking Software
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Availability Testing
  • Baseline Manager
  • Capacity Analytics
  • Capacity Management
  • Capacity Planning Software
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Communications Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Content Management System (CMS) Software
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration Software
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Dashboard Software
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Collection Software
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Migration
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Visualization Software
  • Debugging
  • Device Auto Discovery
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Drag & Drop
  • Event Logs
  • High Volume Processing
  • Historical Trend Analysis
  • IT Monitoring
  • IT, Server & Network Monitoring Software
  • Incident Management Software
  • Incident Reporting
  • Investigation Management Software
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Log Access
  • Log Analysis
  • Log Collection
  • Log Management Software
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Network Analysis
  • Network Monitoring Software
  • Network Provisioning
  • Pattern Detection and Recognition
  • Performance Analysis
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Policy Management Software
  • Predictive Analytics Software
  • Prioritization
  • Process/Workflow Automation
  • Query Analysis
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Resource Management Software
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Search/Filter
  • Server Logs
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
  • Status Tracking
  • Task Management Software
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Response
  • Threshold Alerts
  • Trend Analysis
  • Troubleshooting
  • Uptime Reporting
  • Virtual Machine Monitoring
  • Visual Analytics
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web Traffic Reporting
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Analytics
  • Workflow Management Software

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Reviews of Datadog

Average score

Overall
4.6
Ease of Use
4.2
Customer Service
4.2
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.1

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Shayla
Shayla
Human Resources Specialist in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Using Datadog to guarantee bug-free software

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: It's an intuitive program that provides users with comprehensive records of all recent actions. Displays success or failure of the process. If the attempt fails, identify the faulty stage. It explains everything from beginning to conclusion.

Pros:

All of Datadog's basic building blocks are top-notch. Their data ingestion is lightning fast and (usually) dependable, their graph widget is adaptable and usable in a wide variety of contexts, and they have a good track record of introducing products that combine these features.

Cons:

Our experiences with Datadog support have been continuously negative; the company goes out of its way to avoid direct communication and offers irrelevant answers.

Henry
Head of Engineering in Malaysia
Financial Services Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great & rich centralized observability tool that just works!

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I've used Datadog for several years now. It is my go-to observability tool. I'd highly recommend it to anyone.

Pros:

- Centralized observability - Rich features, covering end-to-end stack - Good UI/UX experience - Rich integration with other libraries and frameworks - Reliability and scalability

Cons:

- The pricing model is too rigid. It can be expensive when you have the scale. - The pricing model can be too complicated to understand - No startup or credits offering

Alternatives Considered: Grafana, Elastic, New Relic and Honeycomb

Reasons for Switching to Datadog: - Centralized observability - Rich integration - Serverless and little overhead

Minh
Swe in Singapore
Internet, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Review datadog

2.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Average log for enterprise. Pricey but does the work

Pros:

Good for searching logs. Can capture log in real time

Cons:

Hard to search for logs. Too many configurations

Peter
Site Reliability Engineer in US
Real Estate, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Effective Monitoring Solution

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall, Datadog gets the job done. Through APM, tracing, infrastucture metrics and log explorer, I’m able to triage my incidents effectively. The Watchdog product is also super convenient. Its able to general catch issues/changes that may impact your business. Its very useful especially when/if you’re missing some alerts that were not accounted for.

Pros:

The UI and UX is intuitive for the most part.

Cons:

Depending on the product being used, UI can be alittle overwhelming and complex.

Alternatives Considered: New Relic

Reasons for Switching to Datadog: At the time, cost reduction and we ended up getting more value from it.

Jesus Alberto
Staff Platform Engineer in Australia
Logistics & Supply Chain, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Staff platform engineer

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It has been great, you guys rock, keep delivering good features. I would like to see more around Networking but pricing is complicated ;-)

Pros:

The support from Datadog team along the year to tackle bugs and also beta testing new products and providing feedback

Cons:

The fact that we need a PhD to be able to understand Datadog pricing model XD

Bradley
Platform Engineer in US
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The Best in the Business

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Datadog is fantastic. Expensive, but fantastic.

Pros:

The easy of visualizeation and searching vs any other platform.

Cons:

Navigating is difficult, it relies on you memorizing icon means what, or what dropdown a service falls under.

Mateusz
Software Engeneer in Poland
Hospital & Health Care, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Monitoring machine

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

A powerhouse of a tool for monitoring every bit of application stack, infrastructure, state of business

Cons:

A lot of options and functions sometimes makes it hard to find the one you need

Phuc
Software Developer in Singapore
Financial Services Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Happy switch from ELK to Datadog, and more

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall, I am happy with it. The transition from ELK stack to Datadog feels intuitive.

Pros:

Everything is packed into one platform, that makes it the single point when it comes to monitoring.

Cons:

Support for Maven and Gradle is not so great. It doesn't really know how to check for actual dependency versions used in my project.

Orlando
DevOps Engineer in Switzerland
Telecommunications, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great featureset

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Good experience. Quite easy to configure.

Pros:

APM, the wide range of available features.

