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title: "Datadog vs Splunk: Which is searched more?"
description: "Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Splunk? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Application monitoring tools set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
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# Datadog vs Splunk: Which is searched more?

Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Splunk? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Application monitoring tools set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Compared**: Datadog and Splunk
- **Competitive set**: Application monitoring tools
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Sep 2026
- **Datadog Share of Search**: 28.1%
- **Splunk Share of Search**: 16.1%

## Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Splunk?

- In September 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Splunk among application monitoring tools worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 252K branded searches compared to Splunk’s 145K, and held a 28.1% Share of Search versus Splunk’s 16.1%.
- Datadog was ahead of Splunk in every measured month of the 12 months ending September 2026.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Datadog’s estimated Share of Search among application monitoring tools worldwide moved from 25% to 28.1%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 255K to 252K.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Splunk’s estimated Share of Search among application monitoring tools worldwide moved from 20.5% to 16.1%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 209K to 145K.

## How did search popularity change for application monitoring tools worldwide in September 2026?

- Estimated monthly branded searches for Splunk worldwide fell 30.7% over 12 measured months, from 209K to 145K in September 2026.

## Month by month

| Month | Datadog estimated searches | Datadog Share of Search | Datadog rank | Splunk estimated searches | Splunk Share of Search | Splunk rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 255K | 25% | 2 | 209K | 20.5% | 3 |
| Nov 2025 | 253K | 26.5% | 2 | 172K | 17.9% | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | 208K | 23.8% | 2 | 172K | 19.7% | 3 |
| Jan 2026 | 253K | 26.9% | 2 | 173K | 18.4% | 3 |
| Feb 2026 | 255K | 27.2% | 2 | 175K | 18.7% | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 256K | 24.8% | 2 | 180K | 17.4% | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 254K | 27% | 2 | 177K | 18.8% | 3 |
| May 2026 | 255K | 28.1% | 2 | 145K | 16% | 3 |
| Jun 2026 | 256K | 27% | 2 | 173K | 18.3% | 3 |
| Jul 2026 | 254K | 28.2% | 2 | 145K | 16.1% | 3 |
| Aug 2026 | 253K | 28.1% | 2 | 145K | 16.1% | 3 |
| Sep 2026 | 252K | 28.1% | 2 | 145K | 16.1% | 3 |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Datadog’s and Splunk’s names. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brands is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- **Datadog**: Measured on the search terms “apm datadog”, “datadog”, “datadog app”, “datadog monitoring”, “datadog observability”, “datadog software” and “observability datadog”, summed into one figure.
- **Splunk**: Measured on the search terms “splunk” and “splunk siem”, summed into one figure.

- [Datadog profile](/demand/global-en/brands/datadog)
- [Splunk profile](/demand/global-en/brands/splunk)
- [All application monitoring tools worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/application-monitoring-tools): The set both shares are measured inside, 6 brands.

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Splunk?

In September 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Splunk among application monitoring tools worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 252K branded searches compared to Splunk’s 145K, and held a 28.1% Share of Search versus Splunk’s 16.1%.

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