9 categories · RankedPrometheus + Grafana
Prometheus + Grafana is a full-stack observability offering from Grafana Cloud for monitoring infrastructure and applications, used by individual teams or across an organization · grafana.com ↗
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.
Site24x7 is first at 27%.
Datadog is first at 29%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Datadog is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“starting with Zabbix, Prometheus + Grafana, or Checkmk Community gives you enterprise-grade visibility”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you have DevOps / Linux skills and use Docker/Kubernetes: Go with Prometheus + Grafana.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Startup / Cloud-Native / K8s-first | Prometheus + Grafana”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
“Open-source or lightweight alternatives (like Prometheus + Grafana, OpenTelemetry with SigNoz, or Netdata) often deliver better value for many teams.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid if you do not have a dedicated SRE or DevOps team.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Prometheus is not designed for error tracking”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Prometheus/Grafana, Zabbix, and similar stacks can reduce license costs but require ongoing operation, scaling, upgrades, configuration, and troubleshooting.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“can reduce license costs, but the organization assumes upgrades, scaling, retention, reliability, and on-call responsibilities”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Prometheus + Grafana, over the 130 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 83 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 75 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 9 | View → | |
| 34 | 0 | View → | |
| 28 | 5 | View → | |
| 27 | 2 | View → | |
| 25 | 2 | View → | |
| 24 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 7 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Prometheus + Grafana →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Prometheus + Grafana's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- individual teams or across an organization
- Price stated
- Plans to suit every scale
- Starting price
- 19
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Hosting
- Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud
- Customers named
- BlackRock, Pegasystems, Lovable, LATAM Airlines, Delivery Hero, ASOS, SailPoint, Mux
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 109 of the 130 answers that named Prometheus + Grafana and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
283 of the 283 domain citations in answers naming Prometheus + Grafana 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,964 | 13 | 2026-09-14 | Observability, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 537 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 175 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 140 | undated | |||
| News or press | 79 | 5 | 2026-08-01 | Observability | |
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 1 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2021-04-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations blog
- 2026-09-10Synthetic monitoring labels update blog
- 2026-09-09How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud blog
- 2026-08-27Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier blog
- 2026-08-27How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability blog
- 2026-08-25The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications blog
Events in person
- March 5, 2026ObservabilityCON on the Road: TorontoDelta Hotels Toronto, Toronto, Canada · hosted
As the event pages on grafana.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grafana.com 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.