Datadog

Avantages

Visibility into what is going on. I often use View in Context.

Inconvénients

Sometimes I end up with just SO many tabs!

Avantages

You dont have to manage anything, you just setup your agent and you have monitoring done.

Inconvénients

Documentation is not public available, i dont understand why.

Avantages

Ease of integrataion. Both alerts, metrics and log aggregation in one place. Website Synthetics was very useful too.

Inconvénients

Data ingestion cost can be too high at times if not controlled in a granular manner.

Avantages

It has amazing network monitoring and IT management features
Setup and understanding it is easy.

Inconvénients

All smooth with Datadog. No serious concerns

Avantages

the amount of features and that i can have multiple tabs of datadog open at once

Inconvénients

the lack of in depth step by step tutorials/documentation on how to integrate datadog

Avantages

They provide great features for cloud monitoring and compatible with most of the monitors. UI is fast and support team is very responsive

Inconvénients

It can be complex for someone who is new to monitoring systems and integration is quite difficult with other tools

Avantages

Datadog is a very useful tool for monitoring and analyzing data, metrics, etc. Provides good visualization and tracing.

Inconvénients

It's quite a complex tool until you get your way around.

Avantages

Datadog offers comprehensive and user-friendly monitoring, analytics, and visualization tools, enabling efficient management of complex IT infrastructures.

Inconvénients

Pricing is on the expensive side. The documentation is too broad, adding to the complexity as a user.

Avantages

The dashboards and visualizations are top-notch, and the alerts have saved us from downtime.

Inconvénients

I wish the initial setup was more user-friendly, and the pricing can be a bit high.

Avantages

Nothing. I haven't and won't use them because their Sales team is so hyper aggressive.

Inconvénients

DataDog got my cell phone number and that's when it all went down hill. For months they've called me — sometimes extremely early in the morning at time zone inappropriate times — to attempt to get our business.

Just this morning, they called starting at 8am not once, not twice, but three times in a row each from different numbers. I've asked them to stop. I've begged them to stop. I've spoken with managers. I did so again this morning! But I've lost hope that I'll ever land on a do not call list because I'm convinced they don't have one.

The product, frankly, looks good. It's something I'd considered using. But their Sales team is so ridiculously aggressive — who calls someone three or four times in a row from different numbers every five minutes at 8am? — that I will never, ever use them as a vendor. And if you value your sanity, never express even the most vague amount of interest to these folks because apparently they will never stop relentlessly calling you. To say that their Sales team has left a bad taste in my mouth is an understatement.

Avantages

Regardsless its price, Datadog is considered the best monitoring tool I ever use

Inconvénients

A bit pricy, especially on log data ingestion, need to monitor regulerly

Avantages

Teniendo en cuenta que tiene un plan gratuito cabe destacar que brinda informacion completa sobre el servidor y los equipos que se monitorean.

Inconvénients

Cabe recalcar que es un aplicativo pago y obiamente la vercion gratuita tiene limitantes pero es excelente aplicativo y recomiendo adquirirlo.

Avantages

I like the ease of tracking our RUM and Core Web Vitals in the report view Datadog have put together by default

Inconvénients

Hard to make out the data when looking at heatmaps - although we don't use it much because the sessions recorded are so low compared to the traffic we get it makes the data invalid

Avantages

It is awesome for monitoring everything - I mostly used it for apps and servers. It is easy to use, customizes dashboards, and plays well with other tools. Real-time insights are a big help. It is a bit pricey, but it's worth it for the peace of mind it brings.

Inconvénients

It can get a tad pricey when you scale up. Plus, the learning curve can be a bit steep for beginners. And, the free tier isn't as generous as some others out there. It used a lot of my computer's memory.

Avantages

What I love the most about this platform is its incredible ability to provide complete visibility into my cloud infrastructure. I am able to centrally monitor and analyze all my systems, applications and services, allowing me to make quick and informed decisions on any incidents or poor performance.

Inconvénients

There are times when I have experienced difficulties with initial setup and integration with certain services. Although they offer extensive documentation and support, it may still require some time and effort to fully familiarize myself with all the features and settings.

Avantages

All of Datadog's basic building blocks are top-notch. Their data ingestion is lightning fast and (usually) dependable, their graph widget is adaptable and usable in a wide variety of contexts, and they have a good track record of introducing products that combine these features.

Inconvénients

Our experiences with Datadog support have been continuously negative; the company goes out of its way to avoid direct communication and offers irrelevant answers.

Avantages

As a user, what I like the most is its wide set of features and functionalities that allow me to have complete visibility of my infrastructure. I can monitor and analyze metrics in real time, correlate data from different sources, track performance issues, and receive instant alerts and notifications when something is going wrong.

Inconvénients

Setting up and customizing alerts can be a bit complex and take me a bit of time to master. The ability to adjust alert thresholds and conditions could be more intuitive and easier to understand.

Avantages

The breath of features you can have under Datadog is truly impressive, everything from Application, Website, Synthetic monitoring is covered under Datadog, so you have all your observability needs on one platform

Inconvénients

Pricing, it can get really expensive monitoring on Datadog.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Datadog excels at providing real-time, in-depth insights into application and infrastructure performance, with a user-friendly interface and robust integrations.

