Datadog is used to provide detailed insight into our infrastructure and Saas applications across multiple environments. It is a single interface that brings all our data together into a combined view and allows us to analyze, troubleshoot, and monitor our systems both in production and other environments. We have recently added several of Datadog's security tools, which have enhanced our overall security posture and helped us improve how we manage security on our systems.
Pros
Correlate logs across multiple systems and technology
Provide tools for querying and analyzing logs
Combine infrastructure and application information into a single related view
Pull information from AWS and display it in meaningful dashboards
Cons
With all the information that Datadog gathers, you can sometimes get lost in a breadcrumb of screens as you drill into information.
Understanding how Datadog can impact your cloud costs by the extra load and queries it performs could be improved and made more transparent.
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog shines in analyzing application logs. By taking multiple logs and combining the data together into a single "flow", it makes it easy to understand how user actions and data flow through the system.
