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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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Datadog Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

88 Plan to Renew

72 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


Emotional Footprint Overview

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
68%
Negotiation and Contract:
69%
Conflict Resolution:
69%
Strategy & Innovation:
65%
Service Experience:
58%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+66 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?

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13% Negative
-1% Neutral
88% Positive

Pros

  • Fair
  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Less Effective Service
  • Less Efficient Service
  • Less Caring

Feature Ratings

Average 64

Cloud Resource Management

68

Security and Access Control

68

Consumption Cost Modeling

67

Budgeting and Forecasting

67

Governance Risk and Compliance

67

Reporting and Dashboards

66

Integrations

66

Cloud Tagging

65

Cloud Vendor & Pricing Optimization

64

Process Automation

64

Container Optimization

61

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 63

Business Value Created

75

Quality of Features

72

Breadth of Features

72

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

69

Ease of Implementation

66

Availability and Quality of Training

63

Ease of Data Integration

63

Ease of IT Administration

59

Ease of Customization

56

Usability and Intuitiveness

53

Vendor Support

47

Datadog Reviews

Daniel R.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

DataDog shows the user just what happening

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

Datadog records the Issues on an item level, so issues can be traced back to a single line

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Issue reporting at a fine level, not just the page that failed Each action record can show any related issues hidden in the background

What do you dislike most about this product?

When recording action on a Test script, the user can't manually edit some fields. There are some feature requests still in the works

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Get a demo of your product, even if it's only the first page. You should be able to see the value in the issues reported

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

Cons

  • Less Effective Service

Raymond G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

We love Datadog at Tubi/Fox to track all metrics

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?

It's so in-depth, comprehensive, and customizable in how it lets us make dashboards, monitors, alerts, and track logs for all our metrics. Plus it has many different vendor integrations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the depth, detail, and breadth of all its features and vendor integrations for tracking real-time data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For unclear docs, I see no good way to get tech support besides Datadog's public Slack channel. No 800-number hotline, chatbot, or technical support engineer I can directly contact for help. No way to make customer support tickets. Its docs lacks specific, custom examples a ChatGPT chatbot could help solve. When I have a time gap in data, the graph just draws a straight line between the last 2 data points, though they may be separated by days. I want Datadog stop graphing during time gaps. When I zoom out time to weeks/months, data graph resolution drops big time. Sometimes I see graph spikes that aren't real.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Setting up Datadog with no help may be confusing. Talk to coworkers who've used it before and study their dashboards, monitors, and logs. Set up customer support account to talk to Datadog engineers.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Caring