Is Datadog RUM or Microsoft Application Insights more popular?

Microsoft Application Insights is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,018 use Datadog RUM and 4,241 use Microsoft Application Insights.

Does Datadog RUM or Microsoft Application Insights have higher-authority sites?

Microsoft Application Insights sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Datadog RUM: 19, Microsoft Application Insights: 49).

Is Datadog RUM or Microsoft Application Insights growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Datadog RUM went from 0.39% to 0.34% of all tracked sites, while Microsoft Application Insights went from 0.55% to 0.48%. Datadog RUM is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Datadog RUM and Microsoft Application Insights?

8 websites in our catalog use both Datadog RUM and Microsoft Application Insights.

Where does this Datadog RUM vs Microsoft Application Insights data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Datadog RUM vs Microsoft Application Insights — Site Stats Database

Datadog RUM vs Microsoft Application Insights

A side-by-side comparison of two monitoring & error tracking tools, based on the 35,630 Monitoring sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Datadog RUM	Microsoft Application Insights
Websites	3,018	4,241
Market share	8.5%	12%
Share of top 10K sites	0.83%	0.68%

Share of top 100K sites	0.34%	1.3%

Rank	#5	#3

Median DR	19	49

Average DR	28	49

Median keywords	439	1,607

Median referring domains	136	886

Median domain age	9 yrs	22 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	311,319	136,602

Combined monthly traffic	939,559,687	579,329,292

nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDatadog RUM
spanishdict.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords1,056,567
Referring Domains14,119
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)106,219,521
Traffic Trend
Technology
go.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords913,868
Referring Domains604,602
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)72,794,971
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDatadog RUM
substack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords5,643,513
Referring Domains561,764
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,156,090
Traffic Trend
Technology
alltrails.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords1,038,739
Referring Domains104,963
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)35,078,872
Traffic Trend
Technology
usbank.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords385,756
Referring Domains37,150
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,567,736
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDatadog RUM
bleacherreport.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,247,726
Referring Domains132,611
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,277,274
Traffic Trend
Technology
marvel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords275,398
Referring Domains79,713
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)16,555,205
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDatadog RUM
acehardware.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords1,105,931
Referring Domains29,144
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)16,386,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
ingles.com
LanguageSpanish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords629,758
Referring Domains5,272
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,957,031
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDatadog RUM

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nytimes.com	English	94	9,214,622	1,473,314	32 yrs	256,700,108		Datadog RUM

uefa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords148,636
Referring Domains163,923
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)39,801,271
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft Application Insights
cloud.microsoft
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords155,714
Referring Domains128,832
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,365,324
Traffic Trend
Technology
crayola.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords99,252
Referring Domains36,692
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,148,329
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft Application Insights
office.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords116,220
Referring Domains911,089
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,200,894
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft Application Insights
miamiandbeaches.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords129,485
Referring Domains17,008
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,743,681
Traffic Trend
Technology
jfkairport.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords79,974
Referring Domains5,914
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,687,388
Traffic Trend
Technology
vioc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords53,631
Referring Domains2,527
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,638,869
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft Application Insights
operations.nfl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords47,124
Referring Domains10,068
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,909,230
Traffic Trend
Technology
hss.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords209,563
Referring Domains20,351
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,362,820
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft Application Insights
unitypoint.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords298,885
Referring Domains14,065
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,957,327
Traffic Trend
Technology