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What is Datadog?
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Datadog?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Acts with Integrity
- Fair
- Altruistic
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Feature Ratings
Security Operations Automation
Analyze Activity Data
Incident Management Automation
Data Visualization
Predictive Analytics
Operational Task Automation
Event & Alert Management Automation
Analyze Discovery Data
Explainable and Trainable Algorithms
Problem Management Automation
Performance & Capacity Management Automation
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Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
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Score 8.8
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Score 8.2
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Score 7.1
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Datadog Reviews
Amit K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2024
Robust software for all your observability needs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
its very easy to setup and extensive guides on its various capabilities its also super important for observability software to be very reliable other wise you can't find the critical issues in your system real-time, and in my experience i never saw the disruption to the DataDog(DD) service which enabled me to do many production RCAs effectively, while I faced few issues with other open-source and proprietary softwares. Also DD has very intuitive UI/UX which makes it very user friendly
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
its Out of the box integration with many softwares and cloud providers to see all the infra and application metrics and highly customisable dashboards and integration with many alerting systems. and very good explanation about the metrics provides for Out of the box integration with other softwares like kafka, Elasticsearch etc
What do you dislike most about this product?
its cost and when you want to customize or add new metrics for your application its not very straightforward like its in prometheus and documentation and guides needs more better examples for adding the custom metrics.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
have trial accounts with DD and other observability softwares and evaluate their features based on your needs and budget before making the final decision
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Emran K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Perfect Ai Cloud Monitoring System Software!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Great cloud management and it can monitor swiftly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the cloud monitoring system of this product very much. This feature help IT infrastructure a lot.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike but has some bugs
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cloud monitoring systems operate continuously to provide real-time insights into application performance, resource utilization, and potential security threats. It has Ai features which ensures automation also.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Saves Time
- Client Friendly Policies
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Amit K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2023
Bit pricy and now they now have strong competitors
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
its a proprietary solution hence it has many enterprises features missing in the open source softwares, Also since it was started early and gained more popularity and adoption hence it has large user-base and more features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Out of the box integration with most of the popular softwares which makes it very popular as it can be just setup very fast and can cover your entire software eco-system
What do you dislike most about this product?
its rate of innovation is slowed down and now there are few competitors giving unique features at a very less price
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Check new modern age observability softwares and compare their features and what you need, this way you can save huge cost and pay for what you actually need
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
Cons
- Less Effective Service
- Leverages Incumbent Status
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