What people previously said about Datadog

“Also Datadog is a technical product and has a notoriously strong sales culture. It will open so many more doors.”

“Datadog all day. Trust the unanimous opinion in this thread.”

“Datadog.”

“DataDog easily”

“Would recommend Datadog. Would learn more there as it's a more technical product.”

“I’m an Irish AE, if I were starting again I’d choose datadog all day.”

“Datadog will be viewed much better in future interviews in enterprise SaaS if that's where he wants to go.”

“I’m definitely leaning towards DD”

“Datadog without a doubt if you want to be in enterprise software sales and have more long term opportunities. LinkedIn is not considered serious selling.”

“If you’re Dutch, datadog, if you’re Irish/english/british/ LinkedIn”

“Do datadog, tougher gig but you'll learn a ton and have a path to become a real enterprise seller.”

“Datadog Agent too heavy for cron jobs or serverless? This 159-line Python script sends custom metrics directly via API.”

“downside of yc: datadog will call you 1000x”

“At Large Company that have their own, custom o11y, talked with an eng... who said how much they'd love to use Datadog (or similar) because that would "just" work instead”

“The harness can get data from AWS, Datadog, etc, while its writing code to ground changes based on evidence in production.”

“Posthog, because it never tried to reinvent the wheel, it was already a great analytics tool that now also has first-class support for AI observability - akin to datadog”

“* Pros: Makes a lot of sense if you're already on Datadog, especially for correlating LLM traces with the rest of your infrastructure.”

“Worth having one check that lives outside your stack. Datadog explains why. UptimeRobot tells you whether users can reach you at all.”

“native hooks: github, datadog, new relic, splunk”

“Datadog: $3,200 per month, great UI, still expensive”

“📊 Visualize all agent activity in Datadog, Grafana, or Langfuse with OpenTelemetry.”

“One time I had to do a system optimisation to increase the throughput of messages and was using Claude with Datadog and Couldwatch MCPs to figure out the bottlenecks by running load tests.”

“Getting an offer from Datadog makes that decision look even better”

“Honestly, withdrawing and taking the Datadog offer sounds like the right call. At some point the interview process itself becomes a red flag about the company”

“Congrats on the Datadog offer. Their recruiters on the other hand seem very professional and fast.”

“I withdraw my candidacy after that and accepted an offer with DataDog.”

“The team set it up as part of triage: it connects to Datadog and Sentry to investigate issues, then assigns them to Linear’s coding agent to fix”

“Datadog spend is one of the harder things to forecast because the bill doesn't move when your infrastructure changes, it moves when your telemetry changes, and almost nobody watches telemetry the way they watch infra.”

“If you're using our Private Action Runner with the Datadog Agent, it'll boot about 750x faster now – thanks Ilya!!”

“Hermes just connected itself to 44+ more services Cloudflare Datadog Metabase GitLab Railway DeepWiki And many more”

“Excited to partner with @FactoryAI to make Droid even more powerful for users by connecting to @datadoghq.”

“Then our agents picked up the spike, used PlanetScale Insights MCP and Datadog MCP to trace the logic across services, and fixed it.”