🆚 Datadog vs. Instana

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Datadog is much more popular than Instana.
🌎 Datadog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Instana is more popular in Guatemala.

Datadog

Instana

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and security platform for infrastructure and applications.

Instana is a fully automated application performance management solution currently owned by IBM.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Armonk, New York, United States

Website

datadoghq.com #5,850

instana.com

Pricing

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

Free version ❌

Observability Essentials (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts)$240+/host/year

Observability Standard (minimum order quantity: 10 hosts)$900+/host/year

Synthetic Browser Test$12/1K executions/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Datadog application monitoring tool is 14 times more popular than Instana.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Datadog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Instana is more popular in Guatemala.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Indonesia

Brazil

Japan

Netherlands

Canada

Australia

Awards

⭐ 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.

⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Application Monitoring category.
🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Datadog is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Instana is more commonly used on dating and personals sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Travel

Entertainment

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki