# Splunk Observability Cloud alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 464 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Splunk Observability Cloud 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/splunk-observability-cloud/alternatives

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

- OpenTelemetry Collector: 100
- Grafana: 56
- Datadog: 44
- New Relic: 44
- Cribl Stream: 41
- Grafana Cloud: 18

## Observability platforms

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #12 of 13 at 0%).

- Grafana: first choice in 33 of those 84
- New Relic: first choice in 23 of those 84
- Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 84
- SigNoz: first choice in 8 of those 84
- Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Sentry: first choice in 2 of those 84
- CloudWatch: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #10 of 10 at 0%).

- Grafana: first choice in 20 of those 76
- Datadog: first choice in 15 of those 76
- New Relic: first choice in 13 of those 76
- Prometheus: first choice in 3 of those 76
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 76
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 76
- OpenTelemetry: first choice in 1 of those 76

**Enterprise**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #8 of 10 at 2%).

- Datadog: first choice in 14 of those 63
- Dynatrace: first choice in 14 of those 63
- New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 63
- groundcover: first choice in 4 of those 63
- Chronosphere: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 63
- Last9: first choice in 1 of those 63

## Telemetry pipelines

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #15 of 15 at 0%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 44 of those 83
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 14 of those 83
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 83
- Vector: first choice in 6 of those 83
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Grafana Alloy: first choice in 3 of those 83
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 2 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #17 of 18 at 0%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 38 of those 83
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 83
- Vector: first choice in 10 of those 83
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 83
- Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 83

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk Observability Cloud is #13 of 15 at 0%).

- Cribl Stream: first choice in 25 of those 75
- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 18 of those 75
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 75
- groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 75
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 75

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