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Infrastructure monitoring · November 2026 Edition

New Relic vs Prometheus

One of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named Prometheus. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Prometheus by thirteen and New Relic carries 49 labels and Prometheus 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.

New Relic

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Prometheus

criticized challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share6%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate12%26%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels4931A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, New Relic 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 New Relic · Datadog vs Prometheus · Zabbix vs New Relic

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.
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPrometheus
Direct101 against New Relic · 1 against Prometheus
Paraphrase101 against Prometheus
Comparative12
Budget-constrained02
Scale-constrained103 against Prometheus
Negative005 against New Relic · 3 against Prometheus
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, New Relic and Prometheus were named in the same answer 123 times, of the 709 answers naming New Relic and the 351 naming Prometheus. In those answers Prometheus took the first choice eight times and New Relic seventeen.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

New Relic first, Prometheus not the choice

1 of 14 modelsPrometheus 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

6 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
Gemini 3.5 FlashGrafana alternatives: Better Stack, LogicMonitor, 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 twelve points.
New Relic12%#3 of 16
Prometheus0%#13 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
New Relic leads by two points.
New Relic6%#6 of 16
Prometheus4%#8 of 16
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
New Relic leads by four points.
New Relic4%#4 of 14
Prometheus0%#13 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about New Relic

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Prometheus

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
“Don't expose Prometheus, Alertmanager, exporters, or their metrics and debugging endpoints directly to the public internet.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“Kubernetes & Cloud-Native (Budget Aware) | Prometheus + Grafana | Industry standard, native Kubernetes support, highly customizable.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
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.