🆚 Datadog vs. Pingdom

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Datadog is twice as popular as Pingdom.
🌎 Datadog is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
🌍 Pingdom is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.

Datadog

Pingdom

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

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

Pingdom is a SaaS website uptime and performance monitoring solution that tracks the availability and user experience of websites and web applications.

It provides uptime checks from over 60 global polling locations, page speed analysis, synthetic transaction monitoring for actions such as logins or checkouts, real user monitoring that measures performance from visitors' browsers, and instant alerts via email or SMS.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

datadoghq.com #5,850

pingdom.com #88,024

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 ❌

Synthetic Monitoring$15+/month

Real User Monitoring$15+/month

EnterpriseCustom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Datadog application monitoring tool is 1.7 times more popular than Pingdom.

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, Germany, and France, while Pingdom is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Netherlands

Australia

Brazil

Indonesia

Canada

Japan

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.

🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Chile in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Denmark in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Finland 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, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Pingdom is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and Internet services sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Travel

Fashion/Beauty

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment