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“Linking Synthetic API Failures To Backend Traces Speeds Up Debugging Process”
“All-in-One Access Appreciated, Though Volume-Based Billing Causes Frustration”
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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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I like the unified view of synthetics for API tests and APM for code traces. I can set up a synthetic test to hit our login endpoint every minute from 5 different global locations, and if latency spikes, I can click a button to see the exact SQL query or downstream microservice that caused the delay. CI/CD integration for quality gates is also top tier, and we can block deployment if the Datadog performance baseline isn't met.
All in one, easy to leverage one vendor for many services
The fact that everything is in one place. Logs, traces, metrics, alerts. It all ties together and that saves a huge amount of time when you are trying to debug something or respond to an incident. Dashboards are also very easy to set up once you get used to it.
The log rehydration cost and the general pricing for custom metrics is painful. We often have to sample our traces aggressively (only keeping 1% of success logs) to keep costs down, which sometimes means we miss the context on rare edge case bugs. Also, the UI for building complex dashboards can be overwhelming for new hires compared to simpler tools.
Billing - line items / too many SKUs. All volume based and by range. Its also easy to turn on many things and then get a surprise bill at the end. also for how much our startup pays annually, i feel like the discounts should be larger / for any overages should be at the price we negotiated not list price
The pricing. It creeps up on you fast, especially as your data volume grows. You find yourself making decisions about what to monitor based on cost rather than need, which is not ideal.
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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. - 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. - DIRECTOR50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Engineering Teams Find Setup Simple, Though Some Datadog Features Remain Incomplete
DataDog keeps extending and building out features beyond observability that makes it easier as an Engineering leader to measure and monitor Engineering Excellence