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Software Developer at AhnLab, Inc.
Vendor
The AWS version is not difficult to upgrade, but the on-premise version is
Pros and Cons
  • "I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
  • "The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."

What is our primary use case?

We use it to store editorial content.

We started out on the on-premise version, then moved to the AWS version.

What is most valuable?

I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version.

What needs improvement?

The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Software Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI
Pros and Cons
  • "Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
  • "It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
  • "Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
  • "The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
  • "​It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
  • "It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time."
  • "It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."

What is our primary use case?

We run the agent in AWS. 

How has it helped my organization?

It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system. Most of our platform organization is now involved in monitoring. Previously, only a handful of platform engineers were involved, because Graphite and Sensu were so cumbersome to use.

What is most valuable?

It is incredibly easy to do common monitoring actions:

  • Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI.
  • Using tags is very intuitive (in contrast to the cumbersome regex-like based querying in Graphite).
  • Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy. This is very important as the easier it is to create monitors, the more monitors will be created by people. With Graphite and Sensu, the effort required to create and test a monitor was so great that we had only a handful of monitors. We now have over 300 monitors.

What needs improvement?

  • It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors). 
  • It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time. 
  • It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Very rarely. Maybe only once or twice that we noticed. It is very reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

It is excellent. The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute. That is the "right" way to do support. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously ran Graphite and Sensu ourselves. By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore. Graphite was somewhat complex to run.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is easy. Install the agent and send it metrics. There are StatsD/Datadog libraries available for most languages.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure. It is hard to say without looking at all of this.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at several competitors at the time (Summer 2016). There did not seem to be any compelling alternatives. Once we did the PoC with Datadog, we loved it and decided to move forward.

What other advice do I have?

Try it out and see if you like it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user147573 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO with 51-200 employees
Vendor
We can build dashboards as fast we roll out new systems, which can be fast.
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
  • "More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."

How has it helped my organization?

We can build dashboards as fast we roll out new systems, which can be fast.

We use standard and custom metrics for every new system we roll out for 360 degree visibility into our systems.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request. We used PagerDuty integration for a while as well.

What needs improvement?

More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing.


What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There are infrequent hiccups, which have been decreasing over the time we have used it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Never seen better. Questions answered usually almost immediately, even on weekends. An in-stream with your event stream.

Technical Support:

High.

Overall they have always had an amazing team, and quality has been maintained as the company has grown.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Complementary to other tools we used.

How was the initial setup?

Setup is generally easy. They provide an large number of integrations, some are more complex than others, which is to be expected.

What about the implementation team?

In house implementation.

What was our ROI?

We didn’t calculate explicitly, but as we used the product to track down underutilized instances, it more than paid for itself in the first month.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing overall in this segment has standardized in the last several years.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

A few, including Zabbix and Icinga.

What other advice do I have?

One of the fastest and most flexible tools we have used in this area..

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it_user147570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer with 51-200 employees
Real User
The fact that its hosted so you don't have to rely on infrastructure to do the work is a very valuable feature.

What is most valuable?

The fact that its hosted so you don't have to rely on infrastructure to do the work is a very valuable feature.

How has it helped my organization?

At other places I've worked, we had to rely on different types of infrastructure -- Datadog does all that. Its very time saving. Datadog has alerting events and metrics all in one place; This was a huge plus, other solutions were trying to treat monitoring as a multi-faceted problem. Datadog treated it as one problem. Also, We no longer use Nagios for alerting, we use Datadog’s alarms, and then we push the data into PagerDuty.

What needs improvement?

The performance, especially when were drilling into metrics we've been running for a year and a half. When you're launching old data it can get slow.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for the last year and a half.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No serious issues with stability -- has been pretty great.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We pushed them sometimes, meaning when we would do something their platform didn't support. But they were always very cooperative and proactive.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: Very good customer service.Technical Support: Hit or miss, always very proactive and friendly but could be faster sometimes. Almost always have the right answer, but sometimes could be a bit quicker.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

At this job I've only used Datadog. Past jobs I've used New Relic, and assortment of others.

How was the initial setup?

Very straightforward. We got Datadog running in a couple of hours, and deployed it across our production environment, We just installed StatsD, started sending metrics, and it just worked. Deployment was super easy and their setup and integration made us feel like it wasn't a vendor lock-in.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Initial cost was a couple of days of work, day to day nothing really.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, we evaluated a bunch of option, including New Relic, as well as toying with the idea of hosting our own, a couple of others as well. We didn't want to manage our own, our corporate culture is to let other companies be the experts when possible. In the case of Datadog, the product exists -- made sense to let them be the experts.

What other advice do I have?

I'm an advocate of Datadog -- go for it.
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it_user147213 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Co-Founder with 51-200 employees
Vendor
I always have Datadog up to debug issues with integrations or to ensure that live campaigns are running smoothly.

We were building a real-time bidding exchange for digital out-of-home ads by providing the analytics and the infrastructure for the ecosystem. We not only facilitate the buys, but we also act as an ad server for the network and advertisers who put in their server requirements. It is very similar to the large online ad servers. In order to provide this real-time service, we had to be able to monitor and analyze a wide range of data points for the many media companies in their ad exchange. 

