Distributed Tracing

Founded in 2010 and based in New York, Datadog offers a cloud-based platform that integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management. Known for its comprehensive observability suite, Datadog helps companies improve uptime, optimize performance, and accelerate go-to-market efforts.

Pricing

Variable, based on the monitoring and data volume. Visit the website.

Things To Consider

Complexity and Cost: Can be complex to set up and may become costly at scale.

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Benefits

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Open Source: Datadog is a commercial product with some open-source agents and APIs available on GitHub.
SDK: Proprietary SDK but supports Open Telemetry SDK
Benefits:
- End-to-End Transaction Visibility: Exceptional ability to monitor transactions from end-to-end across the entire stack.
- Latency Detection and Analysis: Effective at identifying and diagnosing sources of latency.
- Error Propagation Tracking: Traces errors back to their source quickly and efficiently.
- Alerts and Notifications: Robust alerting system that notifies teams of issues in real-time.
Community Feedback:
- Generally very positive, with high marks for integration capabilities and comprehensive monitoring, price may be an issue.