Four of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named SigNoz. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and SigNoz by thirteen and New Relic carries 69 labels and SigNoz 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine categories this edition.
Named in eight categories this edition.
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 observability platforms page.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, New Relic and SigNoz were named in the same answer 158 times, of the 709 answers naming New Relic and the 211 naming SigNoz. In those answers SigNoz took the first choice sixteen times and New Relic forty-one.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| 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 |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“New Relic (November 2023): Security breach involving unauthorized access to staging environment, credential theft, and social engineering.” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid platforms like Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace initially” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · hard negative
“New Relic/Datadog - Avoid for tight budgets” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“For most mid-market B2B companies, New Relic often provides the best balance of features, pricing predictability, and ease of use” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“Signoz | Lacking documentation, inadequate customer support” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“Move to SigNoz Cloud when you need more capacity—it offers the best balance of simplicity, features, and predictable pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“SigNoz (Best All-Around Value & Simplicity) ... widely considered the best open-source alternative to Datadog” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“The best observability platform for a company with a limited budget is SigNoz” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
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.