9 categories · RankedGrafana
Grafana is a full-stack observability platform from Grafana Cloud for dashboards, data visualization, infrastructure monitoring and log management · grafana.com ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with New Relic. Ranked 5 of 78 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: New Relic has 27%.
Ranked first, contested: Datadog has 27%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Datadog is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“The Grafana Stack—Grafana for visualization, Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces—is a fully open-source, modular observability solution with maximum control and minimal licensing cost”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Grafana OSS (with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) or New Relic's free tier are typically the strongest options for a company with a limited budget.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“1. Open-Source Stack (Most Economical) Prometheus + Grafana + OpenTelemetry - Cost: Completely free (open source)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Safer Alternatives to Consider | Grafana Cloud | Open source foundation, transparent pricing, strong OpenTelemetry”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Open-source like Zabbix/Prometheus + Grafana work if you have in-house talent for maintenance, but they add operational burden.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Be cautious if it's internet-facing without properly configured authentication, permissions, and network restrictions.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“assess lock-in, incremental pricing, and whether their incident features meet your operational requirements”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“High learning curve; limited GUI configuration options; requires significant manual config file editing”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grafana, over the 332 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 280 | 71 | Compare → | |
| 252 | 38 | Compare → | |
| 158 | 25 | View → | |
| 110 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 91 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 86 | 1 | View → | |
| 72 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 55 | 1 | View → | |
| 54 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 7 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grafana →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grafana's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- individual teams or across an organization
- Price stated
- The Free Forever plan; Plans to suit every scale
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan; Jump right in, no registration required.
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Hosting
- Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud
- Customers named
- BlackRock, Pegasystems, Lovable, LATAM Airlines, Delivery Hero, ASOS, Sailpoint, Mux
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 277 of the 332 answers that named Grafana and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
526 of the 629 domain citations in answers naming Grafana came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,964 | 13 | 2026-09-14 | Observability, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 537 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 175 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 140 | undated | |||
| News or press | 79 | 5 | 2026-08-01 | Observability | |
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 1 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2021-04-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations blog
- 2026-09-10Synthetic monitoring labels update blog
- 2026-09-09How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud blog
- 2026-08-27Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier blog
- 2026-08-27How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability blog
- 2026-08-25The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications blog
Events in person
- March 5, 2026ObservabilityCON on the Road: TorontoDelta Hotels Toronto, Toronto, Canada · hosted
As the event pages on grafana.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grafana.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.