Datadog Customer Reviews 2026 | Application Performance

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Datadog

Composite Score

8.6 /10

CX Score

8.7 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Datadog won the following awards in the Application Performance & Observability-Enterprise category

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2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2026

2 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2025

Product Impact

2025

2 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

Datadog Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 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?

0% Negative

6% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Effective Service
Unique Features
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Cloud Integration

100

Error Reporting

Transaction Request Performance

Server Monitoring

Application Metric Reporting

Code Performance Monitoring

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Application Request Tracing

Application Logging

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

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Datadog Reviews

PRABHAT M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Sep 2022

Datadog a Must have platform for APM

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog comes with a very easy to integrate solution with any of the languages. The APM is so good in datadog that we were able to view the throughput , the appdex score the transactions between apis on a single platform.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best aspect about data is its a very easy to integrate tool with any of the language. The server monitoring is also awesome in datadog.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The most i liked about this product was the APM. The APM dashboard reports all the metrics like appdex score , the throughput etc. The dashboard creating facility with drag & drop feature is extremely easy in datadog.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would strongly recommend datadog for anybody looking for APM solutions.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Allen S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Observability made simple

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog APM is simple to implement and deploy into the required systems, once deployed it enables full stack observability and collect all metric which can prove to be quite useful.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

During time of troubleshooting Datadog provides better in depth analysis and helps in finding out the issues much quicker

What do you dislike most about this product?

The alerting features are quite limited, more alert condition types need to be introduced with varying levels of thresholds

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

A good APM tool to fetch metrics and analytics of the hosted systems in an organisation

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Datadog Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Datadog?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud Integration Integration with automation and service management tools, as well as with public-cloud providers (e.g., Amazon Cloudwatch, Azure Monitoring, Google Cloud)

Error Reporting Tracking and automatic notification of alerts or errors within the system.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking & Observing the performance of an application and all web and other transactions within your system.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Application Metric Reporting Tracking of both custom and basic application framework metrics.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) Synthetic front-end monitoring simulates user interactions with online applications, including fully scripted transactions.

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Application Request Tracing Detail key attributes of application requests and transactions.

Application Logging Capture and store transaction and application data for use in debugging and tracing.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

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Datadog Reviews

PRABHAT M.

Datadog a Must have platform for APM

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Allen S.

Observability made simple

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Application Logging

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