I use ddog quite extensively but this app leaves a lot to be desired. After some short amount of time of not using the app and then trying to access dashboards again the dashboards will not load and the only way to recover is close/start the app again. You can not enlarge the charts in the dashboard nor see the underlying query for the chart. Also the application nags after each resume to rate the application (the reason why I am writing this review).

DD is basically just an overpriced ripoff of a collection of already established open source tools and this app is just a worthless wrapper around that. The app itself doesn't do much other than display. I mean you really can't do much out of the box. Can't see dashboards unless you own them, searching is so restrictive that you're just wasting your time even looking at it. Basically it requires massive setup and spending days getting everything setup for yourself on the desktop version first. Then just ask yourself, why am I just not using the mobile site via a browser? So then what exactly is this app for? I mean at least they can claim they have an app, but I find it pretty much worthless unless you sunken so much time to setup everything up for yourself using the desktop client that you might as well just save yourself the hassle and just do that meaning this thing is pointless. I guess the have to spend all that money they make ripping off and reselling open source tooling somehow. Give more back to those you are ripping off.

I’m a dev for a large public company that has been getting more and more teams on the datadog platform. Their desktop browser products like APM are truly fantastic. However, in 2025, on-call devs MUST have access to a useful mobile app that has all of the same functionality as desktop. Unfortunately, datadog’s app is hot garbage and needs to be completely redesigned. To make it worse, the website is completely broken in mobile Safari and not responsive at all. I’m going to look for a logging and monitoring platform that has a better mobile site (or app) and pitch it to my team.

Datadog is incredibly powerful. That said, the mobile app is useless. The graphs don’t show proper scales and only show numbers with one decimal place. When looking at percents, that means I’m often looking at graphs with all the same numbers on the y axis. In terms of monitors and alerts, the main thing I want to do is investigate and the app doesn’t have any ability to dig into logs, service info, or traces. In other words, this app provides none of the power of the datadog service, and the functionality it does provide doesn’t even work well enough to give me any information.