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Amazingly easy to setup
What do you like best about the product?
Its super easy to setup and start monitoring your system/clusters. The Infrastructure Host map and dashboards are impressive and give a quick overview of your "Health Dashboard" to be able to diagnose the issue with a server/cluster and quickly fix it. The "Events" tab gives a quick overview of all the "state" changes that occurred during the given time - period so that we have a time series trend to look at. Also the priority of an event can be changed/raised to be able to quickly take an action.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up Monitoring/Alerts is a bit non - intuitive to begin with. It takes a bit of understanding to be able to configure the alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring custom Dashboards with multiple integrations and API access make it easy to quickly visualize the cluster health and operations. The Integrated Dashboards which come pre-populated with critical metrics are a great feature to quickly start monitoring your cluster.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is definitely good value for money. It is a cheap alternative to start on a month-to-month basis to evaluate the product before being able to make an annual commitment.
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Good for monitoring!
What do you like best about the product?
we were using datadog software for monitoring purpose for doing a health check of all the services instances running on the cloud. It gave us a good exposure and notified us in a QuickTime for any failures!
What do you dislike about the product?
Based on my knowledge, sending a notification on email having a delay than the runtime text notification. We relied on texts to get a quick update on any failures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
5 9's availability of services to the customers!
Awesome for keeping an eye on all your virtual machines
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to install and get running on Ubuntu servers
What do you dislike about the product?
APM product is really new, and definitely not on par with what New Relic has to offer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility into general system health on linux cloud virtual machines. Monitoring disk, network, compute and memory resources.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Always free to start off with a few machines and experience it before signing a contract.
Datadog, an easy to setup and use counter/dashboard service
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to setup and use in the code, a couple lines code calling Datadog library you would be able to use it as a fairly scalable and handy counter service
- Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters
- Has built-in alerting/notification functionality which can also be configured from the UI
- Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters
- Has built-in alerting/notification functionality which can also be configured from the UI
What do you dislike about the product?
- Nothing in particular, but one thing is, the more data you have, the slower response Datadog service will become, when you query the service, query a specific counter, as well as when the counter contains high dimensional data, which is normal, we haven't yet tested what is the upper limit for how much data it can decently handle, but it should be enough for small to mid size company
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
use it as a handy counter service, mostly for engineering, to track query per second, system load, memory available, etc...
Easy to send metrics hard to view them
What do you like best about the product?
I find that its very easy to log errors and other metrics to Datadog but trying to view that data is not as easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to find the data you're looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Error logging, event count
really good monitoring and alerting tool
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that it has out-of-the-box integrations with a wide variety of platforms
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to understand and configure complex alerting rules
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to create alerts on very custom metrics that monitor the health of our systems
Datadog is my server messenger
What do you like best about the product?
Many features like Dashboard customisations, managing monitors, events, alerts . and also Datadog has an easy integration through his API
What do you dislike about the product?
Metrics infrastructures needs more improvements in term of functionalities
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Datadog to monitor and logging our servers for any possible bug or miss functionality.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its really easy for personalisation, i would gladly recommend it
Real time monitoring made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Sending metrics in statsd is pretty simple and straightforward. Datadog does a great job reliably parsing tags and helps get to the root cause of any problem easily
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much really. Datadog is pretty good at what it does
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Site reliability monitoring
Easy-to-use and Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
The data visualization features and API integrations are fantastic. The product is also incredibly easy to use and
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's clunky to create the exact filters for data you're looking for, but overall I don't have much to complain about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use DataDog to display data from within the company, and DataDog's API is well designed and easy to use. We've been able to see results quickly, which increases our ability to be more productive
Versatile tool, would love better wallboard support
What do you like best about the product?
* VERY flexible, you can track pretty much any metric
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
* The datadog agent eats a bit too much memory
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a robust, versatile solution to track a variety of metrics like number of errors, load and response times, job execution stats, db connection usage, track runs of scheduled tasks etc. Datadog allowed us to implement all of that with one tool, and in a way that we don't have to change the code to change the representation of data. It's a great tool to track the health and performance of your services.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I haven't used many alternatives, but Datadog seems like a great versatile tool. Adding new metrics and creating new dashboards is fairly easy, Datadog will do all the hard work.
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
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