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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 439 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Splunk 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/alternatives

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

- Better Stack: 40
- Site24x7: 36
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: 29
- Dynatrace: 28
- BigPanda: 18
- Datadog: 17

## Log management

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #14 of 14 at 0%).

- Better Stack: first choice in 29 of those 83
- SolarWinds Papertrail: first choice in 15 of those 83
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 7 of those 83
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 7 of those 83
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 5 of those 83
- Graylog: first choice in 5 of those 83
- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Axiom: first choice in 3 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 67 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #12 of 12 at 0%).

- Datadog Log Management: first choice in 11 of those 67
- Grafana Loki: first choice in 10 of those 67
- Graylog: first choice in 7 of those 67
- Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 67
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 4 of those 67
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 3 of those 67
- Axiom: first choice in 2 of those 67
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 67

**Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #1 of 11 at 45%).

- Graylog: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 2 of those 45
- Sumo Logic: first choice in 2 of those 45
- Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 45
- CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale: first choice in 1 of those 45
- CubeAPM: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Elastic Stack: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 1 of those 45

## AIOps platforms

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #11 of 14 at 0%).

- Site24x7: first choice in 23 of those 83
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 18 of those 83
- Atera: first choice in 14 of those 83
- Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 83
- Better Stack: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 83
- ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #15 of 15 at 0%).

- Site24x7: first choice in 13 of those 81
- Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 81
- Dynatrace: first choice in 9 of those 81
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 7 of those 81
- PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 7 of those 81
- BigPanda: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #7 of 15 at 2%).

- Dynatrace: first choice in 19 of those 80
- BigPanda: first choice in 13 of those 80
- New Relic Applied Intelligence: first choice in 4 of those 80
- OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 80
- ServiceNow ITOM: first choice in 4 of those 80
- Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 80
- ServiceNow IT Operations Management: first choice in 2 of those 80
- AI Event Intelligence by LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 80

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