# Grafana Cloud alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 619 of the 756 answers in the 3 categories where Grafana Cloud 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/grafana-cloud/alternatives

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

- Dynatrace: 72
- OpenTelemetry Collector: 65
- New Relic: 51
- Cribl Stream: 37
- Site24x7: 29
- Datadog APM: 28

## Telemetry pipelines

**Small business**: 42 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #2 of 15 at 17%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 19 of those 42
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 4 of those 42
- Vector: first choice in 4 of those 42
- Datadog: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Grafana Alloy: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Metaplane: first choice in 1 of those 42
- New Relic: first choice in 1 of those 42

**Mid-market**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #4 of 18 at 9%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 29 of those 68
- Vector: first choice in 9 of those 68
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 68
- Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 68
- Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 68
- Grafana LGTM: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Enterprise**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #5 of 15 at 2%).

- Cribl Stream: first choice in 27 of those 76
- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 17 of those 76
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 76
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 76
- Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 76
- OpenTelemetry (OTel) collectors: first choice in 1 of those 76

## AIOps platforms

**Small business**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #4 of 14 at 6%).

- Site24x7: first choice in 19 of those 68
- Atera: first choice in 12 of those 68
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 11 of those 68
- Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 68
- Better Stack: first choice in 4 of those 68
- ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Atera Robin: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Mid-market**: 74 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #6 of 15 at 5%).

- Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 74
- Site24x7: first choice in 9 of those 74
- Dynatrace: first choice in 7 of those 74
- PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 7 of those 74
- BigPanda: first choice in 6 of those 74
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 5 of those 74
- Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 74
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 2 of those 74

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud.

- Dynatrace: first choice in 21 of those 84
- BigPanda: first choice in 14 of those 84
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 4 of those 84
- OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 84
- ServiceNow ITOM: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 84
- ServiceNow IT Operations Management: first choice in 2 of those 84
- AI Event Intelligence by LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 84

## Application performance monitoring

**Small business**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #7 of 14 at 2%).

- New Relic: first choice in 26 of those 65
- Sentry: first choice in 9 of those 65
- Scout APM: first choice in 7 of those 65
- AppSignal: first choice in 3 of those 65
- Atatus: first choice in 3 of those 65
- Datadog APM: first choice in 3 of those 65
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 65
- Honeybadger: first choice in 2 of those 65

**Mid-market**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #3 of 14 at 4%).

- New Relic: first choice in 20 of those 62
- Datadog APM: first choice in 14 of those 62
- Dynatrace: first choice in 3 of those 62
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 2 of those 62
- Atatus: first choice in 1 of those 62
- Microsoft Application Insights: first choice in 1 of those 62
- SigNoz: first choice in 1 of those 62
- Site24x7: first choice in 1 of those 62

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Grafana Cloud (Grafana Cloud is #9 of 10 at 0%).

- Dynatrace: first choice in 41 of those 80
- Datadog APM: first choice in 11 of those 80
- CubeAPM: first choice in 6 of those 80
- New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 80
- AppDynamics: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Elastic APM: first choice in 1 of those 80
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 1 of those 80
- OpManager Nexus: first choice in 1 of those 80

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