About Datadog
Datadog is a cloud monitoring service that collects metrics, logs and traces from servers, containers and applications. It shows this data in shared dashboards and can alert your team when something looks wrong.
What it does
Datadog runs lightweight agents on your hosts and connects to your cloud accounts and common software tools. It gathers performance data and displays it in one place, so teams can check the health of a whole system without logging into each machine. Engineers can also follow a single request across several services to find where it slowed down or failed.
Key features
- Dashboards for hosts, containers and cloud services
- Tracing for requests that pass through many services
- Log collection and search in the same tool
- Monitors that send alerts by email or chat
- Many integrations with cloud providers and developer tools
Who it's for
Datadog suits DevOps, platform and site reliability teams that run production systems on cloud infrastructure. It is most useful when many services and hosts need to be watched together, and when a team wants logs, metrics and traces in a single product.
Pricing and good to know
Datadog has a free tier with limited features, and paid plans are based on usage, such as the number of hosts and the volume of data sent. Costs can rise as data grows, so estimate your host count and log volume before you commit. It is a hosted service, which means your telemetry is sent to Datadog's cloud.
Highlights
- Dashboards for servers, containers and cloud services
- Tracing for requests that pass through many services
- Log collection and search in one place
- Monitors that send alerts by email or chat
- Integrations with cloud providers and developer tools
