[nodesocket]

Hello. I own and run a DevOps consulting company and use DataDog exclusively for clients. DD works pretty well as it integrates with cloud providers (such as AWS), physical servers (agent), and Kubernetes (helm chart). The pain point is still creating all the custom dashboards, alerts, and DataDog integrations and configuration. Managing the DataDog account can almost be a full-time job for somebody. Especially with clients who have lots of independent k8s clusters all in a single DD account (lots of filtering on tags and labels).

What does ContainIQ offer in terms of benefits over well established players like DataDog? I will say, the Traefik DataDog integration is horrible and hasn't been updated in years so that's something I wish was better. DataDog does support Kubernetes events (into the feed), and their logging offering is quite good (though very expensive).

[NWMatherson]

The dashboard configuration issue was actually one of the pain points we targeted initially. It was an issue we experienced too. And we talked to a lot of our friends who had spent significant time setting these dashboards up in Datadog. One of our initial goals has been to try to automate to get you 95% of the way there without any configuration on your end. We've also tried to make alerting really easy and are working to automate the process of setting smart alerts. Would love to chat more about your experience if you are open to it. My email is nate (at) containiq (dot) com