Datadog Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've used the solution for two years. 

We use the SaaS version of the product.

Observability is a key use case, as is security.

With this product, we get more visibility into our K8s clusters and more intelligent alerting.

Datadog dashboards are pretty great.

We need more integration with security tools like Drata.

I've used the solution for three years.

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,

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.

The most valuable features of the solution include the APM, log monitor, SQL monitors, network monitors, and integrations.

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.

I've been using the solution for three years.