The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request.
Datadog equips platform engineers with a robust monitoring system, integrating seamlessly with AWS to enhance infrastructure and application monitoring. It offers outstanding alerting capabilities, aiding in service reliability, yet lacks deeper application insights and real-time updates. Manual agent deployment and complex pricing pose potential challenges. Granular dashboard control and AI integration require attention for better flexibility and efficiency.
