# Prometheus alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026 Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 872 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Prometheus 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/prometheus/alternatives ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - Datadog: 123 - TimescaleDB: 86 - OpenTelemetry Collector: 85 - Grafana: 61 - New Relic: 60 - Cribl Stream: 46 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #11 of 13 at 0%). - Grafana: first choice in 31 of those 82 - New Relic: first choice in 23 of those 82 - Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 82 - SigNoz: first choice in 7 of those 82 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 82 - Sentry: first choice in 2 of those 82 - CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 82 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 82 **Mid-market**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #5 of 10 at 5%). - Datadog: first choice in 19 of those 77 - Grafana: first choice in 18 of those 77 - New Relic: first choice in 14 of those 77 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 77 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 77 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 77 **Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus. - Datadog: first choice in 30 of those 82 - Dynatrace: first choice in 23 of those 82 - New Relic: first choice in 10 of those 82 - groundcover: first choice in 4 of those 82 - Chronosphere: first choice in 3 of those 82 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 82 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 82 - Last9: first choice in 1 of those 82 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #13 of 16 at 0%). - Site24x7: first choice in 16 of those 75 - Datadog: first choice in 9 of those 75 - Zabbix: first choice in 9 of those 75 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 75 - Grafana: first choice in 7 of those 75 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 75 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 5 of those 75 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 4 of those 75 **Mid-market**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #8 of 16 at 4%). - Datadog: first choice in 17 of those 68 - Zabbix: first choice in 6 of those 68 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 5 of those 68 - Site24x7: first choice in 5 of those 68 - Grafana: first choice in 3 of those 68 - New Relic: first choice in 3 of those 68 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 3 of those 68 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 68 **Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #13 of 14 at 0%). - Datadog: first choice in 33 of those 81 - Dynatrace: first choice in 19 of those 81 - Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 81 - New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 81 - Checkmk: first choice in 1 of those 81 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 81 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 1 of those 81 - Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 81 ## Time series databases **Small business**: 52 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #4 of 8 at 2%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 27 of those 52 - InfluxDB: first choice in 5 of those 52 - PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 5 of those 52 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 3 of those 52 - PostgreSQL: first choice in 2 of those 52 - InfluxDB 3 Core: first choice in 1 of those 52 - QuestDB: first choice in 1 of those 52 **Mid-market**: 57 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #5 of 10 at 2%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 23 of those 57 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 5 of those 57 - InfluxDB: first choice in 4 of those 57 - QuestDB: first choice in 2 of those 57 - PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 1 of those 57 - TimescaleDB, now marketed as Tiger Cloud / TigerData: first choice in 1 of those 57 **Enterprise**: 72 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #11 of 12 at 0%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 36 of those 72 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 9 of those 72 - InfluxDB: first choice in 6 of those 72 - InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: first choice in 3 of those 72 - QuestDB: first choice in 3 of those 72 - ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 72 - Grafana Mimir: first choice in 2 of those 72 - Amazon Timestream: first choice in 1 of those 72 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #6 of 15 at 3%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 39 of those 75 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 10 of those 75 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 75 - Vector: first choice in 6 of those 75 - Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 75 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 75 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 75 **Mid-market**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #9 of 18 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 27 of those 71 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 71 - Vector: first choice in 9 of those 71 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 71 - Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 71 - Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 71 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 1 of those 71 - Grafana LGTM: first choice in 1 of those 71 **Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #10 of 15 at 0%). - Cribl Stream: first choice in 30 of those 80 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 19 of those 80 - Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 80 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 80 - ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 80 - Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 80 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.