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title: "Datadog vs Pingdom: Which is more popular by branded search?"
description: "Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Pingdom? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Remote monitoring software 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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publisher: "Brandwave"
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# Datadog vs Pingdom: Which is more popular by branded search?

Which is more popular in search, Datadog or Pingdom? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Remote monitoring software 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 Pingdom
- **Competitive set**: Remote monitoring software
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Aug 2026
- **Datadog Share of Search**: 58.1%
- **Pingdom Share of Search**: 4.2%

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

- In August 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Pingdom among remote monitoring software worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 254K branded searches compared to Pingdom’s 18.2K, and held a 58.1% Share of Search versus Pingdom’s 4.2%.
- Datadog was ahead of Pingdom 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 remote monitoring software worldwide moved from 55.1% to 58.1%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 257K to 254K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Pingdom’s estimated Share of Search among remote monitoring software worldwide moved from 7.2% to 4.2%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 33.4K to 18.2K.

## How did search popularity change for remote monitoring software worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Datadog lost estimated Share of Search among remote monitoring software worldwide, from 60.1% to 58.1%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Pingdom worldwide fell 45.4% over 11 measured months, from 33.4K to 18.2K in August 2026.

## Month by month

| Month | Datadog estimated searches | Datadog Share of Search | Datadog rank | Pingdom estimated searches | Pingdom Share of Search | Pingdom rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 257K | 55.1% | 1 | 33.4K | 7.2% | 4 |
| Nov 2025 | 255K | 54.4% | 1 | 27.4K | 5.8% | 4 |
| Dec 2025 | 210K | 53.7% | 1 | 27.3K | 7% | 4 |
| Jan 2026 | 255K | 56.6% | 1 | 27.3K | 6.1% | 4 |
| Feb 2026 | 256K | 59.1% | 1 | 22.4K | 5.2% | 4 |
| Mar 2026 | 258K | 56.1% | 1 | 27.4K | 6% | 4 |
| Apr 2026 | 257K | 56.9% | 1 | 22.4K | 5% | 4 |
| May 2026 | 256K | 56.9% | 1 | 22.4K | 5% | 4 |
| Jun 2026 | 260K | 58.6% | 1 | 18.3K | 4.1% | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | 257K | 60.1% | 1 | 18.3K | 4.3% | 4 |
| Aug 2026 | 254K | 58.1% | 1 | 18.2K | 4.2% | 4 |
| Sep 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Datadog’s and Pingdom’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.
- **Pingdom**: Measured on the search terms “pingdom”, “pingdom app”, “pingdom com”, “pingdom monitoring”, “pingdom software”, “pingdom uptime” and “pingdom uptime monitoring”, summed into one figure.

- [Datadog profile](/demand/global-en/brands/datadog)
- [Pingdom profile](/demand/global-en/brands/pingdom)
- [All remote monitoring software worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/remote-monitoring-software): 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 Pingdom?

In August 2026, Datadog had more branded searches than Pingdom among remote monitoring software worldwide. Datadog was estimated to have 254K branded searches compared to Pingdom’s 18.2K, and held a 58.1% Share of Search versus Pingdom’s 4.2%.

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