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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 9 - Reviews of Datadog

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Scott S.  
Head of Engineering  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy to setup and use"

December 14, 2022

5.0

Pros

Easy to use, wide range of features all in one solution

Cons

dd-agent setup in Aptible is not usable or difficult

Reason for choosing Datadog

previous use and familiarity

Review Source

Uddipan M.  
Senior Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Datadog - Monitoring Datalake infrastructure"

July 31, 2021

4.0

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.

Pros

Datadog works great as a log aggregator. Useful features such as alerting and notification helps support teams to take quick actions. Dashboards help to visualize issue trends.

Cons

Datadog can improve on connecting custom metrics through an external database

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JI

Jahiezer I.  
Desarrollador  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "one of the best software for monitoring in the market"

June 27, 2018

4.0

Pros

This software allows to monitoring all you need and also can find lots of solutions for a high gama of cases. by using this app i be able to see the problems that me and my team have, so we can solve it by utilizing all the data that datadog provides. Works in differents OS and that make things more easy

Cons

The proces to instal and put in march this softwre can be a nightmare if you have not experience, it is really complicated. Though the software have nice tools, the price is not the best in the market, is posible to find something good for lowes price if you know what are you loking for. And finally haved some problem with some data transfer working with this app but i really dont konw what was the razon why

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Damian N.  
Chief Executive Officer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "DataDog is one of our must-haves"

June 6, 2019

5.0

Pros

It's got everything that's needed for infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting. It also fits extremely well into our Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm where everything we set up is kept in a git repository as a Terraform project. DataDog is what we recommend and implement for our clients, and provides more useful features than Sensu.

Cons

Metrics and monitors don't render correctly on mobile phones. It's totally unusable in portrait mode, and barely usable in landscape mode.

Alternatives considered

[Sensu](https://www.capterra.com/p/182813/Sensu/)

Review Source

KJ

Kaschief J.  
Aviation Enthusiast  
Airlines/Aviation  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great Experience with Supportive dashboard and management of Data."

April 6, 2023

3.0

Great with data monitoring

Pros

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.

Cons

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

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Denis V.  
MS SQL Server DBA  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Datadog as Perfect monitoring tool."

February 9, 2018

4.0

Pros

Perfect monitoring tool. You can monitor your infrastructure as on premise as in the cloud by monitoring performance counters of different applications and collecting information from logs. You can monitor your infrastructure as in real time mode or just receiving alerts for example to email. It allows you to use different ready solutions with predefined logic for to monitor even different software such as: SQL Server, MySQL and so on. It can be integrated with different products such as slack, where you can receive different alerts and where slacks bot can perform setuped actions. You can create different dashboards for your convenience.

Cons

No suitable for all cloud services, for example if you're going to monitor your infrastructure in Azure it would be better to use Azure's Log Analytics. This solution is not for non-experienced users and required time to learn it . Features used in free price tiers very limited for example no alert capabilities.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
ICT Business Solution Manager  
Mining & Metals  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The best monitoring tool"

October 19, 2023

5.0

Pros

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

Cons

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

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JL

Jay L.  
Enterprise Architect  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "One Stop Shop for everything"

December 17, 2022

4.0

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Alternatives considered

[Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/)

Reason for choosing Datadog

Powerful E2E visibility in realtime.

Review Source

NJM

Neyda Jose M.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Powerful tool for the analysis and monitoring of applications"

May 20, 2019

4.0

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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GR

Gaspar R.  
Principal Infrastructure Engineer  
Media Production  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Excellent product"

December 16, 2022

5.0

We're monitoring our complete stack, migrating from Heroku to AWS

Pros

Ease of use and integrations. Log management is outstanding, as well as Kubernetes integration

Cons

Lack of a simple Prometheus integration. Agent configuration docs (for specifics) is sometimes hard to find

Alternatives considered

[Grafana](https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/)

Reason for choosing Datadog

Easy to integrate with, without too much configuration

Switched from

[New Relic](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/)

Pricing and capabilities

Review Source

CZ

Christina Z.  
it specialist  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Datadog"

February 28, 2023

5.0

Pros

A lot of fun for less money. Great software for monitoring kubernetes infrastructure. Very clear dashboards, monitoring is very intuitive, great to use. Setup is simple and installation of the agent on PC was seamless. Aggregate views into one clear dashboard and monitor all metrics at the same time according to various filters and parameters. Many additional features to enrich the data. User friendly.

Cons

In the time I have been using it I have not found anything that would not suit me with DataDog I have been very satisfied and it has met my expectations.

Review Source

Joaquín E.  
Ingeniero en sistemas  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very good experience"

February 21, 2018

5.0

Pros

The dashboards are very clear, it helps us to look for errors in our apis easily. Apart from that, it is great that you can create custom dashboards

Cons

Somethings, when you have a lot of apps is very difficult to find the dashboard that you really want.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
CEO & Founder  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "One of the default server monitor tools in my list."

