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Infrastructure monitoring · October 2026 Edition

Grafana vs Prometheus

One of fourteen models named Grafana first on the direct prompt; zero named Prometheus. Grafana was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Prometheus by fourteen and Grafana carries 33 labels and Prometheus 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Grafana

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

Prometheus

criticized challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share4%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%32%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels3331A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Grafana reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.New Relic was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. Datadog vs Grafana · Datadog vs Prometheus · Zabbix vs Grafana

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the infrastructure monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
GrafanaFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPrometheus
Direct101 against Prometheus
Paraphrase001 against Grafana · 1 against Prometheus
Comparative00
Budget-constrained02
Scale-constrained10
Negative001 against Grafana · 8 against Prometheus
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Grafana and Prometheus were named in the same answer 114 times, of the 292 answers naming Grafana and the 307 naming Prometheus. In those answers Prometheus took the first choice seven times and Grafana seventeen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Grafana and Prometheus stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Grafana Prometheus first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Grafana on the left and Prometheus on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Grafana and Prometheus stood in it.

Grafana first, Prometheus not the choice

1 of 14 modelsPrometheus was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GLM 4.7 FlashXDatadog, Grafana alternatives: Dynatrace, ManageEngine OpManager, New Relic

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniDatadog alternatives: Dynatrace, Grafana, New Relic
Gemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Better Stack, Grafana, LogicMonitor, Site24x7
Qwen 3.7 FlashDatadog alternatives: Grafana, Middleware.io, Paessler PRTG, Prometheus + Grafana, Zabbix
GPT-6 LunaDatadog alternatives: Grafana, New Relic

Neither was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Perplexity SonarPaessler PRTG alternatives: Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager, New Relic, Site24x7, Zabbix
Grok 4.1 FastNew Relic alternatives: Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager, Site24x7
Mistral SmallManageEngine OpManager, Site24x7 alternatives: Netdata
DeepSeek V4 FlashSite24x7 alternatives: Grafana Stack, ManageEngine OpManager, New Relic
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Kimi K2LogicMonitor alternatives: Better Stack, New Relic, Paessler PRTG, Site24x7
MiniMax M2.5Datadog alternatives: ManageEngine OpManager, Prometheus + Grafana, Sematext
Muse Glimmer 30BDatadog alternatives: LogicMonitor, ManageEngine OpManager, Paessler PRTG, Prometheus + Grafana, Site24x7, Zabbix

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Grafana leads by nine points.
Grafana12%#4 of 14
Prometheus4%#9 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana4%#6 of 13
Prometheus4%#8 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana0%#8 of 14
Prometheus0%#12 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Grafana

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“The Open-Standard / Developer-Preferred (Highly Recommend for 2026) * Grafana Cloud: Excellent for engineering-driven cultures.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Prometheus

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Avoid "turnkey" open source stacks when you lack the team to maintain upgrades... an unpatched Prometheus/Grafana deployment is a liability.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Open-source tools like vanilla Prometheus, while powerful, can require significant operational expertise to scale properly.” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“its local storage isn’t clustered or replicated. Don’t treat one instance as a highly available, durable monitoring backend” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.