Datadog
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Jan 15, 2026first mention
Oct 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“AFAIK, Datadog is still the best/most expensive.”
“I would put Datadog as an "endorse". It's certainly expensive but I feel we get loads of value out of it”
Caveats and dissent
“send them to Datadog with our current retention policy, it would just about double our current IT spend.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Datadog is a monitoring, tracing, logs system, and more, for your infrastructure and services.”
“Datadog is a monitoring, tracing, logs system, and more, for your infrastructure and services.”
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All comments 10
“rely on your existing collector infra (e.g. Datadog (no affiliation), AppInsights, etc.)”
“It connects to datadog (where we store the logs)”
“Datadog isn't just a collector, but the whole querying UI as well, right?”
“at my day job they went with DD despite the costs”
“we use datadog right now”
“querying a bunch of metrics from datadog”
“In our company we use datadog + hotjar but indeed, we don’t have the full story.”
“AFAIK, Datadog is still the best/most expensive.”
“I would put Datadog as an "endorse". It's certainly expensive but I feel we get loads of value out of it”
“send them to Datadog with our current retention policy, it would just about double our current IT spend.”