# Page 5 | Datadog Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 5 - Is Datadog the right Dashboard solution for you? Explore 360 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 (360) [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 April 15th, 2026 # Page 5 - Reviews of Datadog ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 101-125 of 360 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use RB Rachit B. Software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "DevOps on Steroids" December 16, 2024 5.0 Pros Extensibility of functionalities. Ability to drill down into each trace and learning about span breakdown Cons Difficulty in managing so many features and challenges in learning about new terminologies Review Source AA Amit A. SDE Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog review" December 17, 2024 4.0 Pros Reliability. Clean and intuitive user interface. Cons Pricing. Also, the documentation is a bit confusing at times. Review Source ON Omkar N. Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I like datadog" December 16, 2024 5.0 Overall it is really good. With the LLM integrations it is even better Pros Ease of searching through the entire logs generated by my apps Cons There is nothing to dislike, I like the current features alot Review Source AC Andy C. Support Engineer Hospitality Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great for support" December 16, 2024 5.0 Pros The log monitoring feature, I mainly use datadog for support and looking into crashes. Cons There was a bit of a learning curve, but that is to be expected with a powerful tool. Review Source ZHS Zakeer Hussain S. SRE E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Single tool to monitor whole cloud infra. " December 17, 2024 4.0 So far so good, still learning the product. Pros Creating custom dashboards and service monitors Cons Would like few videos to be published on the customization and the features. Review Source HSAH Hafiz Syed Ashir H. Software Engineer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Usage experience for data streams with Datadog" December 16, 2024 4.0 One of the best tool as compared to others to use for logs. Easy to integrate and use. Pros The efficiency and features of the tools, how quickly it can fetch logs and extensive search features. Cons 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. Review Source MV Minh V. Swe Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Review datadog" December 16, 2024 2.0 Average log for enterprise. Pricey but does the work Pros Good for searching logs. Can capture log in real time Cons Hard to search for logs. Too many configurations Review Source WL Whitney L. Business Owner Consumer Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Datadog is a Simple Yet Powerful Performance Metrics App" March 3, 2025 4.0 Pros I like the alerts it gives and areas it categorizes to narrow down any mishaps with webstore and server. It also allows you to integrate from their mobile app on App Store so you don’t have to always get a laptop out to fix any issues occurring. Cons I don’t like that it mobile app is often buggy and glitchy at times especially after version updgrade. Review Source NSS Naga S S. Tech Lead Accounting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Intuitive Monitoring" December 16, 2024 5.0 Pros Really good dashboards and insights. APM is my favorite Cons Better UI with font and style could be useful. Review Source BS Baron S. Director of Software Architecture Insurance Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great product for troubleshooting and monitoring" December 16, 2024 5.0 It's been a valuable tool for our monitoring and troubleshooting. Pros The extensive detail of logging it offers. Cons The UI can be overwhelming. There are so many areas to explore and so many ways to do it. Review Source CB Claire B. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog is very useful" December 16, 2024 4.0 I enjoy using Datadog. I use it every week. It is critical for identifying customer issues. I think I could benefit from more learning resources to know how to do things most efficiently. Pros Visibility into what is going on. I often use View in Context. Cons Sometimes I end up with just SO many tabs! Review Source RF Roberto F. Operations Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "It is worth the investment." December 16, 2024 5.0 Has help find problems, errors. I think it keeps track of everything very well. Pros Error tracing abilities. How everything is put together. I helps to find errors. Cons Some tools are a little bit expensive to have, and there are really good cheaper alternatives. Review Source SE Shai E. SecOps Manager Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good tool, very expensive" December 16, 2024 3.0 Pros Good for analyzing logs, creating basic dashboards Cons Pricing if very high, causes us to reduce retention. Also, the indexing is not great. Review Source AF Angel F. IT Manager Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog has been a game changer for me to easily monitor my applications and infrastructure." November 13, 2024 3.0 Pros I love the customizable dashboards and the variety of integrations available. It has made monitoring a breeze! Cons The cost can be a bit high for smaller businesses and the learning curve for some features is steep. Review Source MP Michal P. Software Engineer Accounting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "datadog for logs" March 10, 2025 4.0 Pros Ability to sort through logs and filter by specific keywords. Cons The UI is a little hard to get used to, so the learning curve is pretty high. Review Source DC David C. Director of IT Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Director IT " March 6, 2025 4.0 Datadog has improved our insights and visibility into database and virtual machine performance. Pros The product is easy to use and gives us better analytics on our