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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 537 of the 756 answers in the 3 categories where Grafana 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/alternatives

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

- OpenTelemetry Collector: 85
- Datadog: 74
- Cribl Stream: 44
- Dynatrace: 29
- New Relic: 21
- Site24x7: 20

## Observability platforms

**Small business**: 20 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #1 of 13 at 38%).

- Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 20
- New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 20
- CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 20
- Datadog: first choice in 1 of those 20
- Grafana Labs: first choice in 1 of those 20
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 1 of those 20
- PostHog: first choice in 1 of those 20
- Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 20

**Mid-market**: 38 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #1 of 10 at 32%).

- Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 38
- New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 38

**Enterprise**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #5 of 10 at 2%).

- Datadog: first choice in 15 of those 53
- Dynatrace: first choice in 11 of those 53
- New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 53
- groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 53
- OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 53

## Infrastructure monitoring

**Small business**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #5 of 16 at 8%).

- Site24x7: first choice in 15 of those 62
- Zabbix: first choice in 10 of those 62
- Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 62
- Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 5 of those 62
- Paessler PRTG: first choice in 4 of those 62
- New Relic: first choice in 3 of those 62
- Netdata: first choice in 2 of those 62
- Atera: first choice in 1 of those 62

**Mid-market**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #5 of 16 at 8%).

- Datadog: first choice in 16 of those 64
- Zabbix: first choice in 8 of those 64
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 5 of those 64
- Site24x7: first choice in 5 of those 64
- New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 64
- Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 64
- Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 64
- Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 64

**Enterprise**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #7 of 14 at 2%).

- Datadog: first choice in 25 of those 73
- Dynatrace: first choice in 17 of those 73
- Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 73
- New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Checkmk: first choice in 1 of those 73
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 73
- ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 1 of those 73
- Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 73

## Telemetry pipelines

**Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #11 of 15 at 1%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 38 of those 75
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 11 of those 75
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 75
- Vector: first choice in 6 of those 75
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 75
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Vector.dev: first choice in 2 of those 75

**Mid-market**: 72 of 84 answers did not name Grafana (Grafana is #6 of 18 at 2%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 28 of those 72
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 72
- Vector: first choice in 9 of those 72
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 72
- Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 72
- Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 72
- Fluent Bit: first choice in 1 of those 72
- Grafana LGTM: first choice in 1 of those 72

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Grafana.

- Cribl Stream: first choice in 28 of those 80
- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 19 of those 80
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 80
- groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 80
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 80
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 80

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