Datadog raises $31M for cloud monitoring

Post by rev_bird » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 1:05 AM UTC

socialist_coder wrote: post #4

Datadog is great. I converted my New Relic monitoring over to Datadog without too much hassle. I was only using the backend monitoring part of New Relic so I didn't miss any of those features. The dashboards are much better, the event stream is really cool, the AWS integrations are great, and the front end is pretty speedy. And the best part, it costs about 5-10x less (which is what prompted the conversion to Datadog…

Post by socialist_coder » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

rev_bird wrote: post #11

socialist_coder wrote: post #4

Datadog is great. I converted my New Relic monitoring over to Datadog without too much hassle. I was only using the backend monitoring part of New Relic so I didn't miss any of those features. The dashboards are much better, the event stream is really cool, the AWS integrations are great, and the front end is pretty speedy. And the best part, it costs about 5-10x less (which is what prompted the conversion to Datadog…

New Relic is second to none when it comes to being able to do deep dives into finding out which API call is causing slowdowns where, but Datadog aggregates data better than anything else I've ever used -- to me, the monitoring part is just a nice side-feature.

Post by socialist_coder » Thu, Feb 05, 2015, 9:29 AM UTC

willxu wrote: post #14

socialist_coder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you are running a supported language / server. That feature doesn't really work at all for .NET web-api apps =(

Product manager from Datadog here. Better .Net (and Windows) support is coming.