We primarily use the solution for security monitoring and anomaly detection.
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Great dashboards, helpful visualizations, and has the capability to scale
Pros and Cons
- "The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
- "The ease of implementation needs improvement."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents.
What is most valuable?
The dashboards are great. They allow for the visualization of log data over time to detect anomalous behavior.
What needs improvement?
The ease of implementation needs improvement. I did not personally experience the initial deployment of Datadog in our environment, however, after some conference workshops, some of the pain points with deployment and turning on certain settings or features were revealed. I would not know how to deal with these issues (or sometimes where to begin) if I were starting from scratch.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Datadog is very easy to deploy at scale when implemented early in the deployment process and if made a deployment requirement.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not previously use a different solution.
How was the initial setup?
I was not involved with the initial setup.
What about the implementation team?
What was our ROI?
What other advice do I have?
The solution is deployed as a SaaS.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Good for monitoring, helps centralize data, and reduces costs
Pros and Cons
- "With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
- "Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
What is our primary use case?
The solution is primarily used for better understanding the health of applications, modern environments, and many other solutions, which are the main focus of Datadog and many other monitoring tools.
With Datadog specifically, I can look at the health of the technology stack and services, and also integrate multiple metric sources, security, business data, and much more. This makes it a real software solution for centralizing data and unifying monitoring silos in one place. Datadog is like a hub - not just a monitoring software.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution primarily has helped the organization by helping us better understand the health of applications, modern environments, et cetera.
We can see the health of the technology stack and services. We can also integrate multiple metric sources, security, business data, and much more. It centralizes data and unifies monitoring in one place. It's Helping reduce costs with other solutions, and also reduces costs with teams that might waste time with manual troubleshooting.
What is most valuable?
Understanding better the health of applications, modern environments, and many other solutions, is the main focus of Datadog and many other monitoring tools.
With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services. I can also integrate multiple metric sources, security, business data, and much more. It's great for centralizing data and unifying monitoring silos.
Datadog is a hub, not just a monitoring software. The biggest value of Datadog is looking at the big picture, not only one part of it.
What needs improvement?
Datadog could have a better business analysis module.
Other vendors have specific business collections and analyses. With Datadog, I don't see much of it. It's possible to do this with custom metrics, dashboards, etc. However, none of those are business-focused - and that is what is lacking in Datadog.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for two years.
What other advice do I have?
We use the SaaS version of the product.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Reseller
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Sr. Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Good observability and dashboards with increased visibility
Pros and Cons
- "Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
- "We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
What is our primary use case?
Observability is a key use case, as is security.
How has it helped my organization?
With this product, we get more visibility into our K8s clusters and more intelligent alerting.
What is most valuable?
Datadog dashboards are pretty great.
What needs improvement?
We need more integration with security tools like Drata.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for three years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Great log, SQL, and network monitors
Pros and Cons
- "Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
- "Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution for monitoring applications and informing customers via Pagerduty and Statuspage. The monitoring and alerts can be personalized internally, and we are able to find problems and issues. The response time monitor has been great, and it has been validating upgrades. We can check in to see which step fails,
How has it helped my organization?
Previously, we had monitors scattered with different places and products, making troubleshooting harder and slower. Also, logs and monitors were on different platforms, making it harder to put the infrastructure puzzle together.
Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find.
Additionally, integrations with, for example, GCP, Network, component, and Software providers are much easier as everything is now centralized.
API and notification integrations are also a great benefit for our organization.
Datadog is listening actively for customer feedback and develops improvements for us effectively.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of the solution include the APM, log monitor, SQL monitors, network monitors, and integrations.
What needs improvement?
Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact. The current problem is that monitoring is integrated with the Statuspage and the SLA.
Also, browser support for browsers other than Chrome should be added. Browser test recording is another problem, as it does not always work in normal mode. One needs to use incognito mode or a pop-up.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for three years.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner

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