Inconvénients

Initial setup and customization can be overwhelming, and it may be expensive for smaller businesses.

Avantages

It provided some key insights just missed on an all-in-one package

Inconvénients

key features like integrated APM and IPAM missing

Avantages

Collect vital information and tracks data. The interactive dashboard helps me keep my information organized for effective use. this application monitors my data in the most efficient and easy way. The overall experience is wonderful for me and I would definitely recommend investing into this software.

Inconvénients

I have no issues with the software so far. it's a nice application

Avantages

The dashboards are easy to build, and his UI is very simple and easy to use.

Inconvénients

When I searched for logs, I found that Datadog used a lot of memory on my computer and was too slow.

Avantages

The system flaw detection and intelligent AI indications are impressively brilliant. It offers real-time tracking and logging, vital for live project monitoring.

Inconvénients

It's complexity and unique interface can pose a learning challenge, especially for monitoring system novices. The latency in updating host decommissioning can be inconvenient.

Avantages

The best feature of data dog is real time monitoring of logs and vulnerability scan which stands unique to save the server and cloud from further damaging

Inconvénients

The datadog user interface is very hard to learn and with the minimum training anyone cannot operate it fully also a lot of integrations are very difficult to operate.

Avantages

-User friendly-Easily implementable-Detailing of Logs-best fit for all organizations

Inconvénients

Understanding Datadog can be difficult, especially for those who are new to monitoring and analytics. Nonetheless, it has a plethora of capabilities and integrations that make it an effective tool for tracking and analysing complex systems. Datadog's pricing may be somewhat high in comparison to other tools of a similar nature, particularly for larger enterprises or those with high data ingestion rates. It offers a variety of pricing plans, including a free plan, to assist organisations of various sizes and needs in finding a plan that works for them.

Avantages

It's pretty easy to get a lot out of Datadog right out of the box -- the AWS and other integrations are amazing and easy to use.

Inconvénients

It's REALLY expensive.It's not so easy to really really tweak the dashboarding and alerts to do more advanced mathematics or analysis.

Avantages

I really like that datadog offers a free tier to get startet with it. It helped building a net of monitoring around our servers and services. We have implemented a wide collection of (they call it synthetic tests) that we use as an continuous integration test suite. We even can monitor the performance of different application versions.

Inconvénients

Even if their locally installed agent on our servers is very flexible and can collect so many information, the configuration via YAML files is difficult to start with. The learning curve here is pretty steep in the beginning.

Avantages

the ease of implimentation and the ability to capture meaningfully info easilyquickly

Inconvénients

it's super expensive....almost cost prohibitive

Avantages

For us the most liked feature of Datadog is the possibility to compare all data that we received from our platform. Being able to compare the platform status, the network status, the performance traces, the logs is really helpful letting us find issues where we couldn't find if we will do it manually.

Inconvénients

Datadog is great but it misses something, for example it could include a self remediation tool. Since every server has already installed a Datadog agent it would be so helpful if with the UX we could add, edit or delete custom checks in python or something like that, and if we could automate some actions programmed in the UX so we could work and integrate with escalation policies, alerts and more.

Avantages

Datadog is a solid and stable product. They provide easy to use features and functionality that sets the standard for APM and Security tools - and their suite of tools is continuously expanding to important areas. The APM capabilities were able to handle our complex technology stack with little to no configuration necessary.

Inconvénients

Not necessarily a con, more of a caution to monitor your consumption.. We worked with the customer success team to ensure our account was right sized based on forecasted usage. In the beginning we had to monitor our on-demand consumption as we outgrew our initial needs, this was handled incredibly well by the Datadog team, but you do need to keep an eye on your own consumption to avoid additional costs.

Avantages

I can handle ALL things in Datadog. I have an answer for CI / Pipelines, arbitrary metrics, trace data, logging and more.

Inconvénients

There are a lot of specific costs. Compare, if you will, with NewRelic (all features are free) or Dynatrace (cost on retention and davis units). If you enable "all the things", it can be costly.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Datadog 

Pourquoi passer à Datadog

Avantages

-Best user experience-Unified view of all metrics. It is a lifesaver when troubleshooting performance issues-A broad range of product offerings

Inconvénients

-Expensive!-The pricing model isn't as flexible as it should be. You can only adjust your yearly contract 3 times per year.-Expect to spend more time managing costs than you would like.

Avantages

If you can afford it. Get Datadog.It's a phenomenal product that keeps getting better every day.Especially if you're using multiple clouds.There are tons of integrations that gives you out of the box dashboards and metrics. Logs are easy to ingest from basically everywhere.It's expensive but the pricing is easy to understand and keep track of.

Inconvénients

It's expensive, there is no other way to say it. But they work hard to make it worthwhile, and for us it is.Beyond that I can't really think of anything.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Datadog 

Pourquoi passer à Datadog

Avantages

Datadog is a very powerfull tools, it allows you to gatehered lot of differents metrics, and create very powerfull dashboard to monitor everything that append in your app (server side) but also to monitor your API or your network. it's a very powerful tool !

