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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 449 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Honeycomb 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/honeycomb/alternatives

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

- New Relic: 111
- Dynatrace: 69
- Datadog: 47
- Grafana: 42
- Datadog APM: 33
- Sentry: 13

## Observability platforms

**Small business**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #8 of 13 at 0%).

- Grafana: first choice in 23 of those 65
- New Relic: first choice in 14 of those 65
- SigNoz: first choice in 8 of those 65
- Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 65
- Better Stack: first choice in 4 of those 65
- Sentry: first choice in 2 of those 65
- CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 65
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Mid-market**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #6 of 10 at 2%).

- Grafana: first choice in 17 of those 71
- Datadog: first choice in 15 of those 71
- New Relic: first choice in 13 of those 71
- Prometheus: first choice in 3 of those 71
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 71
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 71
- OpenTelemetry: first choice in 1 of those 71

**Enterprise**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #9 of 10 at 0%).

- Datadog: first choice in 26 of those 77
- Dynatrace: first choice in 21 of those 77
- New Relic: first choice in 10 of those 77
- groundcover: first choice in 4 of those 77
- Chronosphere: first choice in 3 of those 77
- Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 77
- Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 77
- Last9: first choice in 1 of those 77

## Application performance monitoring

**Small business**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #10 of 14 at 0%).

- New Relic: first choice in 38 of those 77
- Sentry: first choice in 11 of those 77
- Scout APM: first choice in 8 of those 77
- Datadog APM: first choice in 4 of those 77
- AppSignal: first choice in 3 of those 77
- Atatus: first choice in 3 of those 77
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 77
- Honeybadger: first choice in 2 of those 77

**Mid-market**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #11 of 14 at 0%).

- New Relic: first choice in 31 of those 77
- Datadog APM: first choice in 16 of those 77
- Dynatrace: first choice in 4 of those 77
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 77
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 2 of those 77
- Atatus: first choice in 1 of those 77
- Microsoft Application Insights: first choice in 1 of those 77
- SigNoz: first choice in 1 of those 77

**Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb.

- Dynatrace: first choice in 44 of those 82
- Datadog APM: first choice in 13 of those 82
- CubeAPM: first choice in 6 of those 82
- New Relic: first choice in 5 of those 82
- AppDynamics: first choice in 3 of those 82
- Elastic APM: first choice in 1 of those 82
- ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 1 of those 82
- OpManager Nexus: first choice in 1 of those 82

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