9 categories · RankedPrometheus
Prometheus is an open source metrics and monitoring system for applications, systems, and services · prometheus.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
“Kubernetes & Cloud-Native (Budget Aware) | Prometheus + Grafana | Industry standard, native Kubernetes support, highly customizable.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“1. Open-Source Stack (Most Economical) Prometheus + Grafana + OpenTelemetry - Cost: Completely free (open source)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“the best choice is usually Prometheus if your main workload is monitoring/metrics, because it's free, open source”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Choose established options like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse for most use cases”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Prometheus as a primary long-term, large-scale TSDB... be cautious if you need multi-year retention, high availability, or broad analytical queries.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Using local Prometheus TSDB disk storage to retain multi-year historical metrics will eventually lead to slow queries and OOM crashes”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Open-source like Zabbix/Prometheus + Grafana work if you have in-house talent for maintenance, but they add operational burden.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Don't expose Prometheus, Alertmanager, exporters, or their metrics and debugging endpoints directly to the public internet.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Prometheus, over the 351 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 142 | 33 | Compare → | |
| 135 | 69 | Compare → | |
| 135 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 123 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 112 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 110 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 95 | 9 | View → | |
| 95 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 95 | 1 | View → | |
| 67 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Prometheus →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Prometheus's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Monitor your applications, systems, and services
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 280 of the 351 answers that named Prometheus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
574 of the 614 domain citations in answers naming Prometheus came from a third party's page. Forty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 60 | 1 | 2026-09-21 | Feature flags | |
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 7 | 0 | 2025-08-25 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2022-05-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Otel prometheus interoperability survey blog
- 2026-06-30Learn cloud with lfx blog
- 2026-04-22Ask the prometheus docs with kapa ai blog
- 2026-04-08Introducing ux research working group blog
- 2026-03-05Uncached io blog
- 2026-02-14Modernizing prometheus composite samples blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page prometheus.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. Read September 29, 2026.