databases and virtual machines. Cons The product isn't always perfectly intuitive. Review Source SdRA Sai dileep Reddy A. Software Engineer Consumer Electronics Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Datadog Review " December 18, 2024 4.0 Pros It is well equippywith very useful features Cons It has very useful features, but some of them are not very intuitive which makes it difficult when transitioning from other tool Review Source kT kingston T. BE engineer Banking Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "good but would be better with more tutorials" December 17, 2024 4.0 Pros the amount of features and that i can have multiple tabs of datadog open at once Cons the lack of in depth step by step tutorials/documentation on how to integrate datadog Review Source CA Cojoe A. Founder Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Datadog Review OO" February 4, 2025 5.0 Overall, i would describe my experience with datadog as a good one. It performs task as needed and allows for amazing team control. Pros Analytics power and its user interface, it allows for a seamless work process Cons I dislike the price point of Datadog. I find it a bit too pricey. Review Source BP Belen P. Administrative Consumer Electronics Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Datadog has been a lifesaver for keeping track of our servers and infrastructure." October 17, 2024 5.0 Pros The dashboards and visualizations are top-notch, and the alerts have saved us from downtime. Cons I wish the initial setup was more user-friendly, and the pricing can be a bit high. Review Source AG Adan G. IT Project manager Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good tool for monitoring" June 14, 2024 5.0 Good tool, a bit expensive but worth it. Pros A complete suite to track and monitor applications Cons Sometimes is complete to track an error and complex integration with some clouds Review Source PB Pankaj B. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Monitoring and Observability Tool" February 29, 2024 5.0 Best and good experience with datadog tool. Pros Experience with Datadog is Best. Using this Tool since 1 year. I worked on many monitoring tool but this is the one best for cloud and infrastructure monitoring. Datadog provides many third party tools integration, we did many integration and monitored many services. we can setup the alerts on our services for let us know before any unusual activity happens. and main thing is we can redirect that alerts to our notification channel and our teams to work on that. We can integrated our frontend and backend applications and we can collect logs also for our application and we can more debug it. They have built in dashboard feature we can manually create dashboards according to our use case. we can also create synthetic scripts and synthetic monitors such as ping for testing our website is available or not or its properly working or not. we can query our data and fetch it accordingly. Talking about AWS and azure services integration, Its totally easy our teams hasn't fetch any issue, its easy as it is. overall experience is good while using this tool best for keep our application and services up to date and running. They have active customer service. Cons Nothing to dislike about Datadog, pricing is quite high but this tool has providing you lot more integration and active customer support so you can raise your query and You will get feedback fast. Review Source KR Khatibur R. Platform Engineer Restaurants Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Real time Platform Monitoring Tools" August 30, 2023 5.0 DataDog is the best observability monitoring tool to detect any type of error in the system. The user interface is very simple and customer support and account help our teams in providing training and guidance in case of any issue. It can easily integrate with all third-party tools like Jira, slack, opsgenie Pros 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. Cons 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. Alternatives considered [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.capterra.com/p/204333/Amazon-CloudWatch/) Review Source SB Scott B. Director of Site Reliability Entertainment Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Datadog does a lot out of the box" December 14, 2022 5.0 We are using Datadog to monitor and observe over 3000 distinct video streams for outages. It does the job pretty admirably even if I can't tweak the alerts and dashboards as much as I'd like.It is VERY expensive. But it does a lot. Pros 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. Cons It's REALLY expensive.It's not so easy to really really tweak the dashboarding and alerts to do more advanced mathematics or analysis. Alternatives considered [Grafana](https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/) Reason for choosing Datadog I was not involvd Switched from [Grafana](https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/) I was not involved in the decision Review Source TC Tim C. Director, Software Platform Development Biotechnology Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Everything in a single pane of glass" December 14, 2022 5.0 I have had a great overall experience with the product, the customer success team, and the support team at Datadog. I would highly recommend. Pros 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. Cons 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. Alternatives considered [IBM Instana](https://www.capterra.com/p/179810/Instana/)[New Relic](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/) Reason for choosing Datadog We felt the specific mix of technologies covered by their APM was a differentiating factor for us. Switched from [IBM Instana](https://www.capterra.com/p/179810/Instana/)[Sumo Logic](https://www.capterra.com/p/124188/Sumo-Logic/) 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. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.