Datadog Erfahrungen

Great platform for logs analysis and cloud monitoring

Kommentare: Choosing to use Datadog made my work so much easier to accomplish. The logs analysis is one of the best thing that I can have in order to monitor my projects performance and health. This tool performs well and it is really useful. Real time logging works well. Definitely a must have.

Vorteile:

I think that the best features that Datadog has is that you can track and follow logs in real time, something really important to have if your project is live. I like the idea of creating custom views of sets of logs (with custom filters, data parsing and a lot more) and that you can share them with your team.

Nachteile:

It is a bit complicated to set for the first time. Is not quite easy to use or know at first about all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky and can be a blocker sometimes. Following that, if your fields are not mapped in the right way, filters are not that useful.

Datadog is great! Room to improve but definitely the future of observability

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Grafana und Elastic

Warum Datadog gewählt wurde: Pandora was not escalating like we expected and we wanted to search for a unified product that covers everything we need, server monitoring, database monitoring, APM...

Zuvor genutzte Software: Pandora FMS

Great Experience with Supportive dashboard and management of Data.

Kommentare: Great with data monitoring

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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

Powerful and flexible

Kommentare: We can connect traces, logs and events on our infrastructure. We can follow every HTTP request that arrives at our API to the individual services. If errors or other events occure we can see them, as they are connected with each request / trace. This helped us a lot in finding bottlenecks in our microservice architecture

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: New Relic

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: The possibilities to make evaluations were much better back then

Everything in a single pane of glass

Kommentare: I have had a great overall experience with the product, the customer success team, and the support team at Datadog. I would highly recommend.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: New Relic

Warum Datadog gewählt wurde: We were looking to consolidate our output from our cloud provider to reduce I/O traffic and security risk. Also, we felt the use of Datadog would simplify our integrations (and the number of integrations overall) by using a multi-purpose tool.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Sumo Logic

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: We felt the specific mix of technologies covered by their APM was a differentiating factor for us.

Datadog for log analysis of cloud

Kommentare: Till now we have one of the good experience with the data dog as it is helping us a lot in monitoring our cloud and database server. A support from datadog team is also good thing to consider.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

Best Application Performance Monitoring tool!

Kommentare: Datadog helped us solve a critical reliability and traceability problem we had with one of our customers. There was not clear visibility into the root cause of an issue when it happens and that caused finger pointing between teams. While there were other monitoring tools being used, they lacked the capabilities that Datadog has which provided much greater visibility and helped us improve the reliability of our system landscape. Onboarding was a breeze and customer service top notch!

Vorteile:

Service Map, Session Replay, Custom metrics and monitors

Nachteile:

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

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Dynatrace und SignalFx

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: Ease of integration, comprehensive documentation, good community engagement, good customer service, clarity in pricing

One Consol for everything related to monitoring

Kommentare: Excellent.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Solving most of our logs need

Kommentare: Solving lot of debugging problems and close track of our infra system using the alerting mechanism.

Vorteile:

good integrations with collectors. Open text search. Alerting systems. custom downtime for deployments.

Nachteile:

Aggregation and APM metrics. More of alerting. New features to aggregate fields

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Grafana

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: Limited setup time, easy to use interface, less technical savy person can also use it

Good service for logs management and analysis

Kommentare: We used it for querying and analyzing logs in case of problems in our platform (bugs, stability, performance, etc.)

Vorteile:

The searching and filtering capabilities where quite convenient

Nachteile:

The stability issues in the last year got more often than usual, which is quite problematic when you need access to you logs in real-time

Datadog Review

Kommentare: Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would have been great if it had great learning resources to explore it more.

Vorteile:

- The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards. - Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval. - It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs. -

Nachteile:

- A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs. - UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps.

Observability super powers

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Splunk Enterprise und Papertrail

Warum Datadog gewählt wurde: We needed to be able to quickly search and facet logs, and view live logs, and have something that didn't require much more structure than logging out some JSON.

Powerful tool for monitoring business applications

Kommentare: Datadog has been really efficient and useful since through its implementation you can monitor all business applications and thus be aware of its operation whether the same is appropriate or not and if not, you can take the appropriate measures so that the same is again the appropriate performance, that is why having this tool is a great advantage at the business level.

Vorteile:

Datadog is a tool that I like for several reasons, because implementing it does not require technical knowledge, has a series of metrics that allow you to read whether the performance of applications or servers is appropriate or not, so if you find a failure or something out of the ordinary in these applications the user immediately receives alerts that notify him of this problem so that it can be resolved in the shortest possible time, these alerts being received at any time since Datadog works continuously 24/7 and the best thing is that it is a software that is very easy to use and implement, in addition to being extremely flexible because it allows you to choose the monitoring parameters that you want to apply.

