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Comprehensive Monitoring Tool with Powerful Insights but High Costs
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Datadog is how seamlessly it brings together metrics, logs, and traces in one place. The dashboard is very intuitive, and it’s easy to set up real-time monitoring for applications and infrastructure. I also like how flexible it is — you can create custom dashboards, set alerts, and get deep visibility into performance issues quickly. It really helps in identifying bottlenecks before they impact users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside of Datadog is its pricing — it can get quite expensive as your infrastructure and data volume grow. Managing costs can be tricky, especially when you’re monitoring multiple environments. Also, the interface, while powerful, can feel a bit overwhelming at first due to the number of features and options available. It takes some time to get fully comfortable navigating everything.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog helps us monitor our entire system — from backend services and APIs to frontend performance — all in one place. It gives real-time visibility into logs, metrics, and traces, which makes it much easier to detect and troubleshoot issues quickly. Thanks to Datadog, we’ve reduced downtime, improved application performance, and gained better insights into how different parts of our system interact. It really helps our team stay proactive instead of reactive when it comes to performance and reliability.
Great Integration and Dashboards, but Pricing Is Unpredictable
What do you like best about the product?
Easy integration, power dashboards and visualization, smart alerts
What do you dislike about the product?
expensive and hard to predict cost, data retenntion and export limitation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Lack of Unified Observability
In modern environments, teams use dozens of tools—logs, metrics, traces, synthetic monitoring, network monitors, security scanners, etc.
Datadog consolidates metrics, logs, traces, security, and real-user monitoring in one place. This helps DevOps, SRE, security, and business teams collaborate with a single source of truth.
2. Troubleshooting is Hard and Slow
Distributed systems mean a single user action might trigger dozens of services.
Datadog provides distributed tracing, log correlation, and visualizations that allow you to trace requests end-to-end and pinpoint slow or broken parts of the system fast.
3. Cloud Complexity
Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) change constantly—instances spin up/down, containers come and go, etc.
Datadog offers real-time monitoring and auto-discovery to keep up with these ephemeral environments.
4. Siloed Teams & Tools
Dev, Ops, Security, and Business teams often use different tools and speak different "languages".
Datadog’s platform allows shared dashboards, alerts, and insights, helping teams align on problems and priorities.
5. Proactive Monitoring Instead of Reactive Firefighting
Teams often only react after customers are impacted.
In modern environments, teams use dozens of tools—logs, metrics, traces, synthetic monitoring, network monitors, security scanners, etc.
Datadog consolidates metrics, logs, traces, security, and real-user monitoring in one place. This helps DevOps, SRE, security, and business teams collaborate with a single source of truth.
2. Troubleshooting is Hard and Slow
Distributed systems mean a single user action might trigger dozens of services.
Datadog provides distributed tracing, log correlation, and visualizations that allow you to trace requests end-to-end and pinpoint slow or broken parts of the system fast.
3. Cloud Complexity
Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) change constantly—instances spin up/down, containers come and go, etc.
Datadog offers real-time monitoring and auto-discovery to keep up with these ephemeral environments.
4. Siloed Teams & Tools
Dev, Ops, Security, and Business teams often use different tools and speak different "languages".
Datadog’s platform allows shared dashboards, alerts, and insights, helping teams align on problems and priorities.
5. Proactive Monitoring Instead of Reactive Firefighting
Teams often only react after customers are impacted.
Datadog with best observability tool
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is very user-friendly, and the dashboard offers greater flexibility compared to other tools I have used. Implementation is straightforward and uncomplicated.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, based on my past experience, I have not encountered any drawbacks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog is very helpful for root cause analysis, and I find the dashboards particularly useful. They allow us to proactively monitor our servers and applications, making it easier to identify and address issues as they arise.
Datadog : All in one observability
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is excellent, and I appreciate the simplicity of the user experience. It offers full stack observability, allowing me to monitor both the technology stack and the application environment effectively. They have knowledge tech support and supports many third party integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything is up to date, and there is nothing more to add. The documentation is thorough, and there are clear paths available to troubleshoot any queries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog can help you identify and resolve application bugs. Sometimes, application teams are unsure about the exact location of a bug, which line is causing the application to fail, or where the failure rate is originating. They may also struggle to determine which endpoint is making the application slow. With Datadog, you can monitor all of these aspects in a single observability platform.
Reliable monitoring tool with powerful dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog provides an excellent all-in-one monitoring solution that gives complete visibility into infrastructure, applications, and logs. The customizable dashboards make it easy to track performance metrics in real time, and the alerting system ensures quick detection of issues. Its wide range of integrations with cloud services, databases, and tools makes it very flexible. The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate even for new users.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Datadog is very powerful, the pricing can become expensive for small or growing teams as costs increase with the number of metrics and hosts. The initial setup of dashboards and integrations can also feel overwhelming due to the wide range of features available. Additionally, some advanced queries require a learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog helps us monitor applications, servers, and cloud infrastructure in real time, which allows us to quickly detect and resolve performance issues before they impact end users. It centralizes logs, metrics, and traces in one platform, making troubleshooting much faster. The alerting system has reduced downtime and improved overall system reliability, while the dashboards give clear insights for both technical and business teams.
Positive
What do you like best about the product?
I love how intuitive the interface is to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Many companies can create similar tools internally
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is useful for evaluating kuberenete usage and llm evals
Monitoring and Incident Management
What do you like best about the product?
Great monitoring and visibility - nice to get alerted and replace PagerDuty
What do you dislike about the product?
Took a little while to get up to speed , but once setup it's great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring, alerting and our oncall services
Datadog product overview at Apple
What do you like best about the product?
Learning to use DataDog. I found the Dashboard a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but over time, it has become more natural.
What do you dislike about the product?
There a tons of options in the dashboard, is easy to get lost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are going to be doing more DevOps as developers, so having a observability and security turnkey solution will be very helpful to us.
Datadog - Observability Giant
What do you like best about the product?
The way it help provide the observability of the apps from infrasctructure , APM , Browser and with logs metrics and traces.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Way we write the Datadog query language. Ui can be a bit better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. APM Application observability
2. understanding logs and metrics and traces for the applications
3. Understanding the infrastrcuture cluster
2. understanding logs and metrics and traces for the applications
3. Understanding the infrastrcuture cluster
Datadog the best of all
What do you like best about the product?
Its unified in visibility across the whole tech stack
Its seamless in log management.
Has customized dashboards for better support.
Its seamless in log management.
Has customized dashboards for better support.
What do you dislike about the product?
very expensive to use.
its cluttered when dealing with bulky data.
its cluttered when dealing with bulky data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog allows servers, databases, and many other tools and services to be monitored across the IT landscape in real time. It will enable one to see the performance of applications and identify problems from a business perspective before they reach the user.
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