Datadog Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about Datadog is how seamlessly it brings together metrics, logs, and traces in one place. The dashboard is very intuitive, and it’s easy to set up real-time monitoring for applications and infrastructure. I also like how flexible it is — you can create custom dashboards, set alerts, and get deep visibility into performance issues quickly. It really helps in identifying bottlenecks before they impact users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main downside of Datadog is its pricing — it can get quite expensive as your infrastructure and data volume grow. Managing costs can be tricky, especially when you’re monitoring multiple environments. Also, the interface, while powerful, can feel a bit overwhelming at first due to the number of features and options available. It takes some time to get fully comfortable navigating everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Datadog shows issues in real time and the filters help me quickly find the key errors without digging through everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the dashboard feels a bit heavy, and it can take time to set up the right filters when the data gets large. and some time the errors are small but it shows high alerts for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extremely reliable.

Ability to fine tune Custom metrics and logs ingested -> this helps to control the cost.

Many features integrated together multiplying the efficiency of Datadog as a global Observability solution.

It is easy to implement and to use.

Integration with 3rd parties is most of the time straightforward.

Scales well with a large organisation.

Dashboards and queries are very responsive even with a very large amount of data.

The Datadog team is very responsive, they already implemented most of the feature requests we suggested (over 10 in a year) which is impressive.

Support is also responsive and we have most of our issues solved in a reasonable amount of time.

The platform is used intensively be the developers across our organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like Zendesk, it is quite poor to interact with support compared to Datadog platform.

Terraform and APIs often take longer to catch up with new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy integration, power dashboards and visualization, smart alerts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

expensive and hard to predict cost, data retenntion and export limitation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog is very easy to use and provides a unified platform for monitoring, metrics, logs, and traces. I really like the Log Explorer, it’s powerful and flexible, especially when building complex queries to filter and analyze data. The Metric Explorer and APM features are excellent for tracking performance and identifying bottlenecks across different services. User management is straightforward, and setting up monitors is quick and reliable. Integration is also straightforward, in our case, we use it with Microsoft Teams and Azure without any issues. Their customer support has always been responsive and helpful whenever we’ve needed assistance. Overall, it’s a powerful and easy-to-use observability platform that provides deep visibility across systems and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashboards can feel limited at times, building more advanced or highly customized visualizations isn’t always straightforward.

Another drawback is the cost as Datadog can become extremely expensive if not managed carefully, especially when log volumes or monitored hosts grow quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collecting all important monitoring information in one place so if a problem arises it is faster to find the cause as every metric is collected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find its interface a bit outdated and unintuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how detailed the log traces can be in Datadog, and how I can search for specific logs based on labels and facets. Setting up Datadog agents was also very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing can become really expensive at scale, especially when log ingestion and custom metrics are not carefully managed. It would really be nice to be able to view a cost dashboard, as I don't think Datadog has that feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog is pretty awesome, it's really powerful, we can add logs from our platforms, it tracks automatically the `console.errors` on the frontend, we can track the specific line when mappings are available, it allow us to track the CPU usage, it even can be connected to services like OpsGenie, or Slack or others, also it has support for IDEs which means we can open the error directly on our IDE, which is really awesome... but maybe the most important is that we can have a complete platform for control of our code/infra in one single place, as a FrontEnd developer, this help us also to track properly what the users see and replicate issues as closes as we can without bothering our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really expensive, sometimes configuring a dashboard or specific monitors is really hard as the platform is too big, which feels overwhelming, meaning we can't properly find some parts or things like that, also for example on the error login I think it should work the opposite when creating a query using the filters, as we should start with nothing selected, and then we can start filtering, so it's not hard to find what we want... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog offers a comprehensive set of monitoring tools that make it easy to visualize, alert, and analyze performance metrics in real time. I particularly like how seamlessly it integrates with various cloud platforms and services. The dashboards are customizable and give great visibility into system health, which helps our team react faster to issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog can get expensive as usage scales, especially with multiple integrations and high data ingestion. The pricing model isn't always transparent, and configuring some advanced features can be a bit complex without strong technical knowledge or documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog has everything you could want for observability and alerting and incident management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be quite overwhelming on where to get started, you need to know exactly what you want to do to get into Datadog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.