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Infrastructure monitoring · November 2026 Edition

Grafana vs New Relic

One of fourteen models named Grafana first on the direct prompt; one named New Relic. Grafana was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and New Relic by fourteen and Grafana carries 33 labels and New Relic 49, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Grafana

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

New Relic

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share8%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate15%12%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels3349A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Grafana reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Datadog was named alongside these two in nine of the fourteen direct answers. Datadog vs Grafana · Datadog vs New Relic · Zabbix vs Grafana

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 infrastructure 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.
GrafanaFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNew Relic
Direct111 against New Relic
Paraphrase111 against Grafana
Comparative01
Budget-constrained10
Scale-constrained112 against Grafana
Negative002 against Grafana · 5 against New Relic
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 and New Relic were named in the same answer 252 times, of the 332 answers naming Grafana and the 709 naming New Relic. In those answers New Relic took the first choice thirty-eight times and Grafana fifty.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Grafana first, New Relic an alternative

1 of 14 modelsNew Relic was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashGrafana alternatives: Better Stack, LogicMonitor, New Relic

New Relic first, Grafana not the choice

1 of 14 modelsGrafana was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Muse Glimmer 30BDatadog, New Relic alternatives: LogicMonitor, ManageEngine OpManager, Prometheus + Grafana, Site24x7, Zabbix

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniDatadog alternatives: Grafana, New Relic
Grok 4.20Datadog alternatives: Motadata ObserveOps, New Relic, NinjaOne, Prometheus + Grafana, Site24x7, Zabbix
DeepSeek V4 FlashLogicMonitor alternatives: New Relic, Paessler PRTG, Site24x7
GLM 4.7 FlashXLogicMonitor alternatives: Datadog, New Relic
GPT-6 LunaDatadog alternatives: Dynatrace, Grafana, New Relic

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Perplexity SonarLogicMonitor alternatives: Better Stack, Datadog, Netdata, Zabbix
Mistral SmallDatadog alternatives: Middleware.io, NinjaOne, Zabbix
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashDatadog alternatives: Checkmk, LogicMonitor, Site24x7, Zabbix
Kimi K2Site24x7 alternatives: Coralogix, Motadata ObserveOps, Paessler PRTG, Zabbix
MiniMax M2.5Site24x7 alternatives: Datadog, LogicMonitor, NinjaOne

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
New Relic leads by three points.
New Relic12%#3 of 16
Grafana8%#5 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Grafana leads at mid-market.
Grafana8%#5 of 16
New Relic6%#6 of 16
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: New Relic leads at enterprise.
New Relic4%#4 of 14
Grafana2%#7 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Grafana

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

“Open-source like Zabbix/Prometheus + Grafana work if you have in-house talent for maintenance, but they add operational burden.” Grok 4.20 · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious if it's internet-facing without properly configured authentication, permissions, and network restrictions.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“High learning curve; limited GUI configuration options; requires significant manual config file editing” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · soft negative

What the models said about New Relic

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.