Datadog

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You dont have to manage anything, you just setup your agent and you have monitoring done.

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Documentation is not public available, i dont understand why.

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Simple onboarding and unified metrics. Easily track both frontend and backend performance in one place, accelerating issue resolution and optimization. There flexible pricing models, including session sampling, make the solution ideal for projects of all sizes.

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While the mobile app is convenient, its functionality is somewhat limited compared to the full desktop version.

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UI experience is good. Data retrieval and visualisation is fast

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Filtering logs is not very awesome. problems with multiline log ingestion

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APM and single pain of glass. This makes it easy to get host metrics for resource utilization and an easy traceback for exceptions.

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Searching logs is not as intuitive as I would like. Text search doesn't work when logs are sent as JSON. Simple grep would make things easier.

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Ease of use, extensive features, intuitive design. By far the easiest observability platform I've ever used while also being the most feature dense. Impressive, and improving faster than I can even keep up.

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Datadog support leaves much to be desired. They tend to be extremely dismissive, often trying to close the ticket as quickly as they can without offering any help. You really need to ask for escalations or hop on a call to get legitimate help the majority of the time. There is a long-running inside joke at our company that any bug we find will only get the response "ok, we can put in a feature request"...

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End-to-end observability, great search and analytics capability

Nachteile

Can be expensive, especially at scale. They also introduce new features for free but then charge you later.

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Intuitive UI, and feature packed. Setting up dashboards has been a breeze. Most recently I set up several Synthetic tests for my organization and I was pleasantly surprised with its capabilities. Great documentation to support various features overall.

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My organization has complained about cost of the product.

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Datadog is an excellent tool for monitoring real-time application errors, information, warning logs, and overall infrastructure to ensure performance and reliability.

It is a fully stable application. We enjoy working with it, and we are impressed by its performance. There is no slowness at all, and there is zero downtime. It is a one-shot tool that provides a complete solution to all your requirements with the best customization capability.

Nachteile

A few improvements are expected: the UI should be more user-friendly, and a help menu with "How to customize easily" should be added for those using it for the first time.
No data visualization.

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It's very complete and supports all kinds of observability tools. The UI is friendly and uniform

Nachteile

I can't customize the left hand side menu and hide features that I never need.

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- Centralized observability
- Rich features, covering end-to-end stack
- Good UI/UX experience
- Rich integration with other libraries and frameworks
- Reliability and scalability

Nachteile

- The pricing model is too rigid. It can be expensive when you have the scale.
- The pricing model can be too complicated to understand
- No startup or credits offering

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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.

Nachteile

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.

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I can see everything in one place and it helps me identify and fix problems quickly

Nachteile

It takes some time to learn how to use all the features. It's also a bit expensive

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RUM has helped us in identifying the frustrations of end user, visibly view how the end user is interacting with our application and ultimately serve our users better and improve usability for them. Also the Datadog monitors for monitoring CPU and memory usage have been a real game changer in resolving memory leaks.

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Something to improve on is capture information logs whenever required in the RUM sessions in case we want to debug certain scenarios even before errors happen.

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The security measure from the program has been well implemented, and it resolves all the data needs.

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The most efficient data resolving needs are well captured by Datadog.

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very good experience overall. It helps us to check the logs very easily.

Nachteile

sometimes it has downtime, so our work is interrupted.

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The dashboard in datadog is very customizable, allowing me to view metrics and logs to my preference. This in my opinion, allows me to work very efficiently.

I also appreciate the alerting system as it helps me catch and identify problems.

Nachteile

The learning curve was a bit hard to understand at first, as there was a lot of options at the start that makes it feel overwhelming.

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Exhaustive it covers almost every aspect of monitoring an application

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Documentation. Mastering the product is hard given it covers so many aspects. However documentation can be improved with more samples and easier doc navigation (it relies too much on blog samples)

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I can logs from various environments and with many options to filter and seerch so I can tweak the settings and see the logs I am looking for.

Nachteile

I found it a bit difficult to get my head around where to find what and how to make a simple query - but then it's probably because I was completely new to Application Performance Monitoring tools in general. Once I used the tool for some live debugging I got the hang of it :)

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Ease of integrataion. Both alerts, metrics and log aggregation in one place. Website Synthetics was very useful too.

Nachteile

Data ingestion cost can be too high at times if not controlled in a granular manner.

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Creating custom dashboards and service monitors

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Would like few videos to be published on the customization and the features.

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They provide great features for cloud monitoring and compatible with most of the monitors. UI is fast and support team is very responsive

Nachteile

It can be complex for someone who is new to monitoring systems and integration is quite difficult with other tools

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The extensive detail of logging it offers.

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The UI can be overwhelming. There are so many areas to explore and so many ways to do it.

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Visibility into what is going on. I often use View in Context.

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Sometimes I end up with just SO many tabs!

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

Nachteile

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

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The dashboards and visualizations are top-notch, and the alerts have saved us from downtime.

