Datadog

Avantages

Extensibility of functionalities. Ability to drill down into each trace and learning about span breakdown

Inconvénients

Difficulty in managing so many features and challenges in learning about new terminologies

Avantages

Ease of searching through the entire logs generated by my apps

Inconvénients

There is nothing to dislike, I like the current features alot

Avantages

Creating custom dashboards and service monitors

Inconvénients

Would like few videos to be published on the customization and the features.

Avantages

Really good dashboards and insights. APM is my favorite

Inconvénients

Better UI with font and style could be useful.

Avantages

Error tracing abilities. How everything is put together. I helps to find errors.

Inconvénients

Some tools are a little bit expensive to have, and there are really good cheaper alternatives.

Avantages

A free trial is available along with other subscription options.
Opportunity to create multiple user accounts.
400+ integration and unlimited alerts.
Custom Matrics.

Inconvénients

High licensing pricing as compared to other IT management options.
Limited data storage for a limited time

Avantages

It is well equippywith very useful features

Inconvénients

It has very useful features, but some of them are not very intuitive which makes it difficult when transitioning from other tool

Avantages

As a backend developer, I find Datadog extremely useful for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces in real time. It integrates well with most tools and services we use, making it easy to identify bottlenecks or errors. The dashboards are highly customizable, which helps with specific backend performance tracking.

Inconvénients

The pricing becomes expensive as usage scales, especially for log ingestion. Some of the advanced configurations, like setting up alerts for specific backend metrics, can take some time to figure out.

Avantages

Intuitive UI, and feature packed. Setting up dashboards has been a breeze. Most recently I set up several Synthetic tests for my organization and I was pleasantly surprised with its capabilities. Great documentation to support various features overall.

Inconvénients

My organization has complained about cost of the product.

Avantages

End-to-end observability, great search and analytics capability

Inconvénients

Can be expensive, especially at scale. They also introduce new features for free but then charge you later.

Avantages

Datadog is an excellent tool for monitoring real-time application errors, information, warning logs, and overall infrastructure to ensure performance and reliability.

It is a fully stable application. We enjoy working with it, and we are impressed by its performance. There is no slowness at all, and there is zero downtime. It is a one-shot tool that provides a complete solution to all your requirements with the best customization capability.

Inconvénients

A few improvements are expected: the UI should be more user-friendly, and a help menu with "How to customize easily" should be added for those using it for the first time.
No data visualization.

Avantages

It's very complete and supports all kinds of observability tools. The UI is friendly and uniform

Inconvénients

I can't customize the left hand side menu and hide features that I never need.

Avantages

- Centralized observability
- Rich features, covering end-to-end stack
- Good UI/UX experience
- Rich integration with other libraries and frameworks
- Reliability and scalability

Inconvénients

- The pricing model is too rigid. It can be expensive when you have the scale.
- The pricing model can be too complicated to understand
- No startup or credits offering

Avantages

The UI and UX is intuitive for the most part.

Inconvénients

Depending on the product being used, UI can be alittle overwhelming and complex.

Avantages

An excellent tool for solving all problems. It includes tracing capabilities and distributed tracing. Metrics and logs are real-time. It also offers RUM for user monitoring across different devices, custom metrics, as well as seamless integration with incident response tools.

Inconvénients

I'm nitpicking, but the IaaS code needed to write monitors isn't intuitive. The API data is convoluted and quite confusing when it comes to writing complex monitors. There is a workaround to copy and paste the JSON from the Datadog UI, but reading what the monitor does directly from the code is quite a chore.

Avantages

The support from Datadog team along the year to tackle bugs and also beta testing new products and providing feedback

Inconvénients

The fact that we need a PhD to be able to understand Datadog pricing model XD

Avantages

The easy of visualizeation and searching vs any other platform.

Inconvénients

Navigating is difficult, it relies on you memorizing icon means what, or what dropdown a service falls under.

Avantages

Dashboard creations & Error Tracking and Alerts. Also, great support.

Inconvénients

You cannot filter the menu on the left. It is a lot for a newbie.

Avantages

It's large feature-set and integrations that make setting up new alerts and dashboard easy

Inconvénients

It is very complicated at times and we end up not using things very efficiently.

Avantages

Connecting several services together for the whole picture.

Inconvénients

Not being able to share my dashboards on slack daily anymore since the last workflow updates.

Avantages

The quality of insights it produces out of box is amazing. Earlier we were using a set of different tools for monitoring and logs but it helped us consolidate them giving us over 80% in cost s saving and a much better picture of whats going on

Inconvénients

Implementation can be challenging to start with but once we successfully updated our based docker images, it was quite easy to roll it out to more services

Avantages

A powerhouse of a tool for monitoring every bit of application stack, infrastructure, state of business

Inconvénients

A lot of options and functions sometimes makes it hard to find the one you need

Avantages

One-stop shop for logs and infrastructure status

Inconvénients

Hard to teach new users where to find things at times. Especially with Monitors.

Avantages

Everything is packed into one platform, that makes it the single point when it comes to monitoring.

Inconvénients

Support for Maven and Gradle is not so great. It doesn't really know how to check for actual dependency versions used in my project.