Inconvénients

It can be a bit tricky at the beginning to setup your dashboard, there is a learning curve to understand how to implements everythings

Avantages

I need not have multiple monitoring solutions for different Applications. So, creating combined Dashboards/Monitors/Alerts is very convenient.

Inconvénients

Pricing is a little on the high end, but it's definitely worth it .

Avantages

Dashboards. Custom metrics. Ruby integration. Notebooks. Monitors & alerts.

Inconvénients

It takes time to understand each part and understand how to use it. It's a complex thing and if you're not familiar with monitoring systems it could be difficult to figure it out how you can find what you need.

Avantages

The range of integrations for the product allows us to pull every possible metric needed.

Inconvénients

Does have a little bit of a learning curve but provides an excellent learning academy

Avantages

DataDog is able to ingest and make sense of a complicated cloud application without the developer having to understand the infrastructure or program specifically for it.

Inconvénients

That if I could afford it I would turn on all the features 24/7 and use them all.

Avantages

Generous free plan with detailed information both on server and application monitoring.

Inconvénients

Nothing unusual. Being a paid platform, it naturally set limits on its free plan (fair) but, for this reason, you may prefer the responsibility to deploy an open source alternative (to remove those limits) instead of upgrade to a paid plan.

Avantages

Being able to funnel AWS CloudWatch logs into Datadog made speed of deployment of Datadog incredibly fast - days instead of weeks.The log searching and faceting are extremely powerful. It's responsive, everything loads fast, and I can find single log lines in seconds.

Inconvénients

Being able to create facets on historical data would be great.When digging into log lines, being able to navigate back to previous lines that we read through would be great too. Sometimes we're clicking around so fast that a log line is long gone. I end up copying the URL and pasting it into a doc so I can refer back to it.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Datadog 

Avantages

The software can scale with the business needs. You can start with basic features or leverage many as you like (for $$) to gain deeper insights. Engineers once onboarded use it heavily to spot issues or troubleshoot more obscure bugs both in production and development.

Inconvénients

You often need to review usage and costs. Misconfigurations, migration projects (where legacy + new infrastructures are required), integrations which may cause double reporting need to be observed to prevent run-away spend.

Avantages

Service Map, Session Replay, Custom metrics and monitors

Inconvénients

We had a sticker shock after onboarding, as the was the hosts were counted for certain infrastructure was not clear from the documentation.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Datadog

Avantages

Ease of use and flexibility. Beginning teams can leverage out of the box but you can grow into this product as it is quite feature rich. The product just works.

Inconvénients

It is so expensive that we consistently have to trim usage when not needed. Also due to this we have to justify the product constantly

Avantages

Diligence, details and deep of monitoring all detail.

Inconvénients

capturing every single details, validity of details and more importantly capability to monitor everything!!!

Alternatives envisagées 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

Application performance monitoring, server and database monitoring, dashboards & reporting, proactive incident management

Inconvénients

Sythentic queries are difficult to grasp. Need support for more geographies for application performance Monitoring

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

All in one shop. APM, DB monitoring , synthetic transaction and log analysis

Inconvénients

APM does not work well on nodejs asyc services. Might be hard to track transactions.

Avantages

We now have billions of logs hitting Data Dog every month. It's a great tool for monitoring and debugging what is going on in the platform. We have alserts setup based on the logging so we are instantly notified of any issues.

Inconvénients

Some of the JSON parsing on nested logs come out a little wonky. We overcame this by adding specific logs from our applications that we can search on.

Avantages

Datadog provides real-time insights into the performance of applications, servers, and services. It helps you quickly identify and troubleshoot issues before they become critical.Datadog is easy to set up and use. It requires minimal configuration and supports various cloud services and integrations, It provides a comprehensive monitoring system for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.

Inconvénients

Limited Customization Options: While Datadog provides a lot of pre-built dashboards and visualizations, it does not support extensive customizations.Datadog is a high-end monitoring platform, and its pricing reflects that. It can be expensive for small businesses, especially those who don’t have a large budget for monitoring software.

Avantages

It is simple to setup and maintain. Plus the UI is really easy to understand.

Inconvénients

Polling period of the alerts are not short enough. The lowest is every 5 minutes but if a site is down, 5 minutes is too long to wait to see if it is down.

Avantages

Datadog is probably one of the most notable analytics tool out there for large companies. It's easy to track users' flow in terms of what routes they're hitting, when they hit a snag and 404, or other metrics like how performant certain requests are which allows us to identify bottlenecks and get rid of them immediately.

Inconvénients

There is a steep learning curve I will say with this software and needs an expert to help lead tutorials or sessions to get the ball rolling with new tool users. Although there are many built in functionalities and easily customizable features, it can be overwhelming and hard to pinpoint exactly what type of analytics you're looking for. It's one of those softwares where you have to play around with it to get the stars to align and find a model or metric that works best for your customers and use cases.