Datadog Pros and Cons
Datadog Pros
Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system.
View full review »Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure.
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Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis.
View full review »The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need.
View full review »Straightforward to integrate and automate.
View full review »This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space.
View full review »The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart.
View full review »Datadog Cons
Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion.
View full review »The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances.
View full review »More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful.
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Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic.
Datadog's price is also high.
View full review »The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts.
View full review »Could be a little more user friendly.
View full review »The error traceability is an area that can be improved.
View full review »Additional metrics should be included.
View full review »In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages.
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