single stop for debugging, viewing logs, monitoring your applications
What do you like best about the product?
I use to use prometheus, zipkin, and kibana to debug through issues for any environment other than local, and it was honestly confusing and annoying to go through each tool to figure out what the issue was with an application. DataDog is SO nice when it comes to this. It's basically all three applications merged into one, but better, faster, cleaner, and SO MUCH easier when looking through logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think originally there was a mini learning curve because there are a lot of tools in DataDog, but it was very easy to pick up. Nothing you can't learn from googling and watching a quick youtube video.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When it comes to figuring out bugs, why something is failing, DataDog is my go-to tool. Things I never understood with Zipkin made much more sense with DataDog -- it's very user-friendly. It's quick to filter a service or specific services, environments, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I definitely recommend using DataDog -- much easier to debug through issues for any environment.