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worked with datadog using its postgres monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
easy to use cloud based web app, pretty simple integration into your environment, most of the basic postgres metrics are obtained
What do you dislike about the product?
cloud based only, wished it ran on-premise
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
datadog is easy to recommend to customers that want to run this sort of metrics/monitoring on the cloud in a pay-as-you-go service, easy to use, great user interface
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A very user-friendly product
What do you like best about the product?
It is really easy to setup, the UI is clean and very user-friendly. If you have been using a StatsD / Grafana setup you will be delighted by the ease of use.
You can also set alerts that are triggered when a metric reach a certain value which is really useful.
There are also lots of plugins to automatically fetch metrics from databases, message queues, CPU, etc.
Setting up all these services on you own would be very time-consuming.
You can also set alerts that are triggered when a metric reach a certain value which is really useful.
There are also lots of plugins to automatically fetch metrics from databases, message queues, CPU, etc.
Setting up all these services on you own would be very time-consuming.
What do you dislike about the product?
Once we migrated all our servers to an other host. Due to the migration, we ended up paying twice the price for two or three month as we forgot to disable the Datadog agents on our old servers.
So be careful and ask for information if you are hosting your applications on cloud servers and are using lots of short-time instances, it might be very expensive.
Also the documentation states that only 100 metrics are allowed per host, which can be very low depending on the type and number of applications running on your hosts.
In practice, we where sending more than 100 metrics per host and did not have any issues.
The UI is very good. The only thing was that it was not very convenient to change the scale of the vertical axis of a graph.
So be careful and ask for information if you are hosting your applications on cloud servers and are using lots of short-time instances, it might be very expensive.
Also the documentation states that only 100 metrics are allowed per host, which can be very low depending on the type and number of applications running on your hosts.
In practice, we where sending more than 100 metrics per host and did not have any issues.
The UI is very good. The only thing was that it was not very convenient to change the scale of the vertical axis of a graph.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog allowed us to avoid setting up a StatsD / Graphite / Grafana environment which would have been time-consuming.
Powerful and flexible MaaS solution
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog provide many different integrations "out of the box", and it is easy to create custom ones using the API.
What do you dislike about the product?
The website could be more mobile/tablet friendly. It would also be great if there was a mobile app for monitoring metrics and alerts while on the road.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog has allowed us to add extensive additional monitoring of our web-based application, as well as advanced monitoring of custom Oracle database metrics via the Datadog API.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Datadog pricing was a key factor in our consideration. Calculate your estimated usage to see how it compares to other solutions.
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