# Page 10 | Datadog Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 10 - Is Datadog the right Dashboard solution for you? Explore 357 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/reviews --- Datadog 4.6 (357) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 10 - Reviews of Datadog ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 226-250 of 357 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer National Account Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An excellent monitoring service packed with features at a very affordable price " February 8, 2018 5.0 Pros The integration is fantastic, allowing me to see what's going on at a high level. It's extremely nice to be able to tap into their API from anywhere & install their agent on any server. Along with all that one great feature is to prevent unexpected bills from pulling too many instances, saving me a ton of money. Cons Moving graphs can be difficult due to space when you try to move them horizontally but vertically is fine. Pulling in graphs, while simple, can still be difficult to use when resizing & color coordinating, but it's minor. Review Source PSSK P S Syed K. Senior Technical Advisor Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Datadog review" December 15, 2022 5.0 Pros Real User Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring Cons End to End Tracing for .Net applications Alternatives considered [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) Review Source IC Ivan C. Head Of Engineering Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My review" December 14, 2022 4.0 Great, but unaffordable at scale Pros Application Performance Monitoring and USM Cons It's hard to know up front how much a particular configuration is going to cost Review Source AQ Andy Q. Software Developer Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Maintaining an application" December 14, 2022 4.0 Pros DD is great at ingesting and centralizing logs and infometrics generated across multiple applications within an organization and allows an easy overview, and easily drilling into specific instances Cons It can be difficult making sure the data is being aggregated correctly in the "DD-esque" way Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Assurance Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I very useful app to get realtime metrics" January 12, 2018 4.0 Pros \- very simple to send metrics - great dashboards to display info - easier to create monitors - we can summarize al monitors and composite too - Simple to integrate with other apps Cons \- Not have rate limiter to control some bad metrics - Not have a mobile app, in some case can be faster to get some alerts Review Source GL George L. DevOps Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review from DevOps" December 14, 2022 5.0 Pros APM IntegrationLogs ManagementAlerts and NotificationsEasy to integrate with any cloud "out of the box" Review Source KV Kevin V. Software Architect Accounting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great metrics and monitoring" March 9, 2019 4.0 Overall Datadog has given us great insight into what is going on with our server infrastructure, it has opened our eyes to some issues we weren't aware of. On top of that it's helped send alerts when things are going wrong. Pros Datadog has integrations with pretty much every main software service you can think of. It has pretty robust support for Windows machines and the custom metrics support is great, so you can track anything you'd like. Cons The usability could be improved in some areas, the custom dashboard features are powerful but the syntax can be hard to work with. Review Source JH Justin H. Senior Engineer Newspapers Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Overall expensive but easy to get started" December 16, 2022 4.0 Overall the platform is providing a service to the company getting data in quickly is key to allowing us to monitor our services. Pros Easy to get all of our various sources of data into the platform. Cons Murky pricing model, dashboarding options are limited compared to other products. Review Source rL ryan L. it director Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "DataDog, good for modern apps" December 19, 2022 5.0 Pros It is easy to provision and integrates into modern applications Cons For basic monitoring of our legacy solutions, the software is to expensive Alternatives considered [LogicMonitor](https://www.capterra.com/p/113371/LogicMonitor/) Reason for choosing Datadog Initial pricing, and google integration. Switched from [Argent](https://www.capterra.com/p/171289/Argent-for-AWS/) Looking for a way to monitor our modern software stack. Review Source PVN Phi Vu N. Engineering Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product with Realtime User Monitoring" December 16, 2022 5.0 Pros Realtime User Monitoring is a great feature that helps us to support customer requests. Cons I don't see cons for this product yet. Everything is ok so far. Reason for choosing Datadog I've used it before Review Source KP Keyur P. IT Sr. System Engineer Insurance Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog is great product" December 14, 2022 4.0 Overall, it is a great product and excellent features. Pros Log aggregation, Matrics and Dashboarding Cons APM is expensive feature withing Datadog. Review Source AR Ashok R. SRE Mining & Metals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog experience" December 16, 2022 4.0 It's a good tool, needs to improve the collaboration of the support team. Pros Building Dashboards, Observability at the granular level Cons Terminology , need to distinguish different resources and not tag them as one Alternatives considered [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) Review Source Rayla V. Graduate Research Assistant Higher Education Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "I was hoping this would be a Splunk alternative" September 1, 2019 5.0 Pros Datadog is useful for visualizing and monitoring your cloud applications. If you have agents on you devices, it can analyze a ton of information coming in and show it to you, but that's where it ends, at least, as far as I could figure out in my free trial. Cons I was very hopeful of this software, but I didn't want to throw agents from a product I've never used before on my servers and instances, so I tried to upload a data pull ( about 500,000 log entries) to Datadog, to see what it could do, but there's no way to upload a csv/txt file to the software. It has to be via agents on your services. I know that metadata would be missing from a csv, but it seems like a major oversight to not be able to accept a csv of logs for a new user to experiment at low risk. Alternatives considered [Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/) Reason for choosing Datadog My company decided to stay with Splunk and not switch to Datadog. It has a lot more capabilities. Review Source Gaurav Y. