How many companies use Datadog?
As of October 2026, 10,657 companies show public evidence of using Datadog across the 1,789,094 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes Datadog the fourth most used of the 39 Monitoring tools with confirmed customers, behind New Relic (15,416). The number is a lower bound: a company counts only when a public record, such as a DNS entry or Datadog's code on its website, shows the tool in use.
Which companies use Datadog?
Companies that use Datadog include LaunchDarkly, Sendbird, Expo, U.S. Bancorp and LegalMatch, according to runsonwhat's public-record scans (October 2026). The biggest industries among Datadog customers are restaurants (15%) and automotive (15%). The full list of 10,657 companies can be filtered by industry, company size and country on runsonwhat's Datadog page.
What industries use Datadog the most?
The industries with the most Datadog customers are restaurants (15%), automotive (15%) and retail (15%), based on the 6,056 companies with a known industry. Relative to all companies runsonwhat tracks, Datadog stands out most in restaurants (12× the average rate) and automotive (7.8× the average rate).
Is Datadog more popular with startups or large companies?
Datadog is used mostly by small companies: of the 7,977 companies with a known size, 51% have up to 50 employees, 41% have 51 to 1,000 and 8.1% have more than 1,000.
Which countries use Datadog the most?
Most Datadog customers runsonwhat has found are based in the United States (73%), the United Kingdom (4.2%) and Australia (3.1%), out of 8,008 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are the United Kingdom and Australia.
Is Datadog gaining or losing customers?
In the 90 days to October 2026, 3 companies started using Datadog and 0 companies stopped, a net gain of 3. runsonwhat counts a start or a stop only between two checks of the same company done the same way, so a change in how a site is scanned never shows up as churn.
Datadog vs Sentry: which is more widely used?
Sentry is more widely used: 68,794 companies show public evidence of Sentry, against 10,657 for Datadog (6.5× as many), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). 2,389 companies run both, which is 22% of Datadog's customers.
What are the most popular alternatives to Datadog?
By the number of companies using them, the most used Monitoring tools other than Datadog are Sentry (68,794), web-vitals (22,763), New Relic (15,416) and Atlassian Statuspage (6,446), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Not every tool in a category does the same job, so check each one's page; runsonwhat ranks all Monitoring tools at https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/monitoring.
What other tools do Datadog customers use?
Datadog customers use Attentive, Gorgias Convert and Gorgias far more often than the average company. For example, 11% of Datadog customers also run Attentive, 37× the rate among all companies runsonwhat tracks, and 7.6% run Gorgias Convert.
How does runsonwhat know a company uses Datadog?
runsonwhat reads public records only. For Datadog, that means a domain-verification record for Datadog in the company's DNS, Datadog's code on the company's website or in its tag manager or Datadog on the company's own subprocessor list. A company is listed only when one of these direct records is present, and each match keeps the record it came from. DNS is rechecked weekly and websites about monthly.
AttentiveMarketing37×more likely
Gorgias ConvertMarketing25×more likely
RudderStackAnalytics23×more likely
AlgoliaSearch15×more likely
AudioEyeSecurity & Compliance13×more likely
Triple WhaleAnalytics12×more likely
YotpoMarketing11×more likely
AmplitudeAnalytics11×more likely
Adobe Experience PlatformAnalytics10×more likely
MapboxMedia & UI10×more likely
