# New Relic alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026 IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 848 of the 1,260 answers in the 5 categories where New Relic 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/new-relic/alternatives/ ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - OpenTelemetry Collector: 95 - Dynatrace: 55 - Datadog: 45 - Cribl Stream: 41 - Grafana: 24 - Vector: 23 ## Application performance monitoring **Small business**: