# Datadog alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026 Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 712 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Datadog holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/datadog/alternatives ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - OpenTelemetry Collector: 92 - Grafana: 51 - Site24x7: 44 - Cribl Stream: 35 - New Relic: 27 - Zabbix: 21 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #4 of 16 at 10%). - Site24x7: first choice in 15 of those 61 - Zabbix: first choice in 8 of those 61 - Better Stack: first choice in 6 of those 61 - Grafana: first choice in 6 of those 61 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 4 of those 61 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 3 of those 61 - Netdata: first choice in 2 of those 61 - New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 61 **Mid-market**: 50 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 16 at 29%). - Zabbix: first choice in 12 of those 50 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 50 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 50 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 50 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 50 - Datadog Infrastructure Pro: first choice in 1 of those 50 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 1 of those 50 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 50 **Enterprise**: 41 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 14 at 45%). - Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 41 - Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 41 - Checkmk: first choice in 1 of those 41 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 41 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 41 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 1 of those 41 - Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 41 - Zabbix: first choice in 1 of those 41 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #4 of 13 at 11%). - Grafana: first choice in 24 of those 63 - New Relic: first choice in 15 of those 63 - SigNoz: first choice in 8 of those 63 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 63 - CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 63 - Grafana Labs: first choice in 1 of those 63 - Grafana Loki: first choice in 1 of those 63 - PostHog: first choice in 1 of those 63 **Mid-market**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #2 of 10 at 27%). - Grafana: first choice in 16 of those 53 - New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 53 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 53 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 53 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 53 - OpenTelemetry: first choice in 1 of those 53 **Enterprise**: 43 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 10 at 38%). - New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 43 - Dynatrace: first choice in 5 of those 43 - groundcover: first choice in 4 of those 43 - Chronosphere: first choice in 2 of those 43 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 43 - Last9: first choice in 1 of those 43 - OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 43 ## AIOps platforms **Small business**: 60 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #6 of 14 at 4%). - Site24x7: first choice in 17 of those 60 - Atera: first choice in 11 of those 60 - New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 9 of those 60 - Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 60 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 60 - ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: first choice in 2 of those 60 - Atera Robin: first choice in 1 of those 60 - Grafana Loki: first choice in 1 of those 60 **Mid-market**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #2 of 15 at 14%). - Site24x7: first choice in 12 of those 62 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 7 of those 62 - New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 5 of those 62 - BigPanda: first choice in 4 of those 62 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 62 - Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 62 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 62 **Enterprise**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #9 of 15 at 0%). - BigPanda: first choice in 11 of those 63 - Dynatrace: first choice in 5 of those 63 - OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 63 - New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 3 of those 63 - ServiceNow IT Operations Management: first choice in 2 of those 63 - ServiceNow ITOM: first choice in 2 of those 63 - AI Event Intelligence by LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 63 - AlertOps: first choice in 1 of those 63 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #9 of 15 at 3%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 39 of those 70 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 10 of those 70 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 5 of those 70 - Vector: first choice in 4 of those 70 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 3 of those 70 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 70 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 70 - Vector.dev: first choice in 2 of those 70 **Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #16 of 18 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 36 of those 76 - Vector: first choice in 10 of those 76 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 7 of those 76 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 76 - Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 76 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 76 - Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 76 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 76 **Enterprise**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #3 of 15 at 9%). - Cribl Stream: first choice in 23 of those 70 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 17 of those 70 - Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 70 - Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 70 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 70 - ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 70 - Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 70 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 70 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.