Telemetry pipelines · RankedGrafana Alloy
Grafana Alloy is a telemetry collection agent that handles Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry data and profiles in one agent · grafana.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 40%.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 45%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cribl Stream is first at 40%.
Why models recommend it
“Grafana Alloy is ideal if you're already invested in the Grafana ecosystem”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Grafana Alloy if: Your infrastructure heavily uses the Grafana stack”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“favor Alloy when Grafana/Prometheus integration is central”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
“Alloy is an OTel-compatible collector that's easy to self-host”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grafana Alloy, over the 31 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 22 | View → | |
| 23 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 4 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grafana Alloy →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grafana Alloy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan; Get started free; Jump right in, no registration required.
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Customers named
- BlackRock, Pegasystems, Lovable, LATAM Airlines, Delivery Hero, ASOS, Sailpoint, Mux
- Also from Grafana Cloud
- Grafana Cloud / LGTM, Grafana Cloud / LGTM Stack, Grafana Cloud Logs, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Synthetic Monitoring
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 29 of the 31 answers that named Grafana Alloy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-six of the 113 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Alloy 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |