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Application performance monitoring · November 2026 Edition

Dynatrace vs SigNoz

One of fourteen models named Dynatrace first on the direct prompt; zero named SigNoz. Dynatrace was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and SigNoz by eleven and Dynatrace carries 52 labels and SigNoz 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Dynatrace

criticized challenger

Named in fifteen categories this edition.

SigNoz

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share4%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate38%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels5223A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Dynatrace reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.New Relic was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. New Relic vs Dynatrace · New Relic vs SigNoz · Datadog APM vs Dynatrace

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the application performance monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
DynatraceFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSigNoz
Direct105 against Dynatrace
Paraphrase006 against Dynatrace
Comparative40
Budget-constrained012 against Dynatrace
Scale-constrained10
Negative017 against Dynatrace
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Dynatrace and SigNoz stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Dynatrace SigNoz first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Dynatrace on the left and SigNoz on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Dynatrace and SigNoz stood in it.

Dynatrace first, SigNoz not the choice

1 of 14 modelsSigNoz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Llama 4 MaverickDatadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Dynatrace
Gemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Sentry, SigNoz
Mistral SmallNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, SigNoz
DeepSeek V4 FlashNew Relic alternatives: AppSignal, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager

Neither was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Perplexity SonarDatadog APM alternatives: ManageEngine Applications Manager, New Relic, Sentry
Grok 4.20Datadog APM alternatives: New Relic
Qwen 3.7 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud
Kimi K2New Relic alternatives: Atatus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, Site24x7
GLM 4.7 FlashXManageEngine Applications Manager alternatives: AppSignal, Datadog APM, New Relic, SolarWinds Observability
MiniMax M2.5Datadog APM alternatives: AppDynamics, AppSignal
GPT-6 LunaNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud
Muse Glimmer 30BDatadog APM, New Relic alternatives: IBM Instana, OpManager Nexus

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
SigNoz leads by four points.
SigNoz4%#6 of 14
Dynatrace0%#14 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Dynatrace leads at mid-market.
Dynatrace4%#5 of 14
SigNoz2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Dynatrace leads by fifty-five points.
Dynatrace55%#1 of 10
SigNoz0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Dynatrace

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Often recommended to be avoided unless you are a large enterprise with a dedicated SRE team.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative

What the models said about SigNoz

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.