# Fluentd alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 246 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Fluentd 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/fluentd/alternatives

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

- OpenTelemetry Collector: 98
- Cribl Stream: 45
- Grafana Cloud: 19
- Vector: 14
- Datadog: 7
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: 3

## Telemetry pipelines

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Fluentd.

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 45 of those 84
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 14 of those 84
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Vector: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Grafana Alloy: first choice in 3 of those 84
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 2 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Fluentd (Fluentd is #15 of 18 at 0%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 35 of those 81
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 81
- Vector: first choice in 8 of those 81
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Fluentd (Fluentd is #14 of 15 at 0%).

- Cribl Stream: first choice in 29 of those 81
- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 18 of those 81
- Datadog: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 81
- groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 81
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 81

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