| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 46% | 1 of 66 | 12% | 65 | endorsed leader | ▼−5Since September 2026: 54% → 49%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 27% | 2 of 80 | 14% | 63 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 27% → 31%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AIOps platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 17% | 1 of 93 | 3% | 36 | accepted challenger | |
| Infrastructure monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 16% | 3 of 79 | 16% | 49 | accepted challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 22% → 18%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 3% | 6 of 124 | 11% | 18 | accepted challenger | |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 3% | 8 of 110 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% | |
| Network monitoring and management | Network and edge | 0% | 41 of 78 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26% | |
| LLM gateways and observability | Data platform | 0% | 63 of 69 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIOps | 0% | 18% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 18% now. | New this edition | Rank 1 of 93, unchanged |
| APM | 54% | 49% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 54% → 49%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 66, unchanged |
| Infra monitoring | 22% | 18% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 22% → 18%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 3 of 79 |
| Data observability | 0% | 4% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. | New this edition | Rank 8 of 110, unchanged |
| Observability | 27% | 31% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 27% → 31%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 80, unchanged |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 6 of 124, unchanged |
| Network monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 41 of 78, unchanged |
| LLM gateways | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 63 of 69, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 8 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| Grok 4.20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 28 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| Kimi K2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 17 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Offers a simpler pricing model than Datadog... strong, unified platform that is often much easier to budget for at a 500-person scale.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Infra monitoring · scale prompt · first choice
“New Relic is recommended for teams wanting all telemetry types on a single ingest meter with a genuinely useful free tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Observability · direct prompt · first choice
“New Relic (Often considered the most generous) ... It offers the highest data allowance among major enterprise vendors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · APM · budget prompt · first choice
“New Relic (The Best SaaS Free-Tier Option) ... Its 100 GB/month free tier includes full-access AIOps and APM tools.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AIOps · budget prompt · first choice
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.
“| New Relic/Datadog | SaaS | Limited free | High ($0.35/GB + users) | Avoid for tight budgets |” Grok 4.20 · Observability · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid SaaS like Datadog/New Relic (start at $15+/host/month, costs explode)” Grok 4.20 · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · hard negative
“New Relic if your team lacks a dedicated observability engineer.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · APM · negative prompt · hard negative
“New Relic Why be cautious: - Complex pricing model” Kimi K2 · Observability · negative prompt · hard negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 629 of the 720 answers that named New Relic and are not a share of its labels.
1,538 of the 1,854 domain citations in answers naming New Relic came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 806 | 6 | 2026-09-10 | APM, FinOps | |
| Blog | 707 | 19 | 2026-09-29 | APM, Observability | |
| Case study | 106 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 67 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | APM, Logs | |
| Conference or event | 36 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 35 | 2 | 2026-09-09 | APM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 30 | 0 | 2026-04-02 | APM, Logs | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 15 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 13 | undated | APM | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated |
As the event pages on newrelic.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
Every page newrelic.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What New Relic's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: newrelic.com, newrelic.com/jp/pricing, trust.newrelic.com, newrelic.com/solutions/aiops, newrelic.com/fr/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 New Relic'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 New Relic, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for New Relic by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
AI models recommend New Relic first in Application performance monitoring this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
New Relic is among the products AI models recommend first in Observability platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
AI models recommend New Relic first in AIOps platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
New Relic is among the products AI models recommend first in Infrastructure monitoring this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.