# Grafana IRM alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 225 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Grafana IRM 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/grafana-irm/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- PagerDuty: 61
- incident.io: 61
- Better Stack: 13
- Rootly: 10
- Opsgenie: 8
- Squadcast: 8

## Incident management and on-call

**Small business**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Grafana IRM (Grafana IRM is #10 of 13 at 0%).

- incident.io: first choice in 27 of those 76
- Better Stack: first choice in 11 of those 76
- PagerDuty: first choice in 6 of those 76
- Opsgenie: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Rootly: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Squadcast: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Hyperping: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Spike.sh: first choice in 2 of those 76

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Grafana IRM (Grafana IRM is #5 of 11 at 7%).

- incident.io: first choice in 23 of those 70
- PagerDuty: first choice in 19 of those 70
- Freshservice: first choice in 6 of those 70
- Rootly: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Squadcast: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 70
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 70
- FireHydrant: first choice in 1 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Grafana IRM.

- PagerDuty: first choice in 36 of those 79
- incident.io: first choice in 11 of those 79
- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 6 of those 79
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 4 of those 79
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Rootly: first choice in 2 of those 79
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Incident IO: first choice in 1 of those 79

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