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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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90 Likeliness to Recommend
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92 Plan to Renew
79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 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
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Fair
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
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
Traffic Monitoring
Network Compliance Management
Operational Dashboard
Network Mapping
Network Configuration Management
Network Analytics
Network Performance Management
Network Environment Monitoring
Network Quality of Service
Network Reporting
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Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Datadog Reviews

Prashant D.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2025
All-in-One Observability with Excellent Dashboards
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog stands out with its fully unified observability platform鈥攃ombining metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and security in one UI. Its broad out-of-the-box integrations (600+), real-time dashboards, and AI-powered alerts make it a go-to for full-stack visibility without needing to stitch together multiple tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of Datadog is its seamless integration across the entire tech stack, providing real-time, correlated insights from infrastructure to applications in a single, easy-to-use platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The biggest downside of Datadog is its complex and often expensive pricing model, which can quickly escalate as you add more hosts, containers, and features, making budgeting challenging for growing teams.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If considering Datadog, start small to control costs and focus on essential monitoring. Leverage its rich integrations for quick setup, but plan ahead for scaling expenses. Customize alerts and dashboards to maximize actionable insights and reduce noise.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Ikponmwosa O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2024
Very Information driven product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
The functionality and its easy to navigate the features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the features and ui
What do you dislike most about this product?
complexity of to much data
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Highly recommended
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Gregory C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
Simplified monitoring with Datadog
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog has an intuitive and easy to navigate user interface. Make sure everything is running smoothly by viewing the status of your service in real time. Slack and PagerDuty can be notified of metrics that meet certain criteria, and you can set thresholds for them as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Doing so help teams deal with issues as they arise by proactively recognizing anomalies and identifying any potential dangers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Mobile support is not available for Datadog. I really wish Datadog had an app so I could use it without having to constantly carry my laptop around.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Intelligible alerts and application performance monitoring are Datadog's strongest points.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation