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Versatile tool, would love better wallboard support
What do you like best about the product?
* VERY flexible, you can track pretty much any metric
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
* Sources data from the standard statsd
* Dashboard functionality
* Easy sharing of dashboards
* Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
* The datadog agent eats a bit too much memory
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
* The front-end lets you create graphs of virtually any kind, but it's a challenge to make a TV-friendly dashboard that would be readable from distance.
* There are also issues like the user being periodically logged out or the dashboard URL being lost when datadog is down -- every now and then I have to manually come over to the computer connected to a wall TV and fix issues
* It's also annoying that I can't just convert a dashboard between a TimeBoard and a ScreenBoard - it seems like the difference is mostly in the representation, but I have to re-do the whole board if I want to display it on a big screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a robust, versatile solution to track a variety of metrics like number of errors, load and response times, job execution stats, db connection usage, track runs of scheduled tasks etc. Datadog allowed us to implement all of that with one tool, and in a way that we don't have to change the code to change the representation of data. It's a great tool to track the health and performance of your services.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I haven't used many alternatives, but Datadog seems like a great versatile tool. Adding new metrics and creating new dashboards is fairly easy, Datadog will do all the hard work.
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
I hope they implement better support for the use case of putting dashboards on a wall TV, which means:
* I want to set it and forget it. No log outs, no redirects to error or downtime pages that need manual intervention when things get back to work
* Better support for large graphs that are visible from a distance, with no application chrome visible
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DataDog review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure and report to. Also, very easy to set up dashboards and see visualisation of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow real-time updating of visualisation. There's at least a 20 sec lag between reporting of a metric and updating the graph/metric count on the dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reports on service activity, traffic patterns, extremely convenient to track website health, type and count of requests made, etc.
Datadog integrates with the right stuff
What do you like best about the product?
all the integrations are great - even turned me on to new services we could use
What do you dislike about the product?
The linux service is a pain to use, always having to check the manual for how to do anything, even like what its called.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
devops monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
go for it!
Been using Datadog for almost 2 years monitoring at scale APIs and microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Simple dashboards are really easy to setup but also powerful. We're able to easily monitor many parts of our infrastructure with a few easy integrations using already built Datadog agents. Alerting is also great and easy to setup for simple use cases
What do you dislike about the product?
The minute you get into more complicated scenarios the language used to write more complicated queries the documentation is not so great. From my personal experience I've quite a bit of trouble finding documentation even on functions like `rollup` I end up using quite often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and alerting web applications and APIs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you understand the difference between metrics as count or as rate.
Create monitors after any downtime you experience.
Create monitors after any downtime you experience.
Datadog review
What do you like best about the product?
The train and user interface is relatively simple and easy to use. Integration is also just a drop in. The daemon is relatively lightweight
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to convince people to use it over New Relic, but that's a simple matter of brand recognition. The dashboards could be more customizable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly monitoring. It's done a decent job of hooking into other monitoring systems and firing alerts. It's been a good early warning system from time to time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good for APM but I wouldn't try to use it for other dashboards
Datadog provides instance live metrics across a whole stack.
What do you like best about the product?
The available integrations are amazing and really easy to setup. Creating a dashboard to share with your team so you can see instantly see how things are perform (even without having to log in). Also, the dashboards look great on a large TV screen.
What do you dislike about the product?
Writing your own integrations isn't difficult but is time consuming. Sometimes it takes awhile to come up with the right formula for a widget that displays the information you want.
It'd be nice if there was a better way to look at data/dashboards on a mobile device.
It'd be nice if there was a better way to look at data/dashboards on a mobile device.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like with other services we use, speed and reliability are important to us. Using tools like datadog allow us to constantly monitor our servers without having to log into them.
worked with datadog using its postgres monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
easy to use cloud based web app, pretty simple integration into your environment, most of the basic postgres metrics are obtained
What do you dislike about the product?
cloud based only, wished it ran on-premise
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
datadog is easy to recommend to customers that want to run this sort of metrics/monitoring on the cloud in a pay-as-you-go service, easy to use, great user interface
A very user-friendly product
What do you like best about the product?
It is really easy to setup, the UI is clean and very user-friendly. If you have been using a StatsD / Grafana setup you will be delighted by the ease of use.
You can also set alerts that are triggered when a metric reach a certain value which is really useful.
There are also lots of plugins to automatically fetch metrics from databases, message queues, CPU, etc.
Setting up all these services on you own would be very time-consuming.
You can also set alerts that are triggered when a metric reach a certain value which is really useful.
There are also lots of plugins to automatically fetch metrics from databases, message queues, CPU, etc.
Setting up all these services on you own would be very time-consuming.
What do you dislike about the product?
Once we migrated all our servers to an other host. Due to the migration, we ended up paying twice the price for two or three month as we forgot to disable the Datadog agents on our old servers.
So be careful and ask for information if you are hosting your applications on cloud servers and are using lots of short-time instances, it might be very expensive.
Also the documentation states that only 100 metrics are allowed per host, which can be very low depending on the type and number of applications running on your hosts.
In practice, we where sending more than 100 metrics per host and did not have any issues.
The UI is very good. The only thing was that it was not very convenient to change the scale of the vertical axis of a graph.
So be careful and ask for information if you are hosting your applications on cloud servers and are using lots of short-time instances, it might be very expensive.
Also the documentation states that only 100 metrics are allowed per host, which can be very low depending on the type and number of applications running on your hosts.
In practice, we where sending more than 100 metrics per host and did not have any issues.
The UI is very good. The only thing was that it was not very convenient to change the scale of the vertical axis of a graph.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog allowed us to avoid setting up a StatsD / Graphite / Grafana environment which would have been time-consuming.
Powerful and flexible MaaS solution
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog provide many different integrations "out of the box", and it is easy to create custom ones using the API.
What do you dislike about the product?
The website could be more mobile/tablet friendly. It would also be great if there was a mobile app for monitoring metrics and alerts while on the road.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog has allowed us to add extensive additional monitoring of our web-based application, as well as advanced monitoring of custom Oracle database metrics via the Datadog API.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Datadog pricing was a key factor in our consideration. Calculate your estimated usage to see how it compares to other solutions.
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