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Easy way to monitor your entire infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it integrates with other tools. Any infrastructure we make in AWS will show up in Datadog with metrics to alert on. The dashboards are also very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that the agent sometimes will take longer than expected to send metrics to Datadog.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to monitor all of our infrastructure with alerts and Datadog fit our needs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Great easy to use service
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to set up custom metric collection and dashboards. You get a lot of metrics collected automatically when you integrate with cloud providers like GCP. You get a lot of insight out of the data you collect.
What do you dislike about the product?
High price. Charged per. We're migrating off of it at work because we can't prevent it from charging us for every new ephemeral host we start with Dataflow on GCP etc. Usage based billing would make more sense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking whether data is flowing in pipeline. We use data to drive analytics and recommendations engine, so this makes sure our uptime is as high as possible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be mindful of cost. May not be compatible with serverless styles.
Modern Effective and scalable onitoring
What do you like best about the product?
DataDog keeps up with features and platforms that modern team deploy and maintain. For example K8S and Containers
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI can ben less than intuitive and could use some more UI tips IMO
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance and availability monitoring
Excellent tool for monitoring everything in your infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog is a monitoring service that gives you a great overview of the state of your infrastructure at any given time. I like how it works almost out of the box with many popular frameworks such as nginx, celery and django. The documentation and tutorials provided on the official website are quite good, and since Datadog widely adopted, it's easy to get one's questions answered.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is sometimes hard to characterize log messages to the desired severity. There's lots of widely used applications which log by default to stderr, and this causes Datadog to classify everything they log as an error, when it is not the case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have set monitors so that we're alerted whenever our services are behaving in a way that could signify a problem (ie, database having high latency, high error rates in website etc)
We also have set up dashboards to have an overview of all our services and we use the Live Tail feature of the logs to see and share logs without needing to log-in to remote machines.
We also have set up dashboards to have an overview of all our services and we use the Live Tail feature of the logs to see and share logs without needing to log-in to remote machines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have even slightly complex infrastructure (ie, more than three types of microservices running) then it's likely you can benefit from using Datadog to monitor that everything is running smoothly.
Best APM out there.
What do you like best about the product?
-Very easy to use
-It works for all technologies that we are using
-its helps us writing our own parse logs and integrate them
-Graph functionality within dotadog is very advanced as compared to other apm's
-Staff is very supportive
-It works for all technologies that we are using
-its helps us writing our own parse logs and integrate them
-Graph functionality within dotadog is very advanced as compared to other apm's
-Staff is very supportive
What do you dislike about the product?
Soemtimes working with the dashboard is little hard and i think the datadog agent eats a much memory as compared to other monitoring apps
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It really helped me out because its very convenient to access it from anywhere or from any Device by any browser or the app.
Monitoring and Analytics with Modern day apporach
What do you like best about the product?
Monitoring of Docker containers and other containerization methods and approaches.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only available for modern deployment methods and not for legacy deployments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment is done through a image and containerized thru the docker images.
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Greate monitoring landsacpe to have.
Great monitoring platform
What do you like best about the product?
Data dog does a great job of providing a "single pane of glass" consolidated dashboard view of of our live applications and giving us a single go-to source of truth for performance monitoring.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI can be slow to load at times and is not 100% intuitive when setting up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application Monitoring and Alerting
Excellent monitoring and operational metrics for cloud and containerized applications
What do you like best about the product?
Highly performant visualizations and metric math. Very cost effective for their metric service.
What do you dislike about the product?
Logs service is expensive, although reasonably so. Somewhat frequent issues with metric ingest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operations monitoring and application performance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's easy to do a detailed evaluation for free or nearly so.
Datadog has proven invaluable
What do you like best about the product?
The Datadog team keeps building new features that we need before we even know we need them! They are so quick to add features and fix bugs that we report.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not really a dislike but their APM and logging still lag behind some of the more mature products out there. They are rapidly improving both though and they're very much usable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building monitors and alerting on what matters rather than just alerting on any issues that arise. It's allowed our NOC to be more efficient in responding to critical events by filtering out the noise. It also provides a detailed yet simple view for non-engineer folks to see what's going on throughout our network.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely do a POC with Datadog. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to on-board employees and get them building monitors and dashboards. It's better than what you're using for monitoring and is rapidly becoming a great logging and APM solution.
A very powerful APM
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog is used by multiple teams in our company to constantly monitor the infrastructure and make sure that the systems are working smoothly.
Datadog offers a simple and very easy to use interface which makes it easy for us to train the new team members on the tool.
Datadog also offers a vast variety of integration with third party tool which makes it easy for us to build custom reports and alerts.
Datadog offers a simple and very easy to use interface which makes it easy for us to train the new team members on the tool.
Datadog also offers a vast variety of integration with third party tool which makes it easy for us to build custom reports and alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. The initial deployment of the tool can be a little challenging especially if you have not used the tool before.
2. The delays in the monitoring agents can be reduced as sometimes it is very critical to receive the alerts in real time and delays can lead to system failures.
3. The pricing of the tool is also a bit high as compared to other APM's.
2. The delays in the monitoring agents can be reduced as sometimes it is very critical to receive the alerts in real time and delays can lead to system failures.
3. The pricing of the tool is also a bit high as compared to other APM's.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog is used to constantly monitor all the system resources and raise alarm if any resource is not working as expected
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Datadog can be really helpful if you want to build a alerting and monitoring system for your resources.
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