Datadog, founded in 2010, offers a robust, cloud-based platform for comprehensive infrastructure monitoring. Known for real-time tracking and intuitive dashboards, it helps teams quickly identify and resolve performance issues.
Pricing
Offers multiple plans, including a Free tier with basic features for upto 5 hosts Pro plan starting at $15 per host per month, Enterprise plan starting at $23 per host per month.
Things To Consider
Can become expensive at scale.
Some reports of a steep learning curve for new users.
Benefits
Datadog, founded in 2010, is a robust, cloud-based platform that offers extensive monitoring capabilities across your infrastructure. Known for its real-time data tracking and intuitive dashboards, Datadog helps teams quickly identify and rectify performance bottlenecks.
Open Source: Not open source, but offers API integrations.
Capability to ping an API from different geos/IPs: Offers global testing locations to simulate user interactions from around the world.
Uptime statistics and report: Provides real-time uptime monitoring with comprehensive reporting capabilities.
Automated analysis on API/Page performance: Delivers automated insights into API and page performance to quickly identify bottlenecks.
Script/code-based setup vs UI-based setup: Supports both script-based configurations for detailed setups and a user-friendly UI for simpler interactions.
Functional testing of features: Allows the creation of multi-step API tests to check complex interactions.
Status Page extensibility: Integrates with external status pages to communicate uptime and downtime events.
Community Feedback: Generally positive, especially for its user-friendly interface and powerful analytics. Some users find alerting can be complex to configure.
