Datadog Reviews & Product Details

what I like best about DataDog:

1. it provides a user-friendly interface to track down logs.

2. It allows to track and fetch logs according to specified time-frames.

3. Log appear live, so usage is useful to tracking down logs when on the spot.

4. Bug-tracking can be presented in a convenient way to help testers and developers during bug fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about DataDog:

1. User interface contains an overwhelming amount of features that make it difficult to navigate through.

2. Categorization is often innacurate and causes problems with finding specific logs.

3. Time-frame functionalities are often buggy and unreliable.

4. It's unclear how to integrates bugs from application in development to DataDog log system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog is a powerful observability tool that brings metrics, logs, traces, and more into a single, easy-to-use platform. What I really like is how quickly you can get visibility across your entire stack—especially in dynamic cloud and Kubernetes environments—and the dashboards are both beautiful and practical. It’s reliable and flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it can get expensive fast if you’re not careful with what you ingest or retain. Some of the advanced features take time to master, and alert tuning needs discipline to avoid noise. Still, for modern infrastructure, it’s one of the best tools out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog provides real-time visibility into infrastructure and application performance with intuitive dashboards and robust alerting. I love how easy it is to set up monitors and correlate metrics, logs, and traces all in one place. The out-of-the-box integrations with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes are a huge plus and save a lot of setup time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing can ramp up quickly, especially when enabling multiple features like log management, APM, and custom metrics. The UI can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially for new users. Some configuration options require going deep into documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I almost use Datadog every day to view the customer sessions to find out the how customer handles our application and it really help me to clarify on the what customer facing and what customer trying to convey with the usage. As a customer support member, these things help me to make queries addressed faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some high-level UI interactions are not captured in the session, making certain user sessions difficult to analyze or even useless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Datadog does particularly well in Incident Detection. Datadog enables real-time monitoring of service health, with alerting configured via integrations like PagerDuty. This helps us quickly detect production issues, minimise downtime, and maintain SLA/SLO commitments.

At Indeed, we use Datadog extensively across our engineering organisation for monitoring, incident detection, observability, and SLO management. It plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our services, especially those with high user impact like the IRL Sign-In Tool and our GraphQL APIs. I use Datadog very frequently because it is easy to use and easy to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Datadog UI is powerful but can be intimidating and cluttered especially when building complex queries or nested monitors. There is a learning curve for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It brings metrics, logs, traces, and alerts into a single, intuitive platform.

Real-time dashboards and powerful visualizations make it easy to identify issues quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fine-tuning alerts and dashboards often takes time to avoid noise and false positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It offers almost every possible way to track the application interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very expensive, and it's not easy to grasp for newbies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface is excellent, and I appreciate the simplicity of the user experience. It offers full stack observability, allowing me to monitor both the technology stack and the application environment effectively. They have knowledge tech support and supports many third party integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is up to date, and there is nothing more to add. The documentation is thorough, and there are clear paths available to troubleshoot any queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way it help provide the observability of the apps from infrasctructure , APM , Browser and with logs metrics and traces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Way we write the Datadog query language. Ui can be a bit better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can monitor our all in centralized platform. Dashboards are very clear and we can integrate our other solutions as well. That is big advantage for us. We can fix and resolve our problems quickly using datadog Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compared to other competitive products, datadog price are bit higher. Small and medium size businesses cannot buy this product easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.