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Infrastructure monitoring · October 2026 Edition

Zabbix vs Grafana

Zero of fourteen models named Zabbix first on the direct prompt; one named Grafana. Zabbix was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Grafana by twelve and Zabbix carries 46 labels and Grafana 33, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Zabbix

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

Grafana

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share20%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate22%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#6A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels4633A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Zabbix 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 Zabbix · Datadog vs Grafana · Zabbix vs New Relic

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.
ZabbixFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGrafana
Direct011 against Zabbix
Paraphrase001 against Zabbix · 1 against Grafana
Comparative00
Budget-constrained100
Scale-constrained011 against Zabbix
Negative107 against Zabbix · 1 against Grafana
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.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Zabbix and Grafana 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
Zabbix Grafana first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zabbix on the left and Grafana on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Grafana first, Zabbix not the choice

1 of 14 modelsZabbix 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

6 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
Perplexity SonarPaessler PRTG alternatives: Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager, New Relic, Site24x7, Zabbix
Qwen 3.7 FlashDatadog alternatives: Grafana, Middleware.io, Paessler PRTG, Prometheus + Grafana, Zabbix
GPT-6 LunaDatadog alternatives: Grafana, New Relic
Muse Glimmer 30BDatadog alternatives: LogicMonitor, ManageEngine OpManager, Paessler PRTG, Prometheus + Grafana, Site24x7, Zabbix

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
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

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
Zabbix leads by two points.
Zabbix14%#3 of 14
Grafana12%#4 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Zabbix leads by sixteen points.
Zabbix20%#2 of 13
Grafana4%#6 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Zabbix leads by four points.
Zabbix4%#6 of 14
Grafana0%#8 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Zabbix

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 Nagios and raw Zabbix if you value speed and ease-of-use over granular control.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Zabbix if you need modern UI and simplicity, as its user interface feels dated.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Zabbix – best all-in-one for traditional infrastructure ... Need one install with UI, alerting and auto-discovery and minimal ops overhead → Zabbix.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice

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
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.