Datadog Operator
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great tool for many purposes
What do you like best about the product?
great visualization and intuitive interface
What do you dislike about the product?
not enough customization capabilities for my needs to monitor several disparate data stores.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
monitoring/alerting/trending on performance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
understand what it can and can't do.
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
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
More friendly than analytics
What do you like best about the product?
I do like the easy to use interface and how simple it is to just get started.
What do you dislike about the product?
Im so used to google analytics, its really just a simple js insert and you're done. Data dog is a bit different.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is way more informative and precise, and thats really helpful
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I feel google analytics is the way to go.
Lots of high level insight, not much to drill down into
What do you like best about the product?
- The daily digest emails
- The quick systems overview
- Database performance overview
- The quick systems overview
- Database performance overview
What do you dislike about the product?
- Inability to get more context for a particular event to drill down into.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Website monitoring and consolidation of other monitoring services into one unified platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You still may need to rely on other data sources once you've integrated everything into Datadog.
A nice way to gather all data
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog has a nice UX. It's easy to pick up integration and start a configuration for your apps or services. Also, the support is really cool: you got an email on a regular basis from the Datadog team checking up if everything is ok. This is the kind of proactive support I like.
What do you dislike about the product?
During my trial, the web interface evolved completely. There was no new on-boarding, which was pretty confusing to me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was able to monitor several applications from my different providers. Datadog helped me to have a better vision across other triggers from different services.
Good but too much hassle
What do you like best about the product?
The dashboard and metrics are pretty ok.
What do you dislike about the product?
Agent installation is kind of a overhead. Unlike newrelic which integrates very easily as part of the deployment itself, here we need to install stuff manually / per machine. Moreover the agent file is huge.
The installation didn't went smooth for the first time.
Each integration should be done specifically. There is not single point of installation. too much hassle.
The installation didn't went smooth for the first time.
Each integration should be done specifically. There is not single point of installation. too much hassle.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am monitoring the application performance and errors coming up on production environment, being aware of the bottle necks and improvements points to do in the code.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If price is the issue, you can go for it. it's an OK value of money. no more than that.
Simple to setup, easy to monitor
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of setting up was what I appreciated the most. It was easy to setup with our automated deployment tools as well (Chef).
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very hard to use the freemium version of the tool without dodging countless sales people. Additionally, they shut-off your free account after so many days and force you yo speak to a sales person before you can get it enabled. Update: It also appears now there is a plan downgrade option to circumvent the call to sales. This was the biggest turn off to my evaluation of it. The other note here, is that we were looking for a self-hosted option due to security concerns. At the time, this was available with them but perhaps it has changed by now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance monitoring of several key applications that we host.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Beware the sales calls
A nice dog after all
What do you like best about the product?
* A very flexible monitor, you can track a lot of things (there are more than 100 possible integrations)
* Also a server health checker.
* Unbeatable custom dashboard creator: you can basically mix everything you want to track into a single dashboard without problems.
* Custom tracking stats: With it's powerful event-tracking API you can build your own statistics and gauges so you can measure what you really want to.
* Also a server health checker.
* Unbeatable custom dashboard creator: you can basically mix everything you want to track into a single dashboard without problems.
* Custom tracking stats: With it's powerful event-tracking API you can build your own statistics and gauges so you can measure what you really want to.
What do you dislike about the product?
* Steep learning curve: As powerful as it sounds, requires some level of skill to understand every aspect of the service and get the exact measurements you want. Datadog is huge.
* Some prebuilt alers were not working: this is a very subjective subject (hehe) since I might be caused this problem, I didn't give it enough research time.
* Partial service integration: Sure there are 100+ services to integrate with, but some of them only shows basic and somewhat trivial statistics, not so useful at first so you need to learn and implement your own statistics.
* Some prebuilt alers were not working: this is a very subjective subject (hehe) since I might be caused this problem, I didn't give it enough research time.
* Partial service integration: Sure there are 100+ services to integrate with, but some of them only shows basic and somewhat trivial statistics, not so useful at first so you need to learn and implement your own statistics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm monitoring 10+ servers with it. It's worth every penny and hour I used to learn Datadog. Every morning I turn on my terminal and the 3 custom dashboards show me what I want to see, I feel like a Matrix operator.
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