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Telemetry pipelines · November 2026 Edition

Grafana Loki vs New Relic

Zero of fourteen models named Grafana Loki first on the direct prompt; zero named New Relic. Grafana Loki was named by eleven of the fourteen models and New Relic by eleven and Grafana Loki carries 18 labels and New Relic 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Grafana Loki

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

New Relic

criticized challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%31%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 18; printed, not drawn.
Labels1816A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Grafana Loki reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.OpenTelemetry Collector was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. OpenTelemetry Collector vs Grafana Loki · OpenTelemetry Collector vs New Relic · Cribl Stream vs Grafana Loki

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 telemetry pipelines page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Grafana LokiFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNew Relic
Direct001 against New Relic
Paraphrase01
Comparative001 against Grafana Loki
Budget-constrained103 against New Relic
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 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.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GLM 4.7 FlashXOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Grafana, Grafana Loki, OTel Collector, Prometheus, Tempo
Muse Glimmer 30BOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Loki, Jaeger, New Relic, Prometheus, Tempo, Vector

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Cribl Stream alternatives: Bindplane, Datadog
GPT-5.4 miniOpenTelemetry Collector
Gemini 3.5 FlashCribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector, Vector alternatives: Amberflo, Census, Grafana Cloud, Hightouch, Lago, Metronome, Mixpanel, PostHog, RudderStack
Perplexity SonarOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Edge Delta
Grok 4.20OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Fluent Bit, Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline, Vector
Mistral SmallOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Vector
DeepSeek V4 FlashOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Grafana LGTM Stack
Llama 4 MaverickVector alternatives: Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector
Qwen 3.7 FlashGrafana Cloud alternatives: Datadog, Honeycomb, Lightstep, OpenTelemetry Collector
Kimi K2OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Vector
MiniMax M2.5OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, Vector
GPT-6 LunaOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Alloy, Datadog, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, RudderStack

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
Grafana Loki leads by three points.
Grafana Loki3%#5 of 15
New Relic0%#14 of 15
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana Loki2%#7 of 18
New Relic2%#8 of 18
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana Loki0%#– of 15
New Relic0%#15 of 15
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Grafana Loki

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

“Common for cost-conscious teams but lacks a unified "pipeline" layer.” Grok 4.20 · comparative prompt · soft negative

What the models said about New Relic

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

“Legacy vendor-specific agents (New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace traditional agents) | Closed data formats, proprietary APIs” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
Also compared
OpenTelemetry Collector vs Grafana LokiOpenTelemetry Collector vs New RelicCribl Stream vs Grafana LokiCribl Stream vs New RelicVector vs Grafana LokiVector vs New RelicGrafana Cloud vs Grafana LokiGrafana Cloud vs New RelicFluent Bit vs Grafana LokiFluent Bit vs New RelicGrafana vs Grafana LokiGrafana vs New RelicAll twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full telemetry pipelines standing

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.