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

Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Grafana? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Cloud observability 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 Grafana
- **Competitive set**: Cloud observability platforms
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Aug 2026
- **Datadog Share of Search**: 34.1%
- **Grafana Share of Search**: 44.9%

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

- In August 2026, Grafana had more branded searches than Datadog among cloud observability platforms worldwide. Grafana was estimated to have 335K branded searches compared to Datadog’s 254K, and held a 44.9% Share of Search versus Datadog’s 34.1%.
- Grafana was ahead of Datadog 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 cloud observability platforms worldwide moved from 32% to 34.1%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 257K to 254K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Grafana’s estimated Share of Search among cloud observability platforms worldwide moved from 42.1% to 44.9%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 338K to 335K.

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

Neither Datadog nor Grafana moved beyond provider rounding among cloud observability platforms in Aug 2026.

## Month by month

| Month | Datadog estimated searches | Datadog Share of Search | Datadog rank | Grafana estimated searches | Grafana Share of Search | Grafana rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 257K | 32% | 2 | 338K | 42.1% | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | 255K | 32.8% | 2 | 335K | 43% | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | 210K | 30.1% | 2 | 331K | 47.6% | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | 255K | 33.5% | 2 | 335K | 44% | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | 256K | 34% | 2 | 338K | 44.9% | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | 258K | 30.5% | 2 | 408K | 48.3% | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 257K | 34% | 2 | 341K | 45.1% | 1 |
| May 2026 | 256K | 34.1% | 2 | 338K | 45% | 1 |
| Jun 2026 | 260K | 34% | 2 | 335K | 43.7% | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | 257K | 34.3% | 2 | 335K | 44.7% | 1 |
| Aug 2026 | 254K | 34.1% | 2 | 335K | 44.9% | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Datadog’s and Grafana’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.
- **Grafana**: Measured on the search terms “apm grafana”, “grafana”, “grafana apm”, “grafana app”, “grafana cloud”, “grafana com”, “grafana loki”, “grafana monitoring”, “grafana observability”, “grafana software” and “observability grafana”, summed into one figure.

- [Datadog profile](/demand/global-en/brands/datadog)
- [Grafana profile](/demand/global-en/brands/grafana)
- [All cloud observability platforms worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/cloud-observability-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 Grafana?

In August 2026, Grafana had more branded searches than Datadog among cloud observability platforms worldwide. Grafana was estimated to have 335K branded searches compared to Datadog’s 254K, and held a 44.9% Share of Search versus Datadog’s 34.1%.

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