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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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93 Plan to Renew
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81 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
- Acts with Integrity
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
Transaction Request Performance
Server Monitoring
Scalability
Application Metric Reporting
Error Reporting
Synthetic Monitoring (RUM)
Code Performance Monitoring
Automated Diagnostics
Application Logging
Enterprise Cloud Platform Support
Application Request Tracing
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Breadth of Features
Ease of Implementation
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
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Datadog Reviews
Vishwjeet S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2025
Datadog the best APM & RUM tool with high security
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog has the capabilty to show all the integration steps within the UI itself, which makes it quite different from others and the correlation between their sub-products is also the best thing
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy to navigate from one UI to all over the products using small-small integrational clicks is the best aspect
What do you dislike most about this product?
The deployment of RUM tag within the application, once i've deployed the js tag to my application webpages then want to increase the session sampling rate so i need to redeploy the tag to tha application again.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I strongly recommend the product to everyone, but there is one suggestion that kindly check the hidden charges of the datadog
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Unique Features
Sreekesh S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2025
Powerful monitoring tool with great visualization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Datadog from other similar products?
Datadog is simple to set up, gives live insights, and fits smoothly with cloud platforms.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite part is how seamlessly it pulls data from multiple sources.The alerts and visualizations save a lot of time during debugging.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes the UI feels a bit overwhelming with too many options.It takes a little time to get used to all the features and settings.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use alerts wisely to avoid noise and focus on critical issues.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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’ siloed tools, enabling faster debugging for MERN apps like habit trackers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Datadog’s APM, with real-time Node.js API tracing, catches 95% of errors and cuts latency by 20% for my habit tracker’s Silent Snap, ensuring <100ms performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
log search syntax is clunky, slowing debugging for my MERN app’s 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