We wanted to find an “out-of-the-box” metrics solution that would integrate easily with current systems. We found that Datadog included the integrations that we needed to get our monitoring solution up quickly. Additionally, we liked Datadog’s ability to perform customized metric monitoring, log critical events, and scale easily. I had scaled up open-source monitoring solutions once before, and it wasn’t fun. So when I had the opportunity to do it again, I said ‘No.’ 

On a daily basis, Datadog eliminates a lot of the back and forth with the media owners to find out what is going on, it is just a good visual tool for seeing the activity from each of the content management systems that we work with. It is an easy way to go in and get a feel of what is going on. Without Datadog, we would have to repeatedly spend time to reach out to each media owner directly to see if they are sending any requests that day.

As we moved toward a real-time system, it was important to understand whether our partner networks had reported all of their ads in a short period of time. We now use Datadog as a daily monitoring tool to get a feel for what networks are actively sending requests to their servers, what live campaigns are running smoothly and whether the right networks are requesting ads. I always have Datadog up on a daily basis to debug issues with integrations or just to make sure that live campaigns are running smoothly. 

Each network that we work with has different requirements. In terms of connectivity of their networks, we are always dealing with different frequencies and rates of requests each day. The wide diversity in partners has made customization key since the monitoring needs for each partner varies drastically. There are days where we see weird trends of requests coming in. We are able to use Datadog’s custom graphs to catch the anomalies or concern areas in their system on a real-time basis.

Going forward, we are looking to create separate dashboards for each ad network that we work with. This will enable us to gain more detailed metrics for each individual media owner. We will be able to take these detailed metrics and use them to quickly identify potential problem areas, improving our ability to solve problems as soon as they are detected.

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Atlassian Expert at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Great observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
  • "The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."

What is our primary use case?

We are providing managed services to our customers across multiple industries. Datadog is key to delivering these services by bringing the observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities we need to operate at scale. 

We operate custom cloud native workloads as well as ISV products such as Atlassian Jira or Confluence. 

Integrating Synthetics, infrastructure, and application performance monitoring, as well as piping all logs through Datadog allows us to operate more with less with good alerting right in time.

How has it helped my organization?

We are providing managed services to our customers across multiple industries. 

Datadog is key to delivering these services. It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale. 

We operate custom cloud native workloads as well as ISV products such as Atlassian Jira or Confluence. 

Integrating Synthetics, infrastructure, and application performance monitoring, as well as piping all logs through Datadog, help with getting alerts in real-time.

What is most valuable?

We are providing managed services to our customers across multiple industries. 

Datadog delivers observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities we need to operate at scale. 

Operating custom cloud native workloads as well as ISV products such as Atlassian Jira or Confluence is also something we do. Integrating Synthetics, infrastructure, and application performance monitoring, as well as piping all logs through Datadog allows us to operate while grabbing alerts in real-time.

What needs improvement?

The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments. 

Being able to have an automatic materialized report on certain dashboards that could be exported as PDF to be shared with non-Datadog users could help a lot. 

Other than that, we are more than happy with the features we use regularly.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Datadog since 2015.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer2003535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Engineering at a construction company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Helps track incidents and integrates with Slack but needs better tooling integration within Slack
Pros and Cons
  • "It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
  • "I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."

What is our primary use case?

We use Datadog incident management for our incident tooling. Whenever we run into an incident, we try to use it. It allows us to create a separate Slack channel for it.

How has it helped my organization?

Keeping track of incidents makes it possible to share learnings and follow-up. It is also required for SOC2 compliance.

What is most valuable?

It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog. It allows us to not think too much about organizing incidents, which is a highly stressful situation.

What needs improvement?

I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log.

Learning about the tooling could also be improved. It is a bit clunky to use, especially in an incident. It could definitely be more streamlined.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for about a year.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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reviewer2000487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Great for monitoring, helps with internal communication and offers improved visibility
Pros and Cons
  • "We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
  • "The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."

What is our primary use case?

We're moving towards the cloud yet still have several active data center contracts. As we move to the cloud, we are interested in knowing more about our services, and DataDog APM/logs should give us this perspective. 

We currently use the infrastructure monitoring part of DataDog. Still, I've really seen the advantage of moving more data into the cloud for comparison and being able to have one place where we can view all related pieces of information regarding a possible incident or potential issue.

How has it helped my organization?

We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack. Knowing what we need to do next is what we would like to move to, so seeing the power of Notebooks is key. We also have several other services that we are underutilizing (logging, error tracking, etc.) that would be better housed in DataDog since it gives us more visibility into linking all of the things together into one cohesive picture.

What is most valuable?

Monitoring has been invaluable, and as we start to look to other products, bringing in logs and APM traces will create a full picture of what we need to do to resolve incidents. We're also interested in our users' perspectives and when things are slowing down for them.

Additionally, we are interested in the workflows announced today as an actionable decision tree that will allow our teams to see what is wrong and know what to do based on the connected runbook/notebook. I feel that this is the final piece that will make DataDog so much more valuable than its competition.

What needs improvement?

I have talked to vendors that mention that DataDog is drawing attention to an issue. However, you'll still need to take action on your own. The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used the solution for two years.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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