# Honeycomb alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 461 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Honeycomb 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/honeycomb/alternatives/

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

- New Relic: 97
- Dynatrace: 52
- Datadog: 45
- Grafana: 45
- Datadog APM: 34
- SigNoz: 27

## Application performance monitoring

**Small business**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb.

- New Relic: first choice in 35 of those 77
- Sentry: first choice in 12 of those 77
- Datadog APM: first choice in 7 of those 77
- SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 77
- Elastic APM: first choice in 3 of those 77
- OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 77
- Scout APM: first choice in 3 of those 77
- SolarWinds AppOptics: first choice in 3 of those 77

**Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #8 of 12 at 2%).

- New Relic: first choice in 23 of those 80
- Datadog APM: first choice in 15 of those 80
- SigNoz: first choice in 7 of those 80
- Site24x7: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Elastic APM: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 80
- IBM Instana: first choice in 2 of those 80

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #7 of 9 at 0%).

- Dynatrace: first choice in 30 of those 81
- Datadog APM: first choice in 12 of those 81
- New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 81
- AppDynamics: first choice in 4 of those 81
- CubeAPM: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Middleware.io: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Dynatrace Platform Subscription: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Logit.io: first choice in 1 of those 81

## Observability platforms

**Small business**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #8 of 12 at 2%).

- Grafana: first choice in 27 of those 71
- SigNoz: first choice in 10 of those 71
- New Relic: first choice in 9 of those 71
- Better Stack: first choice in 7 of those 71
- Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 71
- Uptrace: first choice in 3 of those 71
- OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 71
- Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 71

**Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb (Honeycomb is #7 of 12 at 2%).

- Grafana: first choice in 18 of those 73
- New Relic: first choice in 18 of those 73
- Datadog: first choice in 15 of those 73
- SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 73
- OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 73

**Enterprise**: 79 of 84 answers did not name Honeycomb.

- Datadog: first choice in 25 of those 79
- Dynatrace: first choice in 18 of those 79
- New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 79
- groundcover: first choice in 6 of those 79
- Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 79
- Grafana Enterprise Stack: first choice in 1 of those 79

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