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What is Datadog?
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
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82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+85 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Datadog?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
- Performance Enhancing
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
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Server Monitoring
Application Metric Reporting
Scalability
Error Reporting
Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)
Code Performance Monitoring
Application Logging
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Automated Diagnostics
Application Request Tracing
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
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Datadog Reviews

Nikhil A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2025
Datadog's APM excels, but costs challenge startups
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog unifies APM, logs, and metrics with AI-driven tracing, 850+ integrations, and real-time dashboards, unlike competitors鈥 siloed tools, enabling faster debugging for MERN apps like habit trackers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Datadog鈥檚 APM, with real-time Node.js API tracing, catches 95% of errors and cuts latency by 20% for my habit tracker鈥檚 Silent Snap, ensuring <100ms performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
log search syntax is clunky, slowing debugging for my MERN app鈥檚 Strapi API errors, and custom metrics setup takes too long for non-experts.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Evaluate it for Node.js performance; use free tier to test integrations. Ensure budget for premium costs; prioritize real-time monitoring for MERN apps like habit trackers.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Vendor's Interest First

Christopher B.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2024
Needed for critical system monitoring
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Enterprise class
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The alerting
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can be complex
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Have a strong IT support system
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features

Siva Sankar C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2024
Perfect monitoring tool for all
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
It have all options to monitor the application, network and System as well
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
APM tool is my favorite aspect
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost and Complexity for the new users to do the admin
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
First check the cost then all are okay go with the free trail check all features if everything works fine then go ahead.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Over Delivered