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Datadog pricing
Datadog has a free version and offers a free trial. Datadog paid version starts at US$15.00/month.
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Datadog Reviews
Feature rating

- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great platform for logs analysis and cloud monitoring
Choosing to use Datadog made my work so much easier to accomplish. The logs analysis is one of the best thing that I can have in order to monitor my projects performance and health. This tool performs well and it is really useful. Real time logging works well. Definitely a must have.
Pros
I think that the best features that Datadog has is that you can track and follow logs in real time, something really important to have if your project is live. I like the idea of creating custom views of sets of logs (with custom filters, data parsing and a lot more) and that you can share them with your team.
Cons
It is a bit complicated to set for the first time. Is not quite easy to use or know at first about all the available features that Datadog has. Interface is tricky and can be a blocker sometimes. Following that, if your fields are not mapped in the right way, filters are not that useful.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Analytics tool which helps customers and users always get the product you want them to get
Overall, having Datadog monitor our apps' performance and customers/users' pain points is invaluable. It's an amazing tool which lets us identify bottlenecks and better serve our users. Although the initial learning curve of utilizing Datadog's plethora of data analytics tools is steep, it's well worth the effort and price as there is much value to the metrics Datadog provides.
Pros
Datadog is probably one of the most notable analytics tool out there for large companies. It's easy to track users' flow in terms of what routes they're hitting, when they hit a snag and 404, or other metrics like how performant certain requests are which allows us to identify bottlenecks and get rid of them immediately.
Cons
There is a steep learning curve I will say with this software and needs an expert to help lead tutorials or sessions to get the ball rolling with new tool users. Although there are many built in functionalities and easily customizable features, it can be overwhelming and hard to pinpoint exactly what type of analytics you're looking for. It's one of those softwares where you have to play around with it to get the stars to align and find a model or metric that works best for your customers and use cases.
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Google Analytics 360Reasons for Switching to Datadog
Datadog seemed to be more data intensive and specifically geared towards products like ours which really relied on app throughput, performance, and availability. Getting our product straight to the user, in a quick and efficient manner, is our priority and Datadog helps clear any blockers or issues that gets in the way of that.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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Couldn't install
If you can get it running I am sure it's good.
Pros
Looks like it should do the job, less log limits than other products.
Cons
Spent days trying to get it working on a pretty vanilla Windows VM but never could get it up and running. Support pretty much just told me to read the documentation which wasn't really helpful after going over it ten times already. Had similar problem with another product and they could tell me the exact lines of the config and registry that needed changing.
Reasons for Choosing Datadog
PriceSwitched From
Retrace by Netreo- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Must have for your application monitoring and infrastructure management
Overall we are using datadog for application performance monitoring on daily basis an it has really helped us resolve application incidents.
Pros
Application performance monitoring, server and database monitoring, dashboards & reporting, proactive incident management
Cons
Sythentic queries are difficult to grasp. Need support for more geographies for application performance Monitoring
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AppDynamics- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Datadog Review
Overall it's great monitoring/visualizing tool for any organization and I'd recommend, it would have been great if it had great learning resources to explore it more.
Pros
- The filter functionality is great which lets you filter out errors for quick analysis, can easily create custom dashboards.
- Great Visualizations, easy to set up dashboards/monitors with options do maths like ratios, rates, average, interval.
- It can be easily integrated with other apps like Slack to set alerts for failed jobs.
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Cons
- A slow learning curve, lack of resources on how to get useful functionality from UI or APIs.
- UI sometimes be bit slower although not bad if you've integrated with multiple external apps.