4 categories · RankedOpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is an open standard for instrumenting applications and collecting observability data, used together with a separate backend · opentelemetry.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Grafana is first at 38%.
Grafana is first at 32%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Datadog is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“1. Open-Source Stack (Most Economical) Prometheus + Grafana + OpenTelemetry - Cost: Completely free (open source)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For new infrastructure, consider the OpenTelemetry + Grafana stack for vendor independence”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“To reduce lock-in, use OpenTelemetry where practical: it’s designed to be vendor-neutral and interoperable.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · alternative
“Pick OpenTelemetry if: You're building a modern, multi-cloud stack with diverse instrumentation needs.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OpenTelemetry, over the 24 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on OpenTelemetry's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- For Collector component developers
- Integrations
- 1163
- Customers named
- Alibaba, eBay, GitHub, Heroku, Mercado Libre, Shopify, Skyscanner, UiPath
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 18 of the 24 answers that named OpenTelemetry and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-six of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming OpenTelemetry came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 273 | 17 | 2026-09-25 | API gateways | |
| News or press | 13 | 4 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | 0 | 2026-03-19 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Exploring instrumentation ecosystem blog
- 2026-09-22Otel prometheus interoperability blog
- 2026-09-21Gc elections blog
- 2026-09-18Dual dotnet metrics export with otlp and prometheus blog
- 2026-09-16K8s attributes processor v1 blog
- 2026-09-11Environment variable context propagation blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page opentelemetry.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.