# New Relic Logs alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 218 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where New Relic Logs 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/new-relic-logs/alternatives

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

- Datadog Log Management: 31
- Splunk: 29
- Better Stack: 27
- Grafana Loki: 15
- Graylog: 15
- SolarWinds Papertrail: 14

## Log management

**Small business**: 69 of 84 answers did not name New Relic Logs (New Relic Logs is #9 of 14 at 2%).

- Better Stack: first choice in 22 of those 69
- SolarWinds Papertrail: first choice in 14 of those 69
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 7 of those 69
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 5 of those 69
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 5 of those 69
- Graylog: first choice in 4 of those 69
- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Axiom: first choice in 1 of those 69

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name New Relic Logs (New Relic Logs is #10 of 12 at 0%).

- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 16 of those 70
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 8 of those 70
- Graylog: first choice in 7 of those 70
- Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 70
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Axiom: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 79 of 84 answers did not name New Relic Logs (New Relic Logs is #8 of 11 at 2%).

- Splunk: first choice in 29 of those 79
- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 12 of those 79
- Graylog: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Sumo Logic: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 79
- CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale: first choice in 1 of those 79
- CubeAPM: first choice in 1 of those 79

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