# Datadog alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026 IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 752 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Datadog holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/datadog/alternatives/ ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - OpenTelemetry Collector: 95 - Grafana: 53 - Cribl Stream: 41 - New Relic: 40 - Dynatrace: 23 - Vector: 22 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #8 of 14 at 5%). - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 8 of those 63 - Netdata: first choice in 7 of those 63 - Site24x7: first choice in 7 of those 63 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 7 of those 63 - Zabbix: first choice in 6 of those 63 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 63 - Grafana: first choice in 4 of those 63 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 2 of those 63 **Mid-market**: 59 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 13 at 28%). - Zabbix: first choice in 11 of those 59 - New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 59 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 3 of those 59 - Site24x7: first choice in 3 of those 59 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 59 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 59 - Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring Pro: first choice in 1 of those 59 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 59 **Enterprise**: 46 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 14 at 41%). - Netdata: first choice in 7 of those 46 - Dynatrace: first choice in 3 of those 46 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 46 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 46 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 46 - Grafana stack with Loki/Tempo: first choice in 1 of those 46 - Logz.io: first choice in 1 of those 46 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 1 of those 46 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 69 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #5 of 12 at 8%). - Grafana: first choice in 29 of those 69 - New Relic: first choice in 10 of those 69 - SigNoz: first choice in 9 of those 69 - Better Stack: first choice in 8 of those 69 - Uptrace: first choice in 3 of those 69 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 69 - Grafana + Prometheus: first choice in 1 of those 69 - Grafana Cloud / LGTM Stack: first choice in 1 of those 69 **Mid-market**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #3 of 12 at 18%). - Grafana: first choice in 17 of those 53 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 53 - SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 53 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 53 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 53 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 53 - Datadog APM: first choice in 1 of those 53 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 53 **Enterprise**: 46 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #1 of 10 at 37%). - groundcover: first choice in 6 of those 46 - New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 46 - Dynatrace: first choice in 3 of those 46 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 46 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 46 - Grafana Enterprise Stack: first choice in 1 of those 46 - Honeycomb: first choice in 1 of those 46 - OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 46 ## AIOps platforms **Small business**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #3 of 16 at 10%). - Atera: first choice in 14 of those 61 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 61 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 4 of those 61 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 61 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 61 - ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: first choice in 3 of those 61 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 61 - PagerDuty: first choice in 3 of those 61 **Mid-market**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #2 of 10 at 15%). - New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 62 - BigPanda: first choice in 5 of those 62 - Dynatrace: first choice in 4 of those 62 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 3 of those 62 - Amazon Aurora: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Atera: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 62 - Keep: first choice in 2 of those 62 **Enterprise**: 62 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #4 of 11 at 4%). - BigPanda: first choice in 12 of those 62 - Dynatrace: first choice in 11 of those 62 - OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 62 - Coralogix: first choice in 3 of those 62 - Datadog Event Management: first choice in 1 of those 62 - IBM AIOps / Cloud Pak for AIOps / Instana: first choice in 1 of those 62 - LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 62 - ServiceNow ITOM: first choice in 1 of those 62 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #12 of 12 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 38 of those 79 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 11 of those 79 - Vector: first choice in 11 of those 79 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 4 of those 79 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 2 of those 79 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 2 of those 79 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 79 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 79 **Mid-market**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #10 of 14 at 2%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 34 of those 77 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 10 of those 77 - Vector: first choice in 9 of those 77 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 77 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 77 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 77 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 77 - Bindplane: first choice in 1 of those 77 **Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Datadog (Datadog is #5 of 12 at 2%). - Cribl Stream: first choice in 29 of those 75 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 23 of those 75 - Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Vector: first choice in 2 of those 75 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 75 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 75 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 1 of those 75 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.