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Datadog

byDatadog
in
4.6
2025
Market Presence: Observability Platforms, Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Overview

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
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ENGINEERING MANAGER
50M - 250M USD, Software
CRITICAL

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

3.0
Jan 29, 2026
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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

4.6

(1546 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
53%
4 Star
43%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • 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.
  • 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.
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User Sentiment About Datadog
Reviewer Insights for: Datadog
Deciding Factors: Datadog Vs. Market Average
Performance of Datadog Across Market Features

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

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

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.

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

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

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.