# Infrastructure monitoring: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "infrastructure monitoring tool" and as "server and cloud infrastructure monitoring solution", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/infrastructure-monitoring/2026-09

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/infrastructure-monitoring/index.md

**Standing:** Site24x7 leads with 24% of first choices; verdict contested. 45 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Site24x7](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/site24x7/index.md) | 24% | 4% | 25 |
| 2 | [New Relic](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/new-relic/index.md) | 22% | 15% | 48 |
| 3 | [Zabbix](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/zabbix/index.md) | 18% | 25% | 44 |
| 4 | [Datadog](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/datadog/index.md) | 13% | 43% | 54 |
| 5 | [Netdata](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/netdata/index.md) | 7% | 0% | 20 |
| 6 | [Grafana](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/grafana/index.md) | 4% | 9% | 33 |
| 7 | [Prometheus](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/prometheus/index.md) | 4% | 25% | 28 |
| 8 | [LogicMonitor](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/logicmonitor/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 15 |
| 9 | [Dynatrace](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dynatrace/index.md) | 2% | 30% | 37 |
| 11 | [Prometheus + Grafana](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/prometheus-grafana/index.md) | 0% | 10% | 21 |
| 13 | [Paessler PRTG](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/paessler-prtg/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 16 |
| 62 | [Nagios](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/nagios/index.md) | 0% | 55% | 22 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 62 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Sematext; alternatives LogicMonitor, Site24x7
- GPT-5.4 mini: New Relic; alternatives Dynatrace, Grafana
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: New Relic; alternatives Better Stack, LogicMonitor, Netdata
- Perplexity Sonar: LogicMonitor; alternatives ManageEngine OpManager, Progress WhatsUp Gold, Site24x7
- Grok 4.20: Site24x7; alternatives Datadog, LogicMonitor
- Mistral Small: Netdata, Site24x7; alternatives LogicMonitor
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: New Relic; alternatives Grafana, ManageEngine OpManager, Site24x7
- Llama 4 Maverick: Netdata, Site24x7
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Datadog; alternatives Grafana, New Relic
- Kimi K2: Site24x7; alternatives ManageEngine OpManager, New Relic
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Site24x7; alternatives LogicMonitor, New Relic, Prometheus + Grafana
- MiniMax M2.5: Site24x7; alternatives Netdata, New Relic

## Sources the answers cite

58 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- netdata.cloud: 44 answers, 44 citations
- gartner.com: 40 answers, 47 citations
- middleware.io: 37 answers, 39 citations
- newrelic.com: 27 answers, 35 citations
- motadata.com: 23 answers, 29 citations
- learn.g2.com: 19 answers, 19 citations
- instatus.com: 16 answers, 16 citations
- signoz.io: 16 answers, 16 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools (44 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (40 answers)
- https://middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (36 answers)
- https://motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools (22 answers)
- https://newrelic.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring/how-to-choose-the-best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools-2026-guide (21 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/cloud-monitoring-tools (19 answers)
- https://instatus.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (15 answers)
- https://signoz.io/comparisons/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (15 answers)
- https://sematext.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (14 answers)
- https://dash0.com/comparisons/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Zabbix: 11 of 44 labels negative. "Who to avoid: Older, static monitoring platforms (like early versions of Nagios or basic configurations of Zabbix)" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- Datadog: 23 of 54 labels negative. "Avoid Datadog for mid-market unless you have a specific need" (Kimi K2, direct prompt)
- Nagios: 12 of 22 labels negative. "Who to avoid: Older, static monitoring platforms (like early versions of Nagios or basic configurations of Zabbix) when running at scale on Kubernetes." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- Dynatrace: 11 of 37 labels negative. "great for large, complex environments and heavier automation, but often more expensive and enterprise-oriented" (GPT-5.4 mini, paraphrase prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.