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the great tool to maintain your infra" January 14, 2019 5.0 have made our infra management easy. Pros Datadog is very good for monitoring the applications and the host infrastructure. We have used it for lots of purpose for maintaining the infra like maintaining the kafka servers where we can plug this and can easily see the performance of kafka, it's offset value for different different consumers and lot more. Apart from this, we can also see the application performance with this. Cons Only one negative to say, it is difficult to start with this, writing the query to fetch the details and to do analysis is not easy. You need to learn it. Review Source BC Ben C. VP of Software Engineering Consumer Electronics Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Datadog is an essential partner to our workflow" December 17, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy monitoring and debugging of issues. Cons Pricey for our scale. Some search features are not fully integrated into our main workflow (APM) Review Source MY Maalainine Y. Head of Infra Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very Happy " December 23, 2022 5.0 Pros Datadog is on of the best observability tools. Well integrated in modern cloud infrastructure and applications Cons I would say the cost and cost management. From a FinOps perspective they can do better. Review Source KV Kevin V. Software Architect Accounting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great view of our server environment" February 8, 2017 5.0 Datadog has great support for a variety of different third party systems - Windows machines, linux machines, AWS instances, pretty much anything you can imagine. You can easily slice and dice stats on a good looking dashboard. Provides a good one stop view of your environment. Pros Datadog's Windows support is great, the Windows agent supports detailed IIS and MSSQL statistics. Their RabbitMQ support is good as well - providing good insight into queues. Customizable dashboards are very handy as well. Cons The User interface generally is good but in some instances can be a bit too technical to use. Review Source RR Ravikiran R. Architect Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best monitoring cloud service available in the market" February 16, 2018 5.0 Easy to monitor and easy to share with notebook feature Watch the statistics from virtually anywhere Pros Easy to monitor and get analytics We can monitor inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere Supports multiple dashboards Notebooks help you to share the data Cons More options some time confuses Help documentation needs improvement Some times dashboards are very complex to understand Review Source Eric B. CTO Internet Used the software for: ### "Monitoring Made Simple" July 23, 2014 5.0 After setting up Datadog, the value was immediately apparent. The instrumentation provided out of the box changed hours of troubleshooting to find the source of a problem in to minutes. While it used to take days or weeks to set up instrumentation, Datadog provides tools that make setup and installation simple. We use Chef at SimpleReach and in about 10 minutes, I had Datadog monitoring everything in the infrastructure. Spent a few minutes creating alerts for application metrics and turned what used to be a few weeks of work into a few hours. Coming from a systems administration background, I can't say enough good things about Datadog. Pros Easy setup. Wide range of integrations with common applications. Easy to create custom graphs and metrics on the fly. Cons If you don't already have your applications instrumented with statsd, then it can a little catching up. Also, their default set of metrics limits you to 100 metrics per server (which can be changed easily). Review Source Dainius B. SE and BUM for Baltics Wholesale Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great tool for analyzing the data" October 7, 2022 5.0 Pros I like saas cloud approach, so i wont have to mangle with it, just register and it works Cons i could not see many cons, as i am light user, so i am happy of what i actually get Review Source MR Mbonjo R. Network Engineer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best and excellent cloud-based monitoring and analysis of applications " February 27, 2023 5.0 Overall I love Datadog because of its super enhanced and optimized features ..it's one of the best of it's kind Pros Using Datadog has been an amazing journey, the feature of providing a unified view of the entire infrastructure of the system making it easier to work on makes it amazing Cons I haven't encountered any deficiency using Datadog Review Source DT Darien T. Sr. Linux Engineer Semiconductors Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Datadog for Kubernetes" December 14, 2022 5.0 It is a great tool to have. Pros We use Datadog to monitor our Kubernetes cluster. It is easy to deploy by using Helm chart. Building the charts and graph is easy to learn. Cons One of the charts, I would like for Datadog to change where I can select the date instead scrolling via the shorter duration timeline. Reason for choosing Datadog sysdig Review Source Yannick T. Concepteur Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Avis sur datadog" September 18, 2023 4.0 Mon expérience est beaucoup plus axé sur l'analyse correlative des données extrêmement fiable avec datadog en plus son tableau de bord est configurable ce logiciel est un petit bijou dans la surveillance Pros La surveillance sans agent des périphériques réseaux et son tableau de bord de surveillance personnalisable Cons La fonctionnalité que je décrie est que malgré la personnalisation de son tableau de bord il est moins intuitif que les logiciels similaires Review Source DH Donald H. Software Engineer Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great platform for monitoring logs and figuring out what went wrong" December 16, 2022 5.0 Pros \- easy filter logs and find errors- ability to setup alerts based on logs Cons \- was a little challenging to get the alerts setup just right but once figured out, it was easy going forward Review Source VR Verified Reviewer TAM Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Datadog - monitoring king" August 1, 2022 4.0 Overall great Pros Setup is easy and is highly useful right from the get go Cons It can get expensive depending on the way it’s used Review Source Similar Products Featured