Nachteile:

Datadog is not a perfect tool because it has some drawbacks and is that the more applications are integrated with this software the performance or speed of information delivery tends to slow down which should not be since the integrations are to improve even more the performance of said tool.

Best in class APM that can meet all APM, Monitoring, and Logging needs

Kommentare: I love it - i use it for work, I use it for home. I find it amazing for finding problems and monitoring systems.

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Dynatrace, Sumo Logic und New Relic

Warum Datadog gewählt wurde: Better and more reliable.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: Better value, more performant

datadog stuff

Kommentare: i have a great account team that really partner with me. the service is very useful and reliable

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

best monitoring tool on the market

Vorteile:

I like Datadog APM which help our developer to troubleshoot various deep level issues.

Nachteile:

probably the integration with log management with DD trace with APM, as we have some difficulties link the log injested with trace ID etc but some of logs are not linked with APM. I hope there's a better compatibilities with custom PHP application with APM & Log management

Powerful tool for the analysis and monitoring of applications

Kommentare: Datadog is a very useful tool because it is known if the applications, servers or hots are working as they should or if not, we will be aware to prevent further damage solving the problem in the shortest time possible.

Vorteile:

This tool called Datadog I love mainly because it is really efficient and very useful because it allows through it you can carry out a monitoring of the performance of applications in a very simple way, being this through the reading of metrics that are really simple to understand and issue very detailed information that is useful to diagnose the cause and thus be able to solve the problem in the shortest time possible, also is available 24/7 so in case of any fault send immediately a mail informing the same and the best thing is that it has a clean interface, intuitive and easy to use without having technical knowledge to manage it.

Nachteile:

One of its drawbacks is that when it is integrated with a large number of tools it can become heavy, which causes the information to be slowed down.

One Stop Shop for everything

Vorteile:

Correlation between APM, Infra, Log, Network and everything can make it possible to view in multiple dimensions. Also, RUM feature is so strong to cover the end-to-end observability in realtime.

Nachteile:

One of the most expensive tool. And it could be challenged by the management.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Dynatrace

Zuvor genutzte Software: New Relic

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Datadog: Powerful E2E visibility in realtime.

Datadog review

Vorteile:

I liked the fact that DataDog provides an easy-to-use platform for visualizing, monitoring, and alerting on all my infrastructure metrics. It's very comprehensive and the integrated dashboards allow me to quickly identify any issues. It's also great that it can integrate with other technologies, allowing me to have a complete view of my system.

Nachteile:

I didn't like the complexity of setting up custom dashboards and metrics. It was difficult to find the right combination of settings and tools to get the desired result.

Datadog experience

Kommentare: It's a good tool, needs to improve the collaboration of the support team.

Vorteile:

Building Dashboards, Observability at the granular level

Nachteile:

Terminology , need to distinguish different resources and not tag them as one

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Dynatrace

Datadog is a must have for any cloud base infrastructure

Vorteile:

I love the ease of use, the up-to-date documentation, and the product capabilities.

Nachteile:

Support is slow and lacking, costs can get out of control fast and are not straightforward.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Splunk Enterprise

Good tool for APM

Kommentare: It is very useful tool and we hardly getting any downtime issue with the Datadog itself.

Vorteile:

We use Datadog mostly for our infra monitoring and log management. These features are very useful as they are real-time, helps to make sure our services are up and running, provide alerts whenever there's anomaly, and we can always trace back using their logs.

Nachteile:

Pretty pricey and their UI is not easy to understand, first time user will need more time to adjust.

Great web monitoring tool

Vorteile:

Great web monitoring tool if you have the time to dig into all the options and settings. The user interface is really professional and good looking and the charts and graphs are well thought out.

Nachteile:

It requires a bit of server tinkering, which I wasn't familiar with. Not really a minus.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: New Relic

Next-Gen Cloud Monitoring solution

Kommentare: Excellent cloud monitoring solution which gives good visibility across multiple cloud applications.

Vorteile:

Feature-rich cloud monitoring solution which works across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc)

Nachteile:

It takes a bit of time to get familiar with the admin portal user interface.

Awesome application

Vorteile:

I liked the fact that Datadog is extremely user-friendly, making it easy to set up and use. It also provides a great variety of features and integrations that offer real-time monitoring, alerts and analytics. The detailed metrics and reporting make it easy to identify and track performance issues, and the visualizations provide a great way to quickly understand performance trends.

Nachteile:

My least favorite thing about Datadog is the high cost associated with the service.