Avantages

APM, the wide range of available features.

Inconvénients

The UI can be a bit sluggish/slow at times. Can be pricy

Avantages

The most I like about the data is trace of the apis and Service Catalog showing all the important details of API. apart from these pipeline feature as well.

Inconvénients

I very much like datadog, but the UI of log section can be imporved. It looks a but clutter.

Avantages

All-in-one out of the box solutions for observability

Inconvénients

Documentation is lacking in certain APIs. Specifically, the python SDK seems to have features that aren't mentioned in the documentation for dashboards. The widgets are able to accept **kwargs that exist in the JSON definition in the dashboards, but not in the documentation

Avantages

Based on how it is set up and connected you can find all your logs in one place.

Inconvénients

no cons I can think of at the minute as it meets our needs

Avantages

Aggregations and APM. The way i can investigate my accidents is awsome

Inconvénients

Pricing is very very hight compared to competitors. So this might be an overkill for some companies that in a beginning.

Avantages

Trace, Log, Notification, DataDog RUM, Error Tracking

Inconvénients

Monitor, Performance Monitoring, DataDog Log for Front End (React)

Avantages

Creation of custom dashboards.
Event tracing is easier to debug by developers.

Inconvénients

Login is bit of a hassle. Have to go through SSO every single time.

Avantages

very good experience overall. It helps us to check the logs very easily.

Inconvénients

sometimes it has downtime, so our work is interrupted.

Avantages

Tracing is awesome.
With the help of Trace attribute i can track every method call.

Inconvénients

Takes more storage/memory in the dll with respect to new reli*

Avantages

It is user friendly and easy to use. We can monitor all error and able to see performance.

Inconvénients

Sometime container not showing we need to select deselect multiple time then it is visible.

Avantages

How it has everything in the monitoring space

Inconvénients

It can be expensive at times, especially the RUM functionality.

Avantages

Exhaustive it covers almost every aspect of monitoring an application

Inconvénients

Documentation. Mastering the product is hard given it covers so many aspects. However documentation can be improved with more samples and easier doc navigation (it relies too much on blog samples)

Avantages

Search function is super quick, logs are easy to read and sort through

Inconvénients

I honestly can't think of anything, it has everything we need

Avantages

I can logs from various environments and with many options to filter and seerch so I can tweak the settings and see the logs I am looking for.

Inconvénients

I found it a bit difficult to get my head around where to find what and how to make a simple query - but then it's probably because I was completely new to Application Performance Monitoring tools in general. Once I used the tool for some live debugging I got the hang of it :)

Avantages

Reliability. Clean and intuitive user interface.

Inconvénients

Pricing. Also, the documentation is a bit confusing at times.

Avantages

The dashboard in datadog is very customizable, allowing me to view metrics and logs to my preference. This in my opinion, allows me to work very efficiently.

I also appreciate the alerting system as it helps me catch and identify problems.

Inconvénients

The learning curve was a bit hard to understand at first, as there was a lot of options at the start that makes it feel overwhelming.

Avantages

It provides an easy way for a team to analyze most logs, performance, metrics on the same platform as it connects with multiple services

Inconvénients

The pricing might be a problem in case of extremely high data volumes and the interface gets complicated to manage or it may take you some time to understand it

Avantages

A complete suite to track and monitor applications

Inconvénients

Sometimes is complete to track an error and complex integration with some clouds

Avantages

The log monitoring feature, I mainly use datadog for support and looking into crashes.

Inconvénients

There was a bit of a learning curve, but that is to be expected with a powerful tool.

Avantages

The security measure from the program has been well implemented, and it resolves all the data needs.

Inconvénients

The most efficient data resolving needs are well captured by Datadog.

Avantages

The efficiency and features of the tools, how quickly it can fetch logs and extensive search features.

Inconvénients

Sometimes, it become very difficult to get log of a particular data stream or single stream and need to search alot of logs. Plus, there should be a text feature so don't need to click each log or hover feature.

Avantages

Good for searching logs. Can capture log in real time

Inconvénients

Hard to search for logs. Too many configurations

Avantages

The most like features of datadog are it provides real-time monitoring of any happens In the system and it is easily customizable. With the help of logs, we can easily create the monitor and dashboards. It can easily use all other third-party tools and can create alerts. It also provides anomaly which works on past data and it is sensitive and useful. Datadog is also AI capable, There is a feature called Datadog Insight which can easily detect any error in the system.

Inconvénients

Datadog is a fairly new application, Learning advanced features we are not able to find much documentation and learning on the internet. It also stores limited historical data and licensing is fairly high compared to similar monitoring platforms.

Avantages

Good for analyzing logs, creating basic dashboards

Inconvénients

Pricing if very high, causes us to reduce retention. Also, the indexing is not great.

Avantages

I love the customizable dashboards and the variety of integrations available. It has made monitoring a breeze!

Inconvénients

The cost can be a bit high for smaller businesses and the learning curve for some features is steep.

Avantages

The extensive detail of logging it offers.

Inconvénients

The UI can be overwhelming. There are so many areas to explore and so many ways to do it.