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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
Vendor Capability Ratings
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

Sufiyan S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Full of features, but little pricey and confusing.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
It has so much of features and also it has support for lots of integrations. Its APM monitoring is best in class than other tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
APM monitoring is the best feature of Datadog.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's not quite user-friendly, at start it's very confusing to understand.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Datadog is a very feature-full product for almost all of your software/IT monitoring needs. Especially if wanted good APM monitoring, then I totally recommend Datadog.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Shubham T.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Datadog has helped our company for many aspects
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Coustmer service
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Network monitoring
What do you dislike most about this product?
Coustmer Service response time
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Yes definitely for network monitoring
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Matthew F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Great product, really like the interface. Dynamic
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
ease of integration and UI were the big factors.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The UI for sure. I can get a lot of data just by clicking through and not needing to dig through menus
What do you dislike most about this product?
needing agent configs for some types of workloads that are no persistent. (ElasticBeanStalk for example)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Understand what it is you're looking for. Infrastructure, vs cloud infra, vs APM software. And how that impact deployment and maintenance.
Pros
- Reliable
- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Fair