Datadog Customer Reviews 2026 | Application Performance

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Datadog

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

8.8 /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.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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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.

+89 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

5% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Acts with Integrity
Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Cloud Integration

Server Monitoring

Application Metric Reporting

Error Reporting

Transaction Request Performance

Scalability

Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)

Code Performance Monitoring

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Application Request Tracing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

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Datadog Reviews

Thomas L.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Easily Monitor performance with Datadog

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog is my preferred observability tool; However, I hate dealing with priced capabilities and budget management is a pain.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I really like how easy it is to move resources between dashboards, APM, and other places. An excellent APM solution with intelligent and intuitive monitoring. Product for SLO management that is the best in its field.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Spending plans can be complicated when pricing is based on single metrics and tag cardinality. There should be no need to hide certain prices behind unnecessary fees, like Audit Trail.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

An excellent APM solution with intelligent and intuitive monitoring. The best SLO management product in its field. An easy-to-use API that makes it easy to develop code to retrieve complete reports and strong support for infrastructure as code.

Pros

Reliable
Unique Features
Efficient Service
Saves Time

Sanket M.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2026

powerful platform for end to end system monitoring

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

provides unified observability across infrastructure applications and logs on a single platform.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

comprehensive visibility of system performance and application health making decision making easier.

What do you dislike most about this product?

costs can add up quickly especially with large data volumes.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

adopt it as the primary platform for observability and monitoring.

Pros

Inspires Innovation
Saves Time
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2026

Fantastic platform that gets most things correct.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Datadog Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+89 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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Non-Commodity Operating Systems Non-Commodity Operating Systems capabilities such as AIX, z/OS, Solaris, IBM i, and z/Linux.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Systems Management

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Datadog Reviews

Thomas L.

Easily Monitor performance with Datadog

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sanket M.

powerful platform for end to end system monitoring

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Fantastic platform that gets most things correct.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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