I find that Datadog is a solution that offers me flexibility when I am trying to decide what plan I should choose. Once I have established what I need, I can select the payment plan that I want from the three basic options that they offer. These plans are the following:
Free - This is the most basic of the three options. While it costs nothing to use, it also affords me the fewest capabilities. This only allows me to handle a maximum of five hosts at a time. Additionally, it only preserves logged metrics for one day before deleting them. It provides me with access to Datadog’s core collection and visualization features.
Pro - The Pro option costs $15 per month per host and is billed annually. This plan enables me to centralize my monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions. Datadog Pro is an option that offers many more features than the free plan. For example, it makes it possible for me to retain metric data for 15 months.
Datadog Enterprise - At $23 monthly per host billed annually with a 100 host minimum, this is the most comprehensive option. This plan includes a variety of advanced features, such as an alert system that is powered by a machine learning engine.
The pricing of this product is good on a theoretical level. If all I need is the most basic plan, then it is easy for me to control the cost to my company. However, the other two options require me to be very careful with how many resources I use. My ability to plan out my resource expenditure is what ultimately affects what I pay at the end of the year. All of this being said, the way that this solution is priced can be said to be much more reasonable than many other competing products.
There are areas where, for the price that they charge for the more expensive plans, I feel Datadog could afford to improve. Areas of potential improvement include:
Security - Some of the aspects of its security suite could use improvement. One example of this is an aspect of its monitoring capabilities. Its Windows and Linux security monitoring capabilities leave a lot to be desired. This is an area where the cost should warrant more effective monitoring of these two major platforms.
Supporting documentation - It could provide documentation that breaks down various aspects of the product in a clearer way than it does currently. There is a presumption that we already know the service expertly. This makes it harder for us because instead of helping us with the basics, the documentation mainly discusses advanced use cases.
Ease of use - Datadog is not always the most intuitive product to use. It can have a learning curve to it. When they are compared to a solution like Tenable Nessus, their usability appears to be less attractive. There is definitely room for growth as far as its usability is concerned.
There are areas that I feel justify Datadog’s potentially high cost, though. These include:
Integration - Datadog’s integrations are invaluable. They enable me to connect to a vast array of service providers that add to the capabilities that I have at my disposal.
Single pane of glass - The solution’s dashboard gathers all of metrics and data I need in a centralized location. It also centralizes my solution controls so that I can exercise control from this one place instead of jumping to multiple different screens to perform critical operations.
Visibility - Datadog enables me to gain a level of visibility that shows me all of the critical aspects of my cloud environment and operations. Everything that could aid or harm my business operations is placed so that I can easily view them and use them to make critical decisions.
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I find that Datadog is a solution that offers me flexibility when I am trying to decide what plan I should choose. Once I have established what I need, I can select the payment plan that I want from the three basic options that they offer. These plans are the following:
Free - This is the most basic of the three options. While it costs nothing to use, it also affords me the fewest capabilities. This only allows me to handle a maximum of five hosts at a time. Additionally, it only preserves logged metrics for one day before deleting them. It provides me with access to Datadog’s core collection and visualization features.
Pro - The Pro option costs $15 per month per host and is billed annually. This plan enables me to centralize my monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions. Datadog Pro is an option that offers many more features than the free plan. For example, it makes it possible for me to retain metric data for 15 months.
Datadog Enterprise - At $23 monthly per host billed annually with a 100 host minimum, this is the most comprehensive option. This plan includes a variety of advanced features, such as an alert system that is powered by a machine learning engine.
The pricing of this product is good on a theoretical level. If all I need is the most basic plan, then it is easy for me to control the cost to my company. However, the other two options require me to be very careful with how many resources I use. My ability to plan out my resource expenditure is what ultimately affects what I pay at the end of the year. All of this being said, the way that this solution is priced can be said to be much more reasonable than many other competing products.
There are areas where, for the price that they charge for the more expensive plans, I feel Datadog could afford to improve. Areas of potential improvement include:
Security - Some of the aspects of its security suite could use improvement. One example of this is an aspect of its monitoring capabilities. Its Windows and Linux security monitoring capabilities leave a lot to be desired. This is an area where the cost should warrant more effective monitoring of these two major platforms.
Supporting documentation - It could provide documentation that breaks down various aspects of the product in a clearer way than it does currently. There is a presumption that we already know the service expertly. This makes it harder for us because instead of helping us with the basics, the documentation mainly discusses advanced use cases.
Ease of use - Datadog is not always the most intuitive product to use. It can have a learning curve to it. When they are compared to a solution like Tenable Nessus, their usability appears to be less attractive. There is definitely room for growth as far as its usability is concerned.
There are areas that I feel justify Datadog’s potentially high cost, though. These include:
Integration - Datadog’s integrations are invaluable. They enable me to connect to a vast array of service providers that add to the capabilities that I have at my disposal.
Single pane of glass - The solution’s dashboard gathers all of metrics and data I need in a centralized location. It also centralizes my solution controls so that I can exercise control from this one place instead of jumping to multiple different screens to perform critical operations.
Visibility - Datadog enables me to gain a level of visibility that shows me all of the critical aspects of my cloud environment and operations. Everything that could aid or harm my business operations is placed so that I can easily view them and use them to make critical decisions.