--- description: Review of Datadog Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Datadog | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Network Troubleshooting Software](/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) > [Datadog](/software/101405/datadog) # Datadog Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/101405/datadog Page: 1 / 16\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/101405/datadog?page=2) > Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Datadog's SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 366 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 366 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Datadog - **Founded**: 2010 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$15.00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Starts at $15 per host per month. Pay-as-you-go or subscription terms available. Service includes unlimited integrations per monitored host. 14-day free trial included in all plans. All plans include custom metrics and events. Pro plans include 13 months data retention, metric alerts, and email support. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English, Japanese - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein and 18 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Analytics - Anomaly Detection - Application Management - Application Security - Application-Level Analysis - Archiving & Retention - Asset Tracking - Audit Management - Audit Trail - Automated Discovery - Availability Testing - Baseline Manager - Bottleneck Identification ## Integrations (163 total) - ASP.NET Zero - AWS CloudTrail - AWS IoT Analytics - AWS Lambda - AWS Step Functions - AWS X-Ray - Adobe Experience Manager - Aerospike - Airbrake - Akka - Algorithmia - Alibaba Cloud - Amazon Cloud Search - Amazon CloudFront - Amazon Cognito ... and 148 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Network Troubleshooting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) ## Related Categories - [Network Troubleshooting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4786/network-troubleshooting-software/software) - [Observability Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4534/observability/software) - [IT Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4563/it-management/software) - [Automation Testing Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4187/automation-testing/software) - [Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4360/artificial-intelligence/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Its centralized visibility makes it easier to identify issues and monitor system performance. > > **Cons**: The platform can have a steep learning curve, especially for new users. Pricing can also become significant as the number of hosts, logs, metrics, and monitored services increases. > > Datadog has been a powerful observability platform for monitoring infrastructure, applications, logs, and system performance. Its extensive integrations and real-time monitoring capabilities make it useful for identifying issues and understanding system behavior. The platform is feature-rich, although navigating the many features can take time to learn, and costs should be carefully managed as usage grows. ----- ### "Essential for teams" — 5.0/5 > **Robert** | *17 December 2025* | Food Production | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The ability to integrate it with nearly any application has proved to be essential for bringing multiple legacy systems under one easy view. > > **Cons**: The cost can get out of control if you don't monitor it. It has to be treated like AWS/Azure/Google where you have someone monitor it's usage. > > After bringing Datadog to two companies it has proved essential to bringing observability to all. Having unlimited seats means everyone has access to the tools needed for visibility. ----- ### "Tagging is essential" — 4.0/5 > **Sam** | *11 August 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: With the correct tagging strategy, datadog becomes very easy to use. This does take some planning is well worth the effort. > > **Cons**: Very expensive tool, with new solution costing more and more on top of the standard ingestion costs. ----- ### "Datadog Has It all,Favorite Tool in My Professional Work" — 5.0/5 > **Vivien** | *13 May 2026* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Datadog centralize logs ,metrics and traces all in one place which helps to detect and trouble shoot issues easily before the cause costly harm.Integrate with wide variety of tools which makes it super flexible for monitoring. Offer powerful dashboards and visualizations that allow detailed reporting. > > **Cons**: Datadog pricing plan is complex and confusing ,must be keen to avoid unplanned costs and wasteful licensing > > Overall Datadog is very powerful for monitoring and observability and have easy to use dashboards.Does a fantastic job of monitoring logs ,usage and setup alerts. ----- ### "My experience with Datadog" — 4.0/5 > **Jad** | *17 December 2025* | Hospitality | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: In General: I like the customizability coupled with the ability to have a centralized place for most of our monitoring needs. I like that there were many cases where I needed a feature to do a task and was able to come up with a hack that enabled me to fulfill my task even though the feature was missing from datadog. Security: I like that we have centralized most of our security alerting through Datadog SIEM, it makes it easier for incident management. Value for Money: Datadog is well known for being expensive, but we try to balance cost vs value. Customer Support: Customer support is pretty good, documentation sometimes is lacking or old and good customer support compensate for that. Log Management: This maybe the best value about Datadog, log management / pipelines / generating metrics / etc are very powerful and are great tools Bugs and Issues: if this means bugs in Datadog, then yes I have faced a few but contacting customer support resolved most them. Data Analysis: Dashboards / Notebooks containing logs / metrics / events / network / etc makes Data Analysis for me easier and faster. Project Management: Don't have much to add in this area. > > **Cons**: What first comes to mind is cost, you have to actually need the feature to get approval for the cost associated with its price. > > Generally my experience is pretty good, I like the product and I feel like its a valuable tool for me to be able to do my job. ----- Page: 1 / 16\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/101405/datadog?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/101405/datadog) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data