# Elastic APM alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 226 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Elastic APM 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/elastic-apm/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- New Relic: 64
- Dynatrace: 43
- Datadog APM: 26
- Sentry: 13
- Scout APM: 9
- CubeAPM: 6

## Application performance monitoring

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Elastic APM (Elastic APM is #11 of 14 at 0%).

- New Relic: first choice in 34 of those 79
- Sentry: first choice in 13 of those 79
- Scout APM: first choice in 9 of those 79
- AppSignal: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Atatus: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Datadog APM: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Honeybadger: first choice in 2 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Elastic APM (Elastic APM is #8 of 14 at 0%).

- New Relic: first choice in 25 of those 70
- Datadog APM: first choice in 13 of those 70
- Dynatrace: first choice in 3 of those 70
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 70
- Microsoft Application Insights: first choice in 1 of those 70
- SigNoz: first choice in 1 of those 70
- Site24x7: first choice in 1 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Elastic APM (Elastic APM is #6 of 10 at 2%).

- Dynatrace: first choice in 40 of those 77
- Datadog APM: first choice in 10 of those 77
- CubeAPM: first choice in 6 of those 77
- New Relic: first choice in 5 of those 77
- AppDynamics: first choice in 2 of those 77
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 1 of those 77
- OpManager Nexus: first choice in 1 of those 77
- Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 77

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