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Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age.
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It is a reliable and effective tool for tracking the performance of my systems and applications, and I would recommend it to others looking for a comprehensive monitoring solution.
The item I dislike least is that when you decommission a host the application requires up to 24 hours for that host to officially disappear from the list rather than being removed immediately.
Its good, it helped to improve Datalake services and quality of the processes. Integration like Service now, Slack helped to near real time identification of issues.
These plugins they list as available will give you only so very basic info, that it's totally worthless. We had to write our own plugins for each and every service and part of our system.
Reliable, easy to integrate, supports all important types of monitors and events, fast UI. You can easily setup your dashboard for important metrics.
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.
It's easy to set up and configure, it's reliable, and it provides a lot of useful information to help me troubleshoot and monitor my applications.
Filtered tags is very Slow. The integration with another tools is difficult.
Excellent, accurate and easy to read information out of the box. Beautiful in design and appearance.
Our cons are only around our limited devops experience and lack of desire to dive too deep into configuration.
First and foremost ease of deployment. Once you have it installed the dashboards are super informative and allows for easy fault correlation and diagnostics.
Hard to find and understand some metrics. Hard to integrate with other tools.
It does an amazing job monitoring many, many servers and allows for easy organization and reporting by group.
I use it to monitor Windows and setup/configuration is very hard.
For free, this is absolutely the best system info solution on the planet. 90 seconds or less and you're able to get full system performance insights.
Limited reporting/analytics functionalities compared to some alternatives.
Sawan: Hi, I'm Sawan. I'm the Director of Information Security at a privacy business. I would give Datadog a rating five stars. Prior to using Datadog, I've had a lot of experience with different types of observability in monitoring solutions such as Splunk and built-in tools in cloud, such as Azure Sentinel and AWS Security Hub. I find Datadog very easy to use because it is compatible with all of these sources and easy to implement. They often join companies where they need to address gaps and improve their security posture very quickly. Datadog is easy to implement where there is a lack of skills within the organization and easy to scale, also with all of its integrations and very clear billing structure. Integration for Datadog is very easy because it has integrations out of the box from the minute you subscribe to the platform for all leading platforms, including secondary platforms as well. Its integrations are growing all the time. The integrations are quick to implement and done within minutes. The recommendations I have is that you aggregate to correlate and get good insights. When you connect all of these fast integrations into Datadog, you'll get a lot of information. A lot of information becomes noisy, so the key thing to do is to stop at those stages after integrations, and clarify what you want to see and cut out what you do not want to see, so therefore you can move at pace and have a very clean dashboard at the end.
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