# Grafana IRM: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 19 judge labels across 2 categories by 10 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/grafana-irm

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Incident management and on-call](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/incident-management-and-on-call/index.md) | 0% | 13 | 11% | 18 |
| [Application performance monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/application-performance-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 62 | 100% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "If you have technical capacity and want zero ongoing costs, Grafana OnCall is excellent — just factor in maintenance time." (MiniMax M2.5, Incidents)
- "Best Free / Open-Source Option... Want self-hosted, no user limits and you already use Grafana: Grafana OnCall." (Muse Glimmer 30B, Incidents)
- "Budget-friendly; great if deep in Grafana ecosystem | Limited scheduling and post-mortem automation" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Incidents)
- "Everything bundled with your existing monitoring | Datadog On-Call or Grafana IRM" (Kimi K2, Incidents)

## And against it

- "Enterprise Suites (Grafana OnCall, Datadog Synthetics, etc.) for Startups: Paying $5k/month ... is often unnecessary." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, APM)
- "Caution is advised if you require a robust, battle-tested solution." (Mistral Small, Incidents)
- "Budget choice but lacks advanced scheduling features" (Kimi K2, Incidents)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Grafana IRM, from 44 of the 48 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- incident.io: 35
- rootly.com: 24
- g2.com: 17
- alertops.com: 15
- motadata.com: 12
- allquiet.app: 11
- capterra.com: 11
- hyperping.com: 11
- pagerduty.com: 10
- toolradar.com: 9

### Pages cited

- https://alertops.com/blogs/enterprise-incident-management-software: 13
- https://incident.io/blog/incident-management-tools-for-startups: 11
- https://motadata.com/blog/incident-management-tools: 11
- https://incident.io/blog/pagerduty-alternatives-2026-complete-guide: 10
- https://allquiet.app/blog/top-incident-management-solutions: 9
- https://incident.io/blog/incident-management-pricing-comparison-2026.md: 9
- https://rootly.com/sre/choose-the-right-incident-platform-12-solutions-compared: 9
- https://incident.io/blog/best-ai-incident-detection-tools-for-startups: 8

## In its own words

What Grafana IRM's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Fully-managed incident and response management including on-call scheduling, notifications, and incident management. (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- For: Not stated (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- Price stated: Free: $0; Pro: Starts at $20.00 / active IRM user; Enterprise: Custom (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- Starting price: $20.00 / active IRM user (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- Free plan or trial: Always free; $0; No credit card required (https://grafana.com/pricing/)

## What it publishes

Every page grafana.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 24060 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 1964 pages, 13 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-14
- case study: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2021-04-10
- webinar or virtual event: 175 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 537 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-11
- report or ebook: 78 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 24 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-24
- template or tool: 21 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 140 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 6 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-10
- news or press: 79 pages, 5 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-01
- Recent: 2026-09-14 blog: Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations https://grafana.com/blog/digital-experience-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud-session-replay-synthetic-checks-and-faster-investigations/
- Recent: 2026-09-10 blog: Synthetic monitoring labels update https://grafana.com/blog/synthetic-monitoring-labels-update/
- Recent: 2026-09-09 blog: How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud https://grafana.com/blog/how-to-monitor-cypress-tests-with-grafana-cloud/
- Recent: 2026-08-27 blog: Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier https://grafana.com/blog/identify-anomalies-outlier-detection-forecasting-how-grafana-cloud-uses-ai-ml-to-make-observability-easier/
- Recent: 2026-08-27 blog: How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability https://grafana.com/blog/how-to-measure-and-improve-instrumentation-quality-for-better-full-stack-observability/
- Recent: 2026-08-25 blog: The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications https://grafana.com/blog/the-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-a-shared-foundation-for-building-ai-applications/

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.