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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Key benefits of Datadog \- Correlate metrics from all your apps, tools, SaaS and cloud providers \& services including Amazon EC2, web servers, StatsD, SQL and NoSQL databases - Easily graph, alert, and analyze your mass of data with real-time dashboards in seconds, not minutes - Rank and filter performance metrics so you can focus on those that matter - Get alerted only on critical issues using any metric, for a single host or for an entire cluster - Zero in on the right code changes, relevant config updates or scheduled jobs - Support team collaboration with change and comment annotations in-context of your production data - No-hassle monthly pricing - no long-term commitments, just pay by the month ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 358 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Datadog - **Founded**: 2010 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 15.00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Starts at $15 per host per month. Pay-as-you-go or subscription terms available. Service includes unlimited integrations per monitored host. 14-day free trial included in all plans. All plans include custom metrics and events. Pro plans include 13 months data retention, metric alerts, and email support. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English, Japanese - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein and 18 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Analytics - Anomaly Detection - Application Management - Application Security - Application-Level Analysis - Archiving & Retention - Asset Tracking - Audit Management - Audit Trail - Automated Discovery - Availability Testing - Baseline Manager - Bottleneck Identification ## Integrations (166 total) - ASP.NET Zero - AWS CloudTrail - AWS IoT Analytics - AWS Lambda - AWS Step Functions - AWS X-Ray - Adobe Experience Manager - Aerospike - Airbrake - Akka - Alcide - Algorithmia - Alibaba Cloud - Amazon Cloud Search - Amazon CloudFront ... and 151 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/113/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/113/website-monitoring/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/270/application-monitoring-performance/software) - [Data Centre Management Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/277/data-center-management/software) - [Statistical Analysis Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/361/data-analytics/software) - [App Development Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/370/application-development/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Customer service wasn't very knowledgeable about the software. ----- ### "Great tool to monitor our infrastructure" — 5.0/5 > **Tamer** | *25 April 2025* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The dashboards and monitoring were very good. The ease of use was the best thing about Datadog. > > **Cons**: The agent on the Linux server was stopping suddenly, so we had to SSH to the server and restart the service to have the monitor working. > > My experience was good, Datadog is leading in this industry, and I hope they will get better syntactic monitoring ----- ### "Review datadog" — 2.0/5 > **Minh** | *16 December 2024* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Good for searching logs. Can capture log in real time > > **Cons**: Hard to search for logs. Too many configurations > > Average log for enterprise. Pricey but does the work ----- ### "All in one observability tool" — 5.0/5 > **Sonal** | *22 December 2025* | Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use with all the observability features at one place including logs,trace,metrics and now the new AI features. > > **Cons**: It’s sometimes difficult to list few features like the metric summary and custom metric volume as the site is slow. ----- ### "Satisfied Customer" — 5.0/5 > **Venelin** | *15 December 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Simple onboarding and unified metrics. Easily track both frontend and backend performance in one place, accelerating issue resolution and optimization. There flexible pricing models, including session sampling, make the solution ideal for projects of all sizes. > > **Cons**: While the mobile app is convenient, its functionality is somewhat limited compared to the full desktop version. > > We leveraged this tool to monitor a complex infrastructure, including EC2 instances, Redis, ElasticSearch, MariaDB, PHP, VueJS-based web applications, Socket connections, and other critical components. It's robust features and capabilities allowed us to gain valuable insights into our system's performance. Using the option to add custom metrics opened new way of monitoring our project. ----- Page: 1 / 16\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/91489/datadog-cloud-monitoring?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/91489/datadog-cloud-monitoring) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-MX | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data