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Datadog

byDatadog
in
4.5
2025
Market Presence: Observability Platforms, Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Overview

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Product Information on Datadog

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Datadog?

Datadog is a software that offers monitoring and analytics capabilities for cloud-scale applications. The software collects metrics, traces, logs, and events from various sources and provides dashboards, alerts, and visualization tools to help users track the performance and health of systems and services. Datadog integrates with cloud infrastructure, containers, databases, and applications, enabling users to correlate data across their technology stack. The software addresses challenges related to dynamic, distributed environments by providing observability and insights that support incident detection, troubleshooting, and optimization of resources and applications. It is designed to facilitate collaboration between development, operations, and security teams in managing application reliability and system performance.

Datadog Pricing

Datadog software uses a subscription-based pricing model structured by product type with options for pay-as-you-go and tiered plans based on usage volume such as number of hosts, logs, traces, or specific monitoring features, allowing users to select plans that fit different monitoring and analytics requirements.

Overall experience with Datadog

VP, IT
<50M USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“A comprehensive space to handle your observability needs that never stops evolving.”

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
The product is good, consolidating my observability and security needs in a single place has done much to improve my capabilities for monitoring so much with such a small team. But the greater appreciation for Datadog has been the continuous effort in delivering new tools, improvements, and uses. Although I sometimes complain about how often the menu changes, it is nothing short of impressive to see how much gets added to its usefulness on a continuous basis. I also appreciate their effort to engage. My rep is continuously checking in on our experiences and needs, even though we are a small team and a small account.
ENGINEERING MANAGER
50M - 250M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Convenient Screen Recording Features Offset by Unreliable Test Execution Issues”

3.0
Jan 29, 2026
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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2025
For Market:
Observability Platforms

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

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.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2010
Head office location
New York, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
http://datadoghq.com

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Datadog Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(1545 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
53%
4 Star
43%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • VP, IT
    <50M USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    A comprehensive space to handle your observability needs that never stops evolving.

    5.0
    Jun 10, 2026
    The product is good, consolidating my observability and security needs in a single place has done much to improve my capabilities for monitoring so much with such a small team. But the greater appreciation for Datadog has been the continuous effort in delivering new tools, improvements, and uses. Although I sometimes complain about how often the menu changes, it is nothing short of impressive to see how much gets added to its usefulness on a continuous basis. I also appreciate their effort to engage. My rep is continuously checking in on our experiences and needs, even though we are a small team and a small account.
  • Financial Data Analyst
    <50M USD
    Real Estate
    Review Source

    "A Real-time Threat Detection Stand out Wrapped in A High-Stakes Pricing Model"

    5.0
    Jun 9, 2026
    With Datadog, IT security analysts are able to monitor cloud environments for real-time cyber threats, misconfigured permissions and compliance vulnerabilities, enhancing the organization’s security operations. The platform's ability to correlate security events is unmatched, though navigating its billing mechanics requires a dedicated cost-management strategy.
  • Engineer
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Linking Synthetic API Failures To Backend Traces Speeds Up Debugging Process

    5.0
    Feb 3, 2026
    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 ASSOCIATE
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Logging System Facilitates Data Integration and Issue Debugging in Point of Sale

    4.0
    Mar 13, 2026
    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 USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Centralizing Logs, Metrics, and Alerts Streamlines Monitoring and Incident Response

    5.0
    Mar 23, 2026
    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.
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User Sentiment About Datadog
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Datadog Likes & Dislikes

Like

I love that since I have come on board they have been very oriented on expanding the products around security. It is an extremely needed service in today's age, but also an incredibly difficult space to maintain full awareness of all the evolving risks and requirements across the tech stack. From monitoring to research, I love having Datadog as a sanity check that we are making the right choices and keeping a good posture.

Like

Recording browser tests is simple, reliable, and visually friendly. It has simple controls to stop and start the recording and generated test steps that were relatively easy to customize, remove, insert, and rearrange.

Like

I like the platforms built-in AI engine, Watchdog, that continuously scans large volumes of data points in the background instead of relying only on manually configured static alerts; Watchdog uses machine learning to establish performance baselines, automatically detect anomalies and identify the specific root cause of a system failure immediately.

Dislike

The sheer amount of products and different ways of approaching pricing makes it sometimes hard to identify what is used where while keeping track of product offerings and how it relates to billing. Although there are many integrations, sometimes they do not cover my less popular choices. Things move around in the menus a bit too often.

Dislike

The test suite tends to have flaky failures about ~40% of the time, which makes it nearly impossible to rely on for definitive test results. Also, managing large lists of tests is very hard with the current UI and list-based system. One flow with branched logic would require one test per branch, relying on naming conventions and tagging to keep them organized, which is difficult at scale.

Dislike

While the platform is a business leader in visualization, its Granular Multi-Vector charging, which bills separately for hosts, containers, log ingestion, log indexing, custom metrics and APM spans, creates millions of unique combinations, leading to astronomical overage charges overnight if a developer accidentally configures a dynamic variable (like a user ID or Timestamp) as a metric tag.