# New Relic alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026 Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 873 of the 1,260 answers in the 5 categories where New Relic 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/alternatives ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - OpenTelemetry Collector: 95 - Cribl Stream: 46 - Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: 44 - Datadog: 41 - Zabbix: 37 - ManageEngine OpManager: 28 ## Application performance monitoring **Small business**: 32 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #1 of 14 at 60%). - Scout APM: first choice in 6 of those 32 - Sentry: first choice in 4 of those 32 - AppSignal: first choice in 2 of those 32 - Avo APM: first choice in 1 of those 32 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 32 - Honeybadger: first choice in 1 of those 32 - IBM Instana: first choice in 1 of those 32 - Site24x7: first choice in 1 of those 32 **Mid-market**: 34 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #1 of 14 at 61%). - Datadog APM: first choice in 2 of those 34 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 34 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 34 - Microsoft Application Insights: first choice in 1 of those 34 **Enterprise**: 40 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 10 at 8%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 9 of those 40 - CubeAPM: first choice in 3 of those 40 - AppDynamics: first choice in 2 of those 40 - Datadog APM: first choice in 2 of those 40 - Elastic APM: first choice in 1 of those 40 - ManageEngine Applications Manager: first choice in 1 of those 40 - OpManager Nexus: first choice in 1 of those 40 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 27 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #2 of 13 at 27%). - Grafana: first choice in 9 of those 27 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 27 - CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 27 - Datadog: first choice in 1 of those 27 - Grafana Labs: first choice in 1 of those 27 - Grafana Loki: first choice in 1 of those 27 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 27 - Sentry: first choice in 1 of those 27 **Mid-market**: 47 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 10 at 25%). - Grafana: first choice in 10 of those 47 - Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 47 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 47 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 47 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 47 - OpenTelemetry: first choice in 1 of those 47 - Prometheus: first choice in 1 of those 47 **Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 10 at 16%). - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 45 - Dynatrace: first choice in 5 of those 45 - Chronosphere: first choice in 2 of those 45 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 45 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 45 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 45 - Last9: first choice in 1 of those 45 - OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 45 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 56 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 16 at 12%). - Site24x7: first choice in 10 of those 56 - Zabbix: first choice in 9 of those 56 - Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 56 - Grafana: first choice in 4 of those 56 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 4 of those 56 - Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 56 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 3 of those 56 - Atera: first choice in 1 of those 56 **Mid-market**: 54 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #6 of 16 at 6%). - Zabbix: first choice in 10 of those 54 - Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 54 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 54 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 3 of those 54 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 54 - Datadog Infrastructure Pro: first choice in 1 of those 54 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 54 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 1 of those 54 **Enterprise**: 57 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #4 of 14 at 4%). - Datadog: first choice in 14 of those 57 - Dynatrace: first choice in 9 of those 57 - Netdata: first choice in 5 of those 57 - Checkmk: first choice in 1 of those 57 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 57 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 57 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 1 of those 57 - Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 57 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 74 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #14 of 15 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 39 of those 74 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 12 of those 74 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 74 - Vector: first choice in 4 of those 74 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 3 of those 74 - Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 74 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 74 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 74 **Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #8 of 18 at 2%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 37 of those 80 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 80 - Vector: first choice in 10 of those 80 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 80 - Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 80 - Grafana LGTM: first choice in 1 of those 80 **Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #15 of 15 at 0%). - Cribl Stream: first choice in 30 of those 81 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 19 of those 81 - Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 81 - Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 81 - Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 81 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 81 - ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81 - Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 81 ## Network monitoring and management **Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name New Relic. - Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: first choice in 38 of those 84 - Auvik: first choice in 10 of those 84 - Domotz: first choice in 8 of those 84 - Zabbix: first choice in 7 of those 84 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 5 of those 84 - NinjaOne: first choice in 5 of those 84 - Site24x7: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 84 **Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #11 of 12 at 0%). - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 13 of those 80 - Auvik: first choice in 11 of those 80 - Zabbix: first choice in 11 of those 80 - Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: first choice in 6 of those 80 - SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor: first choice in 6 of those 80 - LibreNMS: first choice in 3 of those 80 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Cisco Catalyst Center: first choice in 1 of those 80 **Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #14 of 15 at 0%). - Datadog Network Monitoring: first choice in 11 of those 82 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 11 of those 82 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 9 of those 82 - SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor: first choice in 7 of those 82 - Kentik: first choice in 5 of those 82 - Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: first choice in 5 of those 82 - Checkmk: first choice in 3 of those 82 - Cisco Catalyst Center: first choice in 3 of those 82 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.