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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 235 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Tempo 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/tempo/alternatives

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

- OpenTelemetry Collector: 92
- Cribl Stream: 45
- Grafana Cloud: 16
- Vector: 15
- Datadog: 6
- SigNoz: 3

## Telemetry pipelines

**Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Tempo (Tempo is #12 of 15 at 1%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 43 of those 79
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 12 of those 79
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 6 of those 79
- Vector: first choice in 6 of those 79
- SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 79

**Mid-market**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Tempo (Tempo is #10 of 18 at 0%).

- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 31 of those 75
- Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 75
- Vector: first choice in 9 of those 75
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Bindplane: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Edge Delta: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Grafana LGTM: first choice in 1 of those 75

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Tempo.

- Cribl Stream: first choice in 29 of those 81
- OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 18 of those 81
- Datadog: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Coralogix: first choice in 2 of those 81
- groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 81
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Datadog Observability Pipelines: first choice in 1 of those 81

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