Datadog reviews

The best feature of data dog is real time monitoring of logs and vulnerability scan which stands unique to save the server and cloud from further damaging

The datadog user interface is very hard to learn and with the minimum training anyone cannot operate it fully also a lot of integrations are very difficult to operate.

It's very complete and supports all kinds of observability tools. The UI is friendly and uniform

I can't customize the left hand side menu and hide features that I never need.

Good for analyzing logs, creating basic dashboards

Pricing if very high, causes us to reduce retention. Also, the indexing is not great.

- Centralized observability
- Rich features, covering end-to-end stack
- Good UI/UX experience
- Rich integration with other libraries and frameworks
- Reliability and scalability

- The pricing model is too rigid. It can be expensive when you have the scale.
- The pricing model can be too complicated to understand
- No startup or credits offering

The support from Datadog team along the year to tackle bugs and also beta testing new products and providing feedback

The fact that we need a PhD to be able to understand Datadog pricing model XD

The easy of visualizeation and searching vs any other platform.

Navigating is difficult, it relies on you memorizing icon means what, or what dropdown a service falls under.

A powerhouse of a tool for monitoring every bit of application stack, infrastructure, state of business

A lot of options and functions sometimes makes it hard to find the one you need

Everything is packed into one platform, that makes it the single point when it comes to monitoring.

Support for Maven and Gradle is not so great. It doesn't really know how to check for actual dependency versions used in my project.

APM, the wide range of available features.

The UI can be a bit sluggish/slow at times. Can be pricy

An excellent tool for solving all problems. It includes tracing capabilities and distributed tracing. Metrics and logs are real-time. It also offers RUM for user monitoring across different devices, custom metrics, as well as seamless integration with incident response tools.

I'm nitpicking, but the IaaS code needed to write monitors isn't intuitive. The API data is convoluted and quite confusing when it comes to writing complex monitors. There is a workaround to copy and paste the JSON from the Datadog UI, but reading what the monitor does directly from the code is quite a chore.

Connecting several services together for the whole picture.

Not being able to share my dashboards on slack daily anymore since the last workflow updates.

User friendly UI/UX. Easy to navigate and finding different functions of application is quite easy

The side navigation menu can be better.
Search Explorer for logs filtering is not very efficient. The checkboxes flicker

Works very nice when you need to collect logs from multiple different platforms/environments. Good monitoring/alerting capabilities.

As a large tool it has its own learning path. Takes some time to learn different concepts, but well worth time investment

RUM has helped us in identifying the frustrations of end user, visibly view how the end user is interacting with our application and ultimately serve our users better and improve usability for them. Also the Datadog monitors for monitoring CPU and memory usage have been a real game changer in resolving memory leaks.

Something to improve on is capture information logs whenever required in the RUM sessions in case we want to debug certain scenarios even before errors happen.

DBM really help us in indentifying the slow queries and co-relating it to the service call.

The APM feature in which how to find memory leaks is little behind than competitors

1 platform to consolidate all application logs and cloud logs.

Confusing pricing model for individual features.

How it has everything in the monitoring space

It can be expensive at times, especially the RUM functionality.

Search function is super quick, logs are easy to read and sort through

I honestly can't think of anything, it has everything we need

Extensibility of functionalities. Ability to drill down into each trace and learning about span breakdown

Difficulty in managing so many features and challenges in learning about new terminologies

Ease of searching through the entire logs generated by my apps

There is nothing to dislike, I like the current features alot

Creating custom dashboards and service monitors

Would like few videos to be published on the customization and the features.

Really good dashboards and insights. APM is my favorite

Better UI with font and style could be useful.

Error tracing abilities. How everything is put together. I helps to find errors.

Some tools are a little bit expensive to have, and there are really good cheaper alternatives.

You dont have to manage anything, you just setup your agent and you have monitoring done.

Documentation is not public available, i dont understand why.