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Application performance monitoring · November 2026 Edition

Grafana Cloud vs SigNoz

Zero of fourteen models named Grafana Cloud first on the direct prompt; zero named SigNoz. Grafana Cloud was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and SigNoz by eleven and Grafana Cloud carries 36 labels and SigNoz 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Grafana Cloud

accepted challenger

Named in five 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 rate8%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels3623A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Grafana Cloud 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 Grafana Cloud · New Relic vs SigNoz · Datadog APM vs Grafana Cloud

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.
Grafana CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSigNoz
Direct00
Paraphrase001 against Grafana Cloud
Comparative00
Budget-constrained21
Scale-constrained00
Negative012 against Grafana Cloud
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.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Grafana Cloud and SigNoz were named in the same answer sixty-eight times, of the 216 answers naming Grafana Cloud and the 211 naming SigNoz. In those answers SigNoz took the first choice seven times and Grafana Cloud thirteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Grafana Cloud 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
Grafana Cloud SigNoz first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Grafana Cloud on the left and SigNoz on the right.

The direct prompt

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

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.
Gemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Sentry, SigNoz
Mistral SmallNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, SigNoz
Qwen 3.7 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud
GPT-6 LunaNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud

Neither was named

10 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
GPT-5.4 miniNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Dynatrace
Perplexity SonarDatadog APM alternatives: ManageEngine Applications Manager, New Relic, Sentry
Grok 4.20Datadog APM alternatives: New Relic
DeepSeek V4 FlashNew Relic alternatives: AppSignal, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager
Llama 4 MaverickDatadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic
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
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 two points.
SigNoz4%#6 of 14
Grafana Cloud2%#7 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Grafana Cloud leads at mid-market.
Grafana Cloud4%#3 of 14
SigNoz2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana Cloud0%#9 of 10
SigNoz0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Grafana Cloud

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

“self-hosted solutions like Grafana (requiring significant maintenance effort)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Start with Grafana Cloud's free tier or New Relic's free tier to get started at $0 cost.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

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.