# Infrastructure monitoring for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "infrastructure monitoring tool" and as "server and cloud infrastructure monitoring solution", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/infrastructure-monitoring/enterprise

**Standing:** Datadog leads with 45% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Datadog](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/datadog/index.md) | 45% | 34% | 74 |
| 2 | [Dynatrace](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/dynatrace/index.md) | 25% | 22% | 65 |
| 3 | [Netdata](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/netdata/index.md) | 12% | 7% | 15 |
| 4 | [New Relic](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/new-relic/index.md) | 4% | 27% | 51 |
| 5 | [LogicMonitor](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/logicmonitor/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 24 |
| 6 | [Zabbix](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/zabbix/index.md) | 2% | 31% | 42 |
| 7 | [Grafana](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/grafana/index.md) | 2% | 21% | 24 |
| 12 | [Prometheus + Grafana](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/prometheus-grafana/index.md) | 0% | 18% | 22 |
| 13 | [Splunk](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/splunk/index.md) | 0% | 22% | 23 |
| 14 | [Motadata ObserveOps](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/motadata-observeops/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 10 |
| 20 | [Splunk Observability Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/splunk-observability-cloud/index.md) | 0% | 27% | 11 |
| 83 | [SolarWinds Observability](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/solarwinds-observability/index.md) | 0% | 62% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 85 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: Datadog, New Relic; alternatives Splunk
- GPT-5.4 mini: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, Grafana, New Relic
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, Grafana, LogicMonitor, New Relic
- Perplexity Sonar: Datadog; alternatives Checkmk, Dynatrace, Prometheus + Grafana
- Grok 4.20: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Zabbix
- Mistral Small: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, Motadata ObserveOps, NinjaOne
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Dynatrace; alternatives Datadog, Grafana Labs, Splunk, Zabbix
- Llama 4 Maverick: Datadog; alternatives ManageEngine OpManager, Paessler PRTG, Xitoring, Zabbix
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus + Grafana
- Kimi K2: Datadog, Dynatrace; alternatives Splunk, Zabbix
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, New Relic
- MiniMax M2.5: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, IBM Instana, SolarWinds Observability, Zabbix
- GPT-6 Luna: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, Grafana
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Datadog; alternatives Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Motadata ObserveOps, SolarWinds Orion Platform

## Sources the answers cite

70 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 13 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- motadata.com: 33 answers, 38 citations
- netdata.cloud: 29 answers, 60 citations
- middleware.io: 22 answers, 22 citations
- newrelic.com: 20 answers, 36 citations
- hackmd.io: 19 answers, 22 citations
- cubeapm.com: 17 answers, 24 citations
- g2.com: 17 answers, 24 citations
- dynatrace.com: 15 answers, 22 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools (32 answers)
- https://middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (20 answers)
- https://netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools (18 answers)
- https://coralogix.com/guides/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (13 answers)
- https://hackmd.io/@davidwenham/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (11 answers)
- https://hackmd.io/community/@davidwenham/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (11 answers)
- https://kloudfuse.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (10 answers)
- https://signoz.io/comparisons/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (10 answers)
- https://logicmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/10018_G2_Cloud_Infrastructure_Summer_2024_update_v5.pdf (9 answers)
- https://sematext.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools (9 answers)

## Warned against

- Datadog: 25 of 74 labels negative. "Avoid consumption-based models at scale: Per-host SaaS with metered add-ons (Datadog, Dynatrace) tends to compound at scale" (Claude Haiku 4.5, budget prompt)
- Nagios: 12 of 17 labels negative. "Enterprises should avoid or be cautious about Datadog due to cost unpredictability, Nagios due to scalability and maintenance issues" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Dynatrace: 14 of 65 labels negative. "Avoid consumption-based models at scale: Per-host SaaS with metered add-ons (Datadog, Dynatrace) tends to compound at scale" (Claude Haiku 4.5, budget prompt)
- Zabbix: 13 of 42 labels negative. "avoid starting with open-source solutions (like Zabbix or Prometheus)" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, paraphrase prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Datadog at 45%.

- Datadog: 41% to 45%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 of 85, unchanged.
- Splunk Observability Cloud: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 5 → 20 of 85.
- Netdata: 14% to 12%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 of 85, unchanged.
- New Relic: 6% to 4%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 of 85, unchanged.
- LogicMonitor: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 13 → 5 of 85.
- Zabbix: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 of 85, unchanged.
- Grafana: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 11 → 7 of 85.
- Dynatrace: 24% to 25%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 85, unchanged.
- ManageEngine OpManager: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 8 of 85.
- Prometheus + Grafana: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 12 of 85, unchanged.
- Splunk: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 14 → 13 of 85.
- Motadata ObserveOps: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 26 → 14 of 85.

## Record

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