Back to Fastren

Datadog

Paid
monitoringobservability

Datadog provides a unified, end-to-end monitoring and security platform for cloud-scale applications, infrastructure, and logs.

Try it out

Monitoring and security platform.

Datadog integrates and automates infrastructure, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring, and security monitoring into a single platform. It uses agents deployed across your environment to collect metrics, logs, and traces, which are then correlated and visualized in custom dashboards. This provides developers, operations, and security teams with real-time insights for troubleshooting, optimizing performance, and identifying threats in complex distributed systems. Its strength lies in its extensive integrations and ability to provide a comprehensive, single pane of glass view across diverse technologies.

Pros

  • Comprehensive observability with unified metrics, logs, traces, and security events in one platform.
  • Extensive out-of-the-box integrations with hundreds of technologies, cloud providers, and services.
  • Powerful custom dashboards, alerting capabilities, and machine learning-driven anomaly detection.

Cons

  • Can become very expensive, especially for organizations with large data volumes or extensive usage of multiple features.
  • Steep learning curve for new users due to the platform's breadth and depth of features.
  • Alerting can sometimes be noisy if not configured meticulously, leading to alert fatigue.

Key features

  • Infrastructure Monitoring
  • APM (Application Performance Monitoring)
  • Log Management
  • Security Monitoring
  • Real User Monitoring

Integrations

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesDockerSlack

Target audience

DevOps teams, SREs, developers, and security professionals in organizations of all sizes needing comprehensive observability and security for their cloud and hybrid environments.

Ratings & Reviews

0.0

Based on 0 reviews

Key Metrics

Active Users

25K+

Founded

2010

Headquarters

New York, New York, US

Pricing Tiers

Free Tier

Monitor up to 5 hosts with limited features for infrastructure monitoring.

Free

Cloud Infrastructure Professional

Comprehensive infrastructure monitoring per-host, per-month.

$18/mo

APM (Application Performance Monitoring)

Full-stack application tracing and analysis, priced per host and per-million traces.

Starts at $31/mo

Frequently Asked Questions

Top Alternatives to Datadog

ElasticSearch

Popular alternative with overlapping features and a strong user base.

LogRocket

Well-regarded competitor with similar workflows and integrations.

New Relic

Trusted option for teams comparing capabilities and pricing.

Ready to get started?

Join thousands of users and see how Datadog can transform your workflow today.

Visit Datadog