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Powerful and flexible MaaS solution
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog provide many different integrations "out of the box", and it is easy to create custom ones using the API.
What do you dislike about the product?
The website could be more mobile/tablet friendly. It would also be great if there was a mobile app for monitoring metrics and alerts while on the road.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog has allowed us to add extensive additional monitoring of our web-based application, as well as advanced monitoring of custom Oracle database metrics via the Datadog API.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Datadog pricing was a key factor in our consideration. Calculate your estimated usage to see how it compares to other solutions.
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Simple to setup, easy to monitor
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of setting up was what I appreciated the most. It was easy to setup with our automated deployment tools as well (Chef).
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very hard to use the freemium version of the tool without dodging countless sales people. Additionally, they shut-off your free account after so many days and force you yo speak to a sales person before you can get it enabled. Update: It also appears now there is a plan downgrade option to circumvent the call to sales. This was the biggest turn off to my evaluation of it. The other note here, is that we were looking for a self-hosted option due to security concerns. At the time, this was available with them but perhaps it has changed by now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance monitoring of several key applications that we host.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Beware the sales calls
Amazing for server monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Perfect real time dashboards to checkout traffic metrics, server status, and hardware performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very complex for new users. There is too much information and the UX is not perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog is the perfect platform to monitor servers. I use it to gather metrics, create custom alerts and analyse server traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can complement its usage with New Relic.
A nice dog after all
What do you like best about the product?
* A very flexible monitor, you can track a lot of things (there are more than 100 possible integrations)
* Also a server health checker.
* Unbeatable custom dashboard creator: you can basically mix everything you want to track into a single dashboard without problems.
* Custom tracking stats: With it's powerful event-tracking API you can build your own statistics and gauges so you can measure what you really want to.
* Also a server health checker.
* Unbeatable custom dashboard creator: you can basically mix everything you want to track into a single dashboard without problems.
* Custom tracking stats: With it's powerful event-tracking API you can build your own statistics and gauges so you can measure what you really want to.
What do you dislike about the product?
* Steep learning curve: As powerful as it sounds, requires some level of skill to understand every aspect of the service and get the exact measurements you want. Datadog is huge.
* Some prebuilt alers were not working: this is a very subjective subject (hehe) since I might be caused this problem, I didn't give it enough research time.
* Partial service integration: Sure there are 100+ services to integrate with, but some of them only shows basic and somewhat trivial statistics, not so useful at first so you need to learn and implement your own statistics.
* Some prebuilt alers were not working: this is a very subjective subject (hehe) since I might be caused this problem, I didn't give it enough research time.
* Partial service integration: Sure there are 100+ services to integrate with, but some of them only shows basic and somewhat trivial statistics, not so useful at first so you need to learn and implement your own statistics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm monitoring 10+ servers with it. It's worth every penny and hour I used to learn Datadog. Every morning I turn on my terminal and the 3 custom dashboards show me what I want to see, I feel like a Matrix operator.
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