About Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age.
Datadog's SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack.
Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
Pricing starting from:
US$15.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Datadog
- Correlate metrics from all your apps, tools, SaaS and cloud providers & services including Amazon EC2, web servers, StatsD, SQL and NoSQL databases
- Easily graph, alert, and analyze your mass of data with real-time dashboards in seconds, not minutes
- Rank and filter performance metrics so you can focus on those that matter
- Get alerted only on critical issues using any metric, for a single host or for an entire cluster
- Zero in on the right code changes, relevant config updates or scheduled jobs
- Support team collaboration with change and comment annotations in-context of your production data
- No-hassle monthly pricing - no long-term commitments, just pay by the month
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English, Japanese
Pricing starting from:
US$15.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Datadog: 121
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- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great platform for logs analysis and cloud monitoring
Reviewed on 20/09/2019
Choosing to use Datadog made my work so much easier to accomplish. The logs analysis is one of the...
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Analytics tool which helps customers and users always get the product you want them to get
Reviewed on 13/08/2019
Overall, having Datadog monitor our apps' performance and customers/users' pain points is invaluable...
Overall, having Datadog monitor our apps' performance and customers/users' pain points is invaluable. It's an amazing tool which lets us identify bottlenecks and better serve our users. Although the initial learning curve of utilizing Datadog's plethora of data analytics tools is steep, it's well worth the effort and price as there is much value to the metrics Datadog provides.
Pros
Datadog is probably one of the most notable analytics tool out there for large companies. It's easy to track users' flow in terms of what routes they're hitting, when they hit a snag and 404, or other metrics like how performant certain requests are which allows us to identify bottlenecks and get rid of them immediately.
Cons
There is a steep learning curve I will say with this software and needs an expert to help lead tutorials or sessions to get the ball rolling with new tool users. Although there are many built in functionalities and easily customizable features, it can be overwhelming and hard to pinpoint exactly what type of analytics you're looking for. It's one of those softwares where you have to play around with it to get the stars to align and find a model or metric that works best for your customers and use cases.
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Google Analytics 360Reasons for Switching to Datadog
Datadog seemed to be more data intensive and specifically geared towards products like ours which really relied on app throughput, performance, and availability. Getting our product straight to the user, in a quick and efficient manner, is our priority and Datadog helps clear any blockers or issues that gets in the way of that.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
It looks very sleek but default integrations won't show you much, so a lot of customization...
Reviewed on 21/09/2017
It allowed us to jumpstart our monitoring.
But in the end we had to switch to a different SaaS...
It allowed us to jumpstart our monitoring.
But in the end we had to switch to a different SaaS provider, even though it costs little bit more, and it's not so well known and widely marketized.
Pros
I liked it very much. So nice to have that event stream and subscriptions. And it's very easy to share your findings with colleagues.
Cons
Default setup is just empty.
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.
And the support team ignored my questions regarding future improvements in Kubernetes plugin.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
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Reviewed on 28/08/2023
Overall very positive. It's a great space for SEOs and Engineers to share when trying to tackle...
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
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Datadog Review
Reviewed on 02/10/2019
Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would...
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.
Pros
- 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.
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Cons
- 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.
Datadog FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Datadog.Q. What type of pricing plans does Datadog offer?
Datadog offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$15.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Starts at $15 per host per month. Pay-as-you-go or subscription terms available. Service includes unlimited integrations per monitored host. 14-day free trial included in all plans. All plans include custom metrics and events. Pro plans include 13 months data retention, metric alerts, and email support.
Q. Who are the typical users of Datadog?
Datadog has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Datadog support?
Datadog supports the following languages:
English, Japanese
Q. Does Datadog support mobile devices?
Datadog supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Datadog integrate with?
Datadog integrates with the following applications:
ASP.NET Zero, AWS CloudTrail, AWS IoT Analytics, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS X-Ray, Adobe Experience Manager, Aerospike, Airbrake, Alcide, Algorithmia, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Cloud Search, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon X-Ray, Amixr, Apache Cassandra, Apache CouchDB, Apache Hive, Apache Ignite, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Apache Tomcat, Apigee Edge, Auth0, Azure Active Directory, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps Server, Azure Firewall, Azure Key Vault, Azure Machine Learning, BigPanda, Bitbucket, Blue Matador, Bonsai.io, Botprise, Buddy, BugSnag, Cacti, Campfire, Catchpoint, Chatwork, Chef Enterprise Automation Stack, Cilium, CircleCI, Cisco Meraki, Cloud Foundry, CloudCheckr, CloudHealth Automation, Cloudability, Cloudflare, CockroachDB, ConfigCat, Confluent Platform, Couchbase Server, Databricks, Desk.com, DingTalk, Docker, Elastic Stack, Fairwinds Insights, Fastly, Flagsmith, Flowdock, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Google Cloud, Google Cloud IoT, Google Cloud Load Balancer, Google Hangouts, Google Workspace, HashiCorp Consul, Hazelcast, HipChat, HiveMQ, IBM Db2, IBM WebSphere Application Server, JBoss EAP, Jenkins, Jira, Kong Konnect, Lacework, LaunchDarkly, Lightbend, Logz.io, MapR, MarkLogic, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Teams, MongoDB, Moogsoft, Moxo, MuleSoft Composer, MySQL, NGINX Plus, Nagios Core, Nagios Log Server, Nagios Network Analyzer, Nagios XI, Neo4j Graph Database, Neustar UltraDNS, New Relic, Nextcloud, Okta, OpenShift, OpenStack, OpsGenie, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), PagerDuty, Papertrail, PerimeterX, Pingdom, Pivotal Tracker, PostgreSQL, Postman, Prometheus, Puppet Enterprise, RBLTracker, Redis Enterprise, RethinkDB, Retool, Riak, Rigor, Rollbar, Rookout, SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SIGNL4, ScyllaDB, Segment, Sentry, ServiceNow, Slack, Sleuth, Snowflake, Snyk, SonarQube, Split, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk On-Call, Squadcast, Statsig, Statuspage, Sumo Logic, Syslog-ng, TeamCity, Tenable.io, Terraform, Traefik, Travis CI, TriggerMesh, Twistlock, Ubuntu Server GUI, Uptime Cloud Monitoring, Varnish Enterprise, Vault, Vertica, Volt Active Data, Zabbix, Zendesk Suite, concourse, iLert, mParticle, mPulse, vSphere, xMatters
Q. What level of support does Datadog offer?
Datadog offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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