# SolarWinds Papertrail alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 204 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where SolarWinds Papertrail 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/solarwinds-papertrail/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Datadog Log Management: 35
- Splunk: 32
- Better Stack: 13
- Graylog: 12
- Grafana Loki: 11
- Grafana Cloud Logs: 10

## Log management

**Small business**: 44 of 84 answers did not name SolarWinds Papertrail (SolarWinds Papertrail is #2 of 14 at 16%).

- Better Stack: first choice in 11 of those 44
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 6 of those 44
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 4 of those 44
- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 2 of those 44
- Axiom: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 1 of those 44
- Graylog: first choice in 1 of those 44

**Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name SolarWinds Papertrail (SolarWinds Papertrail is #8 of 12 at 3%).

- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 21 of those 76
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 7 of those 76
- Graylog: first choice in 7 of those 76
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Coralogix: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Axiom: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 2 of those 76

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name SolarWinds Papertrail.

- Splunk: first choice in 32 of those 84
- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 12 of those 84
- Graylog: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Sumo Logic: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 84
- CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale: first choice in 1 of those 84

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