🆚 Akamai mPulse vs. Datadog

📈 Akamai mPulse is four times more popular than Datadog.
🌎 Akamai mPulse is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Datadog is more popular in Estonia, Croatia, and Uruguay.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Akamai mPulse

Datadog

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that collects performance and user experience data directly from visitors' browsers to measure how websites and applications behave in real conditions.

It captures over 200 performance and business metrics per session, correlates them with outcomes such as conversions and revenue, provides real-time dashboards and anomaly alerts, and includes features such as Core Web Vitals tracking, third-party resource monitoring, and bot detection.

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and security platform for infrastructure and applications that collects and correlates metrics, logs, and traces across cloud and on-premises systems.

It provides application performance monitoring with distributed tracing, real user and synthetic monitoring, log management, and cloud security features such as posture management and threat detection, and offers more than 1,000 built-in integrations with services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

New York, United States

Website

akamai.com #18,159

datadoghq.com #5,850

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

On request

Free version ✔️1-day metric retention, up to 5 hosts

Pro$18+/host/month

Enterprise$27+/host/month

APM$36+/host/month

APM Pro$42+/host/month

APM Enterprise$48+/host/month

Log ingest$0.10+/GB

RUM$1.50+/1K sessions/month

Synthetic Browser Testing$12+/1K runs/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Akamai mPulse application monitoring tool is 4 times more popular than Datadog.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Akamai mPulse is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Datadog is more popular in Estonia, Croatia, and Uruguay.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Indonesia

India

Canada

Germany

Japan

France

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in India in the Application Monitoring category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Application Monitoring category.
🥇 Most popular in Egypt in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in China in the Application Monitoring category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Akamai mPulse is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Datadog is more commonly used on education and reference sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Motor Vehicles

Finance/Banking

Travel

Education/Reference

Entertainment

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#50

#73

#89

#125

#151

Name

Rank

#23

#45

#50

#163

#170