Telemetry pipelines · October 2026 Edition
New Relic vs Grafana Loki
One of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named Grafana Loki. New Relic was named by eleven of the fourteen models and Grafana Loki by twelve and New Relic carries 18 labels and Grafana Loki 15, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eight categories this edition.
Named in eight categories this edition.
First-choice share3%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate11%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1815A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, New Relic reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.OpenTelemetry Collector was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. OpenTelemetry Collector vs New Relic · OpenTelemetry Collector vs Grafana Loki · Cribl Stream 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 telemetry pipelines page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGrafana Loki
Direct101 against New Relic
Paraphrase10
Comparative00
Budget-constrained011 against New Relic
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
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 New Relic and Grafana Loki stood in it.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
New Relic Grafana Loki first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, New Relic on the left and Grafana Loki on the right.The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where New Relic and Grafana Loki stood in it.
New Relic first, Grafana Loki not the choice
1 of 14 modelsGrafana Loki was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Muse Glimmer 30BCribl Stream, New Relic alternatives: Datadog, Edge Delta, Grafana Cloud, Middleware.io, OpenTelemetry Collector, SigNoz, Uptrace
Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Grok 4.1 FastOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: ClickHouse Cloud, Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Loki, Honeycomb, Jaeger, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Prometheus, SigNoz, Tempo, Thanos, Uptrace, Vector
DeepSeek V4 FlashGrafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, New Relic
GLM 4.7 FlashXGrafana Observability Stack alternatives: Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic
Neither was named
10 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice alternatives: OpenTelemetry Collector
GPT-5.4 miniOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Census, Google BigQuery, Hightouch, Looker, Metabase, RudderStack, Snowflake, Twilio Segment, dbt
Gemini 3.5 FlashOpenTelemetry Collector, PostHog, RudderStack alternatives: BindPlane OP, Cribl Stream, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb
Perplexity SonarGrafana Alloy alternatives: AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, Datadog Observability Pipelines, Edge Delta
Mistral SmallOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline, Grafana LGTM, OpenObserve, Vector
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashVector alternatives: Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector
Kimi K2Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Fluent Bit, Vector
MiniMax M2.5Vector alternatives: Datadog
GPT-6 LunaGrafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Datadog, Honeycomb
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
Level: the same share of first choices.
New Relic0%#11 of 12Grafana Loki0%#10 of 12Mid-marketThe figures above
New Relic leads by two points.
New Relic3%#6 of 14Grafana Loki2%#8 of 14Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
New Relic0%#12 of 12Grafana Loki0%#– of 12What the models said about New Relic
No label in this category carried a quote.
What the models said about Grafana Loki
No label in this category carried a quote.
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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.