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title: "Datadog vs Elastic: Which is more popular by branded search?"
description: "Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Elastic? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the SIEM platforms 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 Elastic: Which is more popular by branded search?

Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Elastic? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the SIEM platforms 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 Elastic
- **Competitive set**: SIEM platforms
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Aug 2026
- **Datadog Share of Search**: 49.3%
- **Elastic Share of Search**: 18.4%

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

- In August 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Elastic among SIEM platforms worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 254K branded searches compared to Elastic’s 95K, and held a 49.3% Share of Search versus Elastic’s 18.4%.
- Datadog was ahead of Elastic in every measured month of the 11 months ending August 2026.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Datadog’s estimated Share of Search among SIEM platforms worldwide moved from 38.6% to 49.3%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 257K to 254K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Elastic’s estimated Share of Search among SIEM platforms worldwide moved from 25.7% to 18.4%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 172K to 95K.

## How did search popularity change for SIEM platforms worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Elastic lost estimated Share of Search among SIEM platforms worldwide, from 19.3% to 18.4%.

## Month by month

| Month | Datadog estimated searches | Datadog Share of Search | Datadog rank | Elastic estimated searches | Elastic Share of Search | Elastic rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 257K | 38.6% | 1 | 172K | 25.7% | 3 |
| Nov 2025 | 255K | 42.6% | 1 | 142K | 23.7% | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | 210K | 38.4% | 1 | 141K | 25.8% | 3 |
| Jan 2026 | 255K | 42.7% | 1 | 141K | 23.5% | 3 |
| Feb 2026 | 256K | 42.9% | 1 | 142K | 23.8% | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 258K | 42.8% | 1 | 143K | 23.7% | 3 |
| Apr 2026 | 257K | 44.2% | 1 | 126K | 21.6% | 3 |
| May 2026 | 256K | 47% | 1 | 116K | 21.4% | 3 |
| Jun 2026 | 260K | 46.3% | 1 | 103K | 18.3% | 3 |
| Jul 2026 | 257K | 48.9% | 1 | 101K | 19.3% | 3 |
| Aug 2026 | 254K | 49.3% | 1 | 95K | 18.4% | 3 |
| Sep 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Datadog’s and Elastic’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”, “datadoghq com”, “monitoring datadog” and “observability datadog”, summed into one figure.
- **Elastic**: Measured on the search terms “elastic cloud”, “elastic co”, “elastic enterprise search”, “elastic search”, “elasticsearch” and “enterprise search elastic”, summed into one figure.

- [Datadog profile](/demand/global-en/brands/datadog)
- [Elastic profile](/demand/global-en/brands/elastic-search)
- [All SIEM platforms worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/siem-platforms): The set both shares are measured inside, 5 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 Elastic?

In August 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Elastic among SIEM platforms worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 254K branded searches compared to Elastic’s 95K, and held a 49.3% Share of Search versus Elastic’s 18.4%.

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