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Datadog review
What do you like best about the product?
The cluster visualization is amazing ! Easy to integrate with Amazon Web Services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( EC2 ) , Amazon Simple Storage Service ( S3 ) , Amazon Relational Database Service ( RDS ) , Amazon RedShift , etc .
What do you dislike about the product?
I did not have any big problems with the Datadog . Easy to set up , easy to use .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring our cloud infrastructure .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Free free to setup on top of your infrastructure and monitor your cloud much easier and in a very understandable way .
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I wish Datadog were available in the good old sysadmin days. It's just amazing.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to get up and running in moments was a key element in choosing the service, as well as the ability to have the system dynamically adapt graphs and alerts based on other criteria than hostnames, such as aggregating counts across datacenters, system types, or any other arbitrary dimension that made sense to our team.
What do you dislike about the product?
One negative mentioned was if you already have your apps instrumented with statsd then there is a little catching up to be done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traditionally there are systems that concern themselves with a particular set of metrics or services, and rarely lend themselves to being used by more than a single team (ops vs dev). Each team may end up using something that works for them, and getting cross-team correlation becomes that much harder.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In my progress towards disposable infrastructure the ability to forge ahead with getting the work done, instead of struggling with reconfiguring the monitoring systems, graphs, deployment methods, and other parts of what are now complex ecosystems of services, has been invaluable.
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.
User friendly GUI and flexible parameter choice
What do you like best about the product?
Multi platform support
Easy to use GUI
Customizable dashboard
Easy to use GUI
Customizable dashboard
What do you dislike about the product?
Command line installation on windows is cumbersome
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application monitoring is made very easy using datadog. Everything is managed and integrated.
Datadog is spectacular
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to create my own dashboard so as to monitor what I think is important at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
It seems to run a little slower than some other similar programs although not so much as to be a problem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am utilizing it to determine the proper coding to create the most efficient programs possible
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a good program for what it does do
Nice product
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup with AWS instances
good documentation
good documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
Datadog doesn't provide on-premise solution
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business and application monitoring
Datadog is a good boy!
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Datadog makes it extremely easy to visualize the amount of data that my app is using and the metrics that it employs along with the visualizations to keep you appraised of how the app is doing in terms of latency is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't dislike anything about it yet, so far it has been everything I need it to be and then some.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Datadog to deal with business problems including making it much easier to visualize the amount of data that my app is using and to find out metrics that it employs along with the visualizations to keep me appraised of how the app is doing in terms of latency are also very helpful.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is very easy to implement Datadog to begin analyzing and visualizing various aspects of your app beyond the basics that amateurs look at.
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.
Simple to setup, easy to monitor
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of setting up was what I appreciated the most. It was easy to setup with our automated deployment tools as well (Chef).
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very hard to use the freemium version of the tool without dodging countless sales people. Additionally, they shut-off your free account after so many days and force you yo speak to a sales person before you can get it enabled. Update: It also appears now there is a plan downgrade option to circumvent the call to sales. This was the biggest turn off to my evaluation of it. The other note here, is that we were looking for a self-hosted option due to security concerns. At the time, this was available with them but perhaps it has changed by now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance monitoring of several key applications that we host.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Beware the sales calls
Amazing for server monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Perfect real time dashboards to checkout traffic metrics, server status, and hardware performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very complex for new users. There is too much information and the UX is not perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog is the perfect platform to monitor servers. I use it to gather metrics, create custom alerts and analyse server traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can complement its usage with New Relic.
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