Nachteile

I wish the initial setup was more user-friendly, and the pricing can be a bit high.

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As a backend developer, I find Datadog extremely useful for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces in real time. It integrates well with most tools and services we use, making it easy to identify bottlenecks or errors. The dashboards are highly customizable, which helps with specific backend performance tracking.

Nachteile

The pricing becomes expensive as usage scales, especially for log ingestion. Some of the advanced configurations, like setting up alerts for specific backend metrics, can take some time to figure out.

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Easy of use and integrations make Datadog very compelling. I am also a big fan of the out of the box dashboards and views that help out teams provide value quickly to the products they support.

Nachteile

Sometimes that ease of use can be too much of a crutch. I find that creating useful monitors and queries is challenging because I am not allowed access to more advanced features or search criteria I am not aware of.

The cost of using Datadog and the numerous areas of billing has really been a big struggle. Not having a set price for using Datadog, the constant increase with new, on-demand services and understanding all the categories I can be charged for is becoming a huge pain point in my organization

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It is so easy to implement a monitoring stack including logging, tracing, metrics, and logs

Nachteile

pricing is so high, you need a lot of money to have datadog in all your services

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Dashboard creations & Error Tracking and Alerts. Also, great support.

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You cannot filter the menu on the left. It is a lot for a newbie.

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The UI and UX is intuitive for the most part.

Nachteile

Depending on the product being used, UI can be alittle overwhelming and complex.

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An excellent tool for solving all problems. It includes tracing capabilities and distributed tracing. Metrics and logs are real-time. It also offers RUM for user monitoring across different devices, custom metrics, as well as seamless integration with incident response tools.

Nachteile

I'm nitpicking, but the IaaS code needed to write monitors isn't intuitive. The API data is convoluted and quite confusing when it comes to writing complex monitors. There is a workaround to copy and paste the JSON from the Datadog UI, but reading what the monitor does directly from the code is quite a chore.

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The support from Datadog team along the year to tackle bugs and also beta testing new products and providing feedback

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The fact that we need a PhD to be able to understand Datadog pricing model XD

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The easy of visualizeation and searching vs any other platform.

Nachteile

Navigating is difficult, it relies on you memorizing icon means what, or what dropdown a service falls under.

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It's large feature-set and integrations that make setting up new alerts and dashboard easy

Nachteile

It is very complicated at times and we end up not using things very efficiently.

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Connecting several services together for the whole picture.

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Not being able to share my dashboards on slack daily anymore since the last workflow updates.

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The quality of insights it produces out of box is amazing. Earlier we were using a set of different tools for monitoring and logs but it helped us consolidate them giving us over 80% in cost s saving and a much better picture of whats going on

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Implementation can be challenging to start with but once we successfully updated our based docker images, it was quite easy to roll it out to more services

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A powerhouse of a tool for monitoring every bit of application stack, infrastructure, state of business

Nachteile

A lot of options and functions sometimes makes it hard to find the one you need

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User friendly UI/UX. Easy to navigate and finding different functions of application is quite easy

Nachteile

The side navigation menu can be better.
Search Explorer for logs filtering is not very efficient. The checkboxes flicker

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One-stop shop for logs and infrastructure status

Nachteile

Hard to teach new users where to find things at times. Especially with Monitors.

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Everything is packed into one platform, that makes it the single point when it comes to monitoring.

Nachteile

Support for Maven and Gradle is not so great. It doesn't really know how to check for actual dependency versions used in my project.

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APM, the wide range of available features.

Nachteile

The UI can be a bit sluggish/slow at times. Can be pricy

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The most I like about the data is trace of the apis and Service Catalog showing all the important details of API. apart from these pipeline feature as well.

Nachteile

I very much like datadog, but the UI of log section can be imporved. It looks a but clutter.

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Works very nice when you need to collect logs from multiple different platforms/environments. Good monitoring/alerting capabilities.

Nachteile

As a large tool it has its own learning path. Takes some time to learn different concepts, but well worth time investment

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All-in-one out of the box solutions for observability

Nachteile

Documentation is lacking in certain APIs. Specifically, the python SDK seems to have features that aren't mentioned in the documentation for dashboards. The widgets are able to accept **kwargs that exist in the JSON definition in the dashboards, but not in the documentation

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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.

Nachteile

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.

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Based on how it is set up and connected you can find all your logs in one place.

Nachteile

no cons I can think of at the minute as it meets our needs

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Aggregations and APM. The way i can investigate my accidents is awsome

Nachteile

Pricing is very very hight compared to competitors. So this might be an overkill for some companies that in a beginning.

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Trace, Log, Notification, DataDog RUM, Error Tracking

Nachteile

Monitor, Performance Monitoring, DataDog Log for Front End (React)

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DBM really help us in indentifying the slow queries and co-relating it to the service call.

Nachteile

The APM feature in which how to find memory leaks is little behind than competitors

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Creation of custom dashboards.
Event tracing is easier to debug by developers.

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Login is bit of a hassle. Have to go through SSO every single time.