May 16, 2018

5.0

Pros

The best about datadog is the simplicity. Ranging from the dashboard to the addons everything is done smoothly and in a proper manner. The pricing is very fair and the free tier allows many to explore it's possibilities.

Cons

The dashboard could expand a bit more, also the ping are quite inconsistent. I have tested them together with other services and datadog throws more false negatives than other tools.

Review Source

HRG

Hyma Roshini G.  
Software Quality Analyst  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Datadog log monitoring"

March 2, 2023

5.0

Pros

Able to see spikes on the dashboard , easy and fesiable

Cons

Takes more time sometimes to monitor logs

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Tracey M.  
Professional Freelancer  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to get going and sorted and set up. Consistent and reliable software package"

March 8, 2018

5.0

Pros

At the initial install of the trial I loved it. Its all we required in an app of this nature with a sys monitoring system and an API. Made life a lot simpler for the business needing this software I was advising. They are very happy with it and continue to use it now.

Cons

No real cons that spring to mind. A great product. I would recommend starting with a list of what you need from software, then what you would like then a nice to have list. See how many ticks this software gets. Compare it to at least two pieces of other software of the same nature before making your final decision. This is what I recommend for any piece of software. Also, check out their own forms of customer support, and social media sites to see what other customers have had to say about the software.

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Daniel P.  
Innovation and product developer  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Using for monitoring multiple servers health"

March 9, 2018

5.0

Let me know every time when my server is down. Great monitoring tool.

Pros

The implementation is easy. Let you know in real time if your server is down or is failing. The best tool I found. It's always sending mails when the server fails in any way.

Cons

Should have mobile app or mobile notifications. If you are not in the programming field you should get someone. The code is easy to implement but if you don't know the right place to call at the right function (assuming you have datadog code on a lib of your system) you wont get the data you need or in the way you need it.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Principal Software Engineer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Cheap and Easy Log Management"

December 14, 2022

5.0

Pros

Log Management for DataDogHQ is: Cheap, Easy to Use, Great Timeline UI.

Cons

I think searching for logs by text has not always been the easiest to do.

Review Source

Gloria A.  
Comptable  
Investment Banking  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Datadog est bon"

November 28, 2023

5.0

Pros

Datadog est un logiciel permettant de collecter des métriques et événements.

Cons

On rencontre à des moments donnés des problèmes de connexion

Review Source

NT

Nat T.  
Sr Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Fairly happy though I miss Kusto"

December 14, 2022

4.0

Pros

Datadog provides a single place to collect all our metrics/logs/traces and integrated ways to look at them.

Cons

Some of the search is unintuitive, for example, it's sometimes hard to search traces. I miss Kusto for exploratory log analysis.

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Filip T.  
Software Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Essential tool for infrastructure and application monitoring"

February 7, 2018

5.0

Pros

Datadog is one of my favorite tools in every day work. Some of my favorites include: - great API, - very flexible and informative dashboards, - great integrations with various providers and application, which greatly improve visibility, - a lot of libraries (eg. ruby-kafka) which integrate with Datadog, - easy to deploy in numerous ways, ie. Kubernetes, ECS, Ansible.

Review Source

RM

Rafeek M.  
SRE Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "One of the best monitoring tool"

December 19, 2022

4.0

Pros

Metrics collection and it's representation, also would like to engage in RUM and synthetic monitoring.

Cons

All are good, nothing to suggest anything

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Sr. Test Engineer I  
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "A robust, but complicated tool."

September 26, 2020

4.0

We primarily use DataDog as a monitoring and communication tool. Alerts are sent out daily to a wide variety of users and non-users to keep them up to date on what is happening, when it happened and when it was recovered.

Pros

It has a great UI feature. It offers a variety of integrations with other third party software. Communication e-mail reports are valuable, even to non-users of the tool.

Cons

It can get very expensive to use and can be extremely complicated to use. There is a steep learning curve to try to get users up to speed with the needed functionality of the tool.

Review Source

rB

ryan B.  
SEO manager  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Datadog review"

August 28, 2023

4.0

Overall very positive. It's a great space for SEOs and Engineers to share when trying to tackle things like Core Web Vitals

Pros

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

Cons

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

Review Source

MH

Matt H.  
Devops Engineer  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Datadog is a must have for any cloud base infrastructure"

December 16, 2022

5.0

Pros

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

Cons

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

Alternatives considered

[Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)

Review Source

RP

Rushabh P.  
Technical Specialist  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Overall Datadog is a good tool for Monitoring and Log Processing "

December 14, 2022

5.0

We are using Datadog for Monitoring services and Server performances. We also use if for log processing. Overall it has been a good experience.

Pros

The Ability to pattern millions of log entries.

Cons

The performance of the log ingestion reduces if more than 200 files are open. We have to constantly restart the agent and reach out to support but do not get much help.

Reason for choosing Datadog

Pricing, Support, and Better visualization of logs

Review Source

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