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Grafana Alloy

24Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

10 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Grafana Alloy was named 9 times in Telemetry pipelines and 1 other category, where OpenTelemetry Collector led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business20 of 103

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 124

under the label threshold

Enterprise22 of 98

under the label threshold

In telemetry pipelines · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Grafana Alloy for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	2%	9 of 124	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	41 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Grafana Alloy yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Grafana Alloy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Instead, use Grafana Alloy—Grafana’s open-source, OTel-compatible collector designed to replace them.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Telemetry pipelines · negative prompt · first choice

“Best overall for most mid-market B2B firms: Grafana Alloy” Perplexity Sonar · Telemetry pipelines · direct prompt · first choice

“For Grafana‑centric stacks with built‑in Prometheus pipelines: Grafana Alloy.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Telemetry pipelines · comparative prompt · alternative

“use Grafana Alloy if its Prometheus and Grafana integrations suit your stack” GPT-6 Luna · Telemetry pipelines · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana Alloy, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana Alloy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OpenTelemetry Collector19 of 2413Not among the top eight

Cribl Stream13 of 243Not among the top eight

Vector12 of 242Not among the top eight

Fluent Bit12 of 241Not among the top eight

Datadog6 of 241Not among the top eight

Edge Delta4 of 240Not among the top eight

Grafana Loki4 of 240Not among the top eight

New Relic4 of 240Not among the top eight

Prometheus4 of 240Not among the top eight

Bindplane3 of 241Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Grafana Alloy. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 24 answers that named Grafana Alloy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

grafana.comYour site14

cribl.io10

opentelemetry.io10

edgedelta.com6

docs.cribl.io5

motadata.com5

atatus.com4

chronosphere.io4

cubeapm.com4

docs.fluentbit.io4

Fifty-two of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Grafana Alloy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

opentelemetry.io/docs/collector9

grafana.com/oss/alloy-opentelemetry-collector7

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/best-observability-pipeline-solutions-for-enterprise6

grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/introduction/otel_alloy5

cribl.io/resources/sg/cribl-solution-guide4

edgedelta.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/674488871ba0da4611a147c3_whitepaper-sharing-compr4

external.pi.gpi.aws.gartner.com/reviews/market/telemetry-pipelines4

edgedelta.com/company/blog/top-3-telemetry-pipelines-cribl-vs-edge-delta-vs-diy-openteleme3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

grafana.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Grafana Alloy takes 2% of first choices and OpenTelemetry Collector takes 37%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “telemetry pipeline”

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not in the top ten

Position for “telemetry pipelines”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,900 a month (“grafana alloy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 79 a month
Its company's site: grafana.com shared with Grafana Cloud's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 84,520 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 23,340 · 1,526 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 30,353
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 76 text, 43 image, 1 video · 116 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2022, as Raintank Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 57 in the year, 63 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 124 in telemetry pipelines

Segment leader

37%

OpenTelemetry Collector

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 24 answers
Its own site cited: in 21 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Follow Grafana Alloy

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The company

Grafana Cloud is the company behind Grafana Alloy.

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On record

Company records

Also from Grafana Cloud: Grafana Cloud / LGTM, Grafana Cloud / LGTM Stack, Grafana Cloud Logs, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Synthetic Monitoring

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Monitor
grafana.com/integrations
Free plan or trial: The Free Forever plan; Get started free; Jump right in, no registration required. grafana.com
Certifications: FEDRAMP CompliantNATSEC100 CertifiedPCI DSS CompliantA-LIGN CertifiedAICPA SOC Type II VerifiedGDPR CompliantSOC 2ISO/IEC 27001
Customers named: BlackRockPegasystemsLovableLATAM AirlinesDelivery HeroASOSSailpointMux
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, hosting

What Grafana Alloy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: grafana.com, grafana.com/pricing, trust.grafana.com, grafana.com/products/cloud, grafana.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Grafana Alloy's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Grafana Alloy, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Grafana Alloy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Grafana Alloy is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Grafana Alloy, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.