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Four categories · what the models named instead

Alternatives to Datadog, as AI models named them

In the November 2026 Edition, 712 of the 1,008 answers collected in the four categories where Datadog holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
OpenTelemetry Collector92
Grafana51
Site24x744
Cribl Stream35
New Relic27
Zabbix21
First choices in the 712 answers that did not name Datadog, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Infrastructure monitoring

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Datadog is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessDatadog is #4 of 16 here at 10% of first choices, 64 labels.

Sixty-one of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in eleven. The first choices in those sixty-one answers, sixteen products in all, the eight most named:

Site24x715 of 61Head to head →
Zabbix8 of 61Head to head →
Better Stack6 of 61
Grafana6 of 61Head to head →
Paessler PRTG4 of 61
Prometheus + Grafana3 of 61Head to head →
Netdata2 of 61
New Relic2 of 61Head to head →
8 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketDatadog is #1 of 16 here at 29% of first choices, 62 labels.

Fifty of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in twenty-two. The first choices in those fifty answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

Zabbix12 of 50Head to head →
Grafana2 of 50Head to head →
Prometheus2 of 50Head to head →
Prometheus + Grafana2 of 50Head to head →
Checkmk Community1 of 50
Datadog Infrastructure Pro1 of 50
Grafana Stack1 of 50
LogicMonitor1 of 50Head to head →
4 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseDatadog is #1 of 14 here at 45% of first choices, 74 labels.

Forty-one of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in thirty-five. The first choices in those forty-one answers, nine products in all, the eight most named:

Netdata6 of 41
Dynatrace2 of 41
Checkmk1 of 41
Grafana1 of 41Head to head →
LogicMonitor1 of 41Head to head →
ManageEngine OpManager1 of 41
Middleware.io1 of 41
Zabbix1 of 41Head to head →
1 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

Observability platforms

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Datadog is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessDatadog is #4 of 13 here at 11% of first choices, 73 labels.

Sixty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in ten. The first choices in those sixty-three answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

Grafana24 of 63Head to head →
New Relic15 of 63Head to head →
SigNoz8 of 63Head to head →
Better Stack5 of 63
CloudWatch1 of 63
Grafana Labs1 of 63
Grafana Loki1 of 63
PostHog1 of 63
4 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketDatadog is #2 of 10 here at 27% of first choices, 76 labels.

Fifty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in twenty-one. The first choices in those fifty-three answers, six products in all:

Grafana16 of 53Head to head →
New Relic4 of 53Head to head →
SigNoz3 of 53Head to head →
Prometheus2 of 53Head to head →
Honeycomb1 of 53Head to head →
OpenTelemetry1 of 53
The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseDatadog is #1 of 10 here at 38% of first choices, 74 labels.

Forty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in thirty-one. The first choices in those forty-three answers, eight products in all:

New Relic6 of 43Head to head →
Dynatrace5 of 43
groundcover4 of 43
Chronosphere2 of 43
Elastic Observability1 of 43
Grafana1 of 43Head to head →
Last91 of 43
OpenObserve1 of 43
The full enterprise standing →

AIOps platforms

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Datadog is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessDatadog is #6 of 14 here at 4% of first choices, 46 labels.

Sixty of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in six. The first choices in those sixty answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

Site24x717 of 60Head to head →
Atera11 of 60
New Relic Applied Intelligence9 of 60Head to head →
Better Stack3 of 60
Grafana Cloud3 of 60Head to head →
ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer2 of 60
Atera Robin1 of 60
Grafana Loki1 of 60
7 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketDatadog is #2 of 15 here at 14% of first choices, 43 labels.

Sixty-two of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in eleven. The first choices in those sixty-two answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

Site24x712 of 62Head to head →
PagerDuty AIOps7 of 62Head to head →
New Relic Applied Intelligence5 of 62Head to head →
BigPanda4 of 62Head to head →
Grafana Cloud3 of 62Head to head →
Better Stack2 of 62
ManageEngine OpManager2 of 62Head to head →
Dynatrace1 of 62
4 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseDatadog is #9 of 15 here at 0% of first choices, 41 labels.

Sixty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in two. The first choices in those sixty-three answers, seventeen products in all, the eight most named:

BigPanda11 of 63Head to head →
Dynatrace5 of 63
OpenObserve4 of 63
New Relic Applied Intelligence3 of 63Head to head →
ServiceNow IT Operations Management2 of 63
ServiceNow ITOM2 of 63
AI Event Intelligence by LogicMonitor1 of 63
AlertOps1 of 63
9 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

Telemetry pipelines

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Datadog is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessDatadog is #9 of 15 here at 3% of first choices, 47 labels.

Seventy of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in three. The first choices in those seventy answers, sixteen products in all, the eight most named:

OpenTelemetry Collector39 of 70
Grafana Cloud10 of 70
Cribl Stream5 of 70
Vector4 of 70
Grafana Alloy3 of 70
SigNoz3 of 70
Honeycomb2 of 70
Vector.dev2 of 70
8 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketDatadog is #16 of 18 here at 0% of first choices, 37 labels.

Seventy-six of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-six answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

OpenTelemetry Collector36 of 76
Vector10 of 76
Cribl Stream7 of 76
Grafana Cloud3 of 76
Bindplane2 of 76
Fluent Bit2 of 76
Edge Delta1 of 76
Grafana1 of 76
4 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseDatadog is #3 of 15 here at 9% of first choices, 27 labels.

Seventy of the eighty-four answers did not name Datadog; it was the first choice in four. The first choices in those seventy answers, ten products in all, the eight most named:

Cribl Stream23 of 70
OpenTelemetry Collector17 of 70
Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline3 of 70
Coralogix2 of 70
groundcover2 of 70
ClickHouse Cloud1 of 70
Datadog Observability Pipelines1 of 70
Grafana Cloud1 of 70
2 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Datadog neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Datadog only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Datadog's side.

The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Datadog was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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