Cons:

The UI can be a bit sluggish/slow at times. Can be pricy

Nishiket
Software Engineer in India
Accounting Software, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

DataDog Suggestion from Software Engineer

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Tracing is awesome. With the help of Trace attribute i can track every method call.

Cons:

Takes more storage/memory in the dll with respect to new reli*

Aaron
Director of Technology Services in US
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great Product

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I've been a user at multiple companies for years. Each one I championed integration and management was quickly happy with the ROI.

Pros:

One-stop shop for logs and infrastructure status

Cons:

Hard to teach new users where to find things at times. Especially with Monitors.

Jack
SRE in US
Human Resources, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Excellent solutions that need some more explaining

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

All-in-one out of the box solutions for observability

Cons:

Documentation is lacking in certain APIs. Specifically, the python SDK seems to have features that aren't mentioned in the documentation for dashboards. The widgets are able to accept **kwargs that exist in the JSON definition in the dashboards, but not in the documentation

Anthony
QA Engineer in UK
Financial Services Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great tool

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: It's been a very positive experience and had the opportunity to join a webinar organised by Datadog

Pros:

Based on how it is set up and connected you can find all your logs in one place.

Cons:

no cons I can think of at the minute as it meets our needs

Huong
Technical Lead in Vietnam
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

I love DataDog

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I've just use Datadog nearly a year and I really love it, it helps me to keep track and integrate easier with other 3rd parties like Seri Log. I can receive notification about my application via email/slack, it's very useful

Pros:

Trace, Log, Notification, DataDog RUM, Error Tracking

Cons:

Monitor, Performance Monitoring, DataDog Log for Front End (React)

Niharika
Sr. DevOps Engineer in US
Financial Services Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog review for Fintech

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Creation of custom dashboards. Event tracing is easier to debug by developers.

Cons:

Login is bit of a hassle. Have to go through SSO every single time.

Terence
Technical Support Specialist in Canada
Information Technology & Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog the standard of logs

5.0 last month New

Comments: Overall, datadog is a good tool that I use within our organization's tool stack to look at logs to identify issues and troubleshoot for our customers.

Pros:

The dashboard in datadog is very customizable, allowing me to view metrics and logs to my preference. This in my opinion, allows me to work very efficiently. I also appreciate the alerting system as it helps me catch and identify problems.

Cons:

The learning curve was a bit hard to understand at first, as there was a lot of options at the start that makes it feel overwhelming.

Andrea
Senior software engineer in UK
Financial Services Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Complex but absolutely a must use

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Very pleased even if the learning curve is steep. Once on the top of the hill, however, you have swiss knife

Pros:

Exhaustive it covers almost every aspect of monitoring an application

Cons:

Documentation. Mastering the product is hard given it covers so many aspects. However documentation can be improved with more samples and easier doc navigation (it relies too much on blog samples)

Vinay
SDE in India
Financial Services Software, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog has been super helpful

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Dashboard and session logs all at one place is good thing to have, also the services listed and getting data around it is also good. Information of service like chart, logs, APIs are good as well

Cons:

Tracing logs can be made bit more simpler like the most useful resource columns should be added directly

Amit
SDE in India
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog review

4.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Reliability. Clean and intuitive user interface.

Cons:

Pricing. Also, the documentation is a bit confusing at times.

Omkar
Software Engineer
Financial Services Software, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

I like datadog

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Overall it is really good. With the LLM integrations it is even better

Pros:

Ease of searching through the entire logs generated by my apps

Cons:

There is nothing to dislike, I like the current features alot

Hafiz Syed Ashir
Software Engineer in Malaysia
Marketing & Advertising, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Usage experience for data streams with Datadog

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: One of the best tool as compared to others to use for logs. Easy to integrate and use.

Pros:

The efficiency and features of the tools, how quickly it can fetch logs and extensive search features.

Cons:

Sometimes, it become very difficult to get log of a particular data stream or single stream and need to search alot of logs. Plus, there should be a text feature so don't need to click each log or hover feature.

Naga S
Tech Lead in US
Accounting Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Intuitive Monitoring

5.0 2 months ago New

Pros:

Really good dashboards and insights. APM is my favorite

Cons:

Better UI with font and style could be useful.

Lucia
HR Manager in US
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Best Solution For IT Management

5.0 10 months ago

Pros:

It has amazing network monitoring and IT management features Setup and understanding it is easy.

Cons:

All smooth with Datadog. No serious concerns

Ayoub
IT Manager in France
Computer & Network Security, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Datadog: Effective Monitoring

5.0 last year

Pros:

Datadog offers comprehensive and user-friendly monitoring, analytics, and visualization tools, enabling efficient management of complex IT infrastructures.

Cons:

Pricing is on the expensive side. The documentation is too broad, adding to the complexity as a user.

Belen
Administrative in Spain
Consumer Electronics, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Datadog has been a lifesaver for keeping track of our servers and infrastructure.

5.0 4 months ago

Pros:

The dashboards and visualizations are top-notch, and the alerts have saved us from downtime.

Cons:

I wish the initial setup was more user-friendly, and the pricing can be a bit high.