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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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93 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
Pros
- Fair
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Cloud Monitoring
Capacity Management
Multi-Site Functionality
Auto-Discovery
Network Configuration Management
Server Performance Monitoring
Network Performance Management
Centralized Dashboard
Storage Monitoring
Applications Monitoring
Network Mapping
Vendor Capability Ratings
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
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Datadog Reviews
Shiv Dayal G.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2024
Real time metrics using Datadog
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog has easy access over the cloud which provides best security services to the deployed code. along with this, it provide monitoring to the servers and we can easily customize metrics of all real time data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Datadog very easy to use and helps me out in easily tracking my real time metrics. i can easily monitors all my deployed code and maintain it over the cloud easily.
What do you dislike most about this product?
pricing model is somewhat hard to understand for me , when dealing with custom metrics as it can be hard to handle tags in that. It can be more great to get some additional kind of quote calculator so we can figure out how much a change is going to cost us before we implement it in real time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Datadog will be helpful for all searching out for best monitoring servers software as data dog is easy to use and help easily monitor our deployed code over the cloud.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Martin D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2024
Excellent product. It's core in our workflow.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
It's incredibily easy to setup and monitor. Dashboard are like any other.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's one of the major players on the market and it's been very reliable ever since. Since this is a mission critical aspect we value the reliability greatly.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Support could it's hard to reach in some cases.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Reading the documentation throughly can save time when setting up.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Aman S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2025
cloud data engineering and monitoring platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
server, application, network and log monitoring capabilities in a single platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
easy to see the performance of different systems and microservices in a single view.
What do you dislike most about this product?
pricing on large data volumes can quickly escalate.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
vital monitoring and observability tool for cloud data engineers.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Efficient Service
- Caring
