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Updated 13th October 2025
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Engineer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“Linking Synthetic API Failures To Backend Traces Speeds Up Debugging Process”
It is the source of truth for our performance engineering. I often use the application performance monitoring and synthetic tab. The ability to link a failed synthetic API test directly to a backend trace ID has saved us countless hours of debugging intermittent issues. However, the billing model is complex, and you have to be extremely careful with custom metrics and log indexing, or the cost will explode.
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50M - 250M USD, SoftwareCRITICAL
“Convenient Screen Recording Features Offset by Unreliable Test Execution Issues”
The DataDog synthetic testing product has convenient screen recording options but unreliable test execution and poor test management UI, making it very hard to manage large test suites and rely on results.
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Datadog specializes in providing a comprehensive monitoring platform for cloud applications. It collects data from diverse sources such as servers, containers, databases, and third-party services, aiming to make the stack fully observable. By offering these features, Datadog assists DevOps teams in preventing downtime, addressing performance problems, and ensuring optimal user experience.
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Public
Year Founded
2010
Head office location
New York, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
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Linking Synthetic API Failures To Backend Traces Speeds Up Debugging Process
It is the source of truth for our performance engineering. I often use the application performance monitoring and synthetic tab. The ability to link a failed synthetic API test directly to a backend trace ID has saved us countless hours of debugging intermittent issues. However, the billing model is complex, and you have to be extremely careful with custom metrics and log indexing, or the cost will explode. - IT SERVICES ASSOCIATE1B-10B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Logging System Facilitates Data Integration and Issue Debugging in Point of Sale
I primarily use datadog to get the logs from 3rd Party, injecting it an our application, then after updating the same data integrate it info Point of Sale. With this logging system we see that data is integrated without any loss of required data and in POS readable form. also I use it to monitor server load and with the help of graphs and data we know where we need to improvise. - Audit Associate<50M USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Centralizing Logs, Metrics, and Alerts Streamlines Monitoring and Incident Response
Overall, Datadog has been a solid tool for us. We use it for pretty much everything: logs, monitoring, APM, alerting, incidents. Having it all in one place makes life a lot easier. It's not perfect, pricing can get out of hand as you scale, but day to day it does the job well and the team relies on it heavily. - Engineer1B-10B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Support Team Knowledgeable, Tagging and API Policy Enforcement Requires Enhancement
I've been working on a two of my previous jobs with Datadog as a preferred o11y tool for the past 6 years. KAM and support area really well knowledge people and the way we can onboard or test new features is something i really like on my new org. - Software Developer50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Smooth Team Integration and Observability Balanced by Steep Initial Adjustment Period
Overall a very pleasant experience. The UI and the product as a whole has come a long way since the last time we used it a few years ago. Comes with a lot of useful features that are both user friendly and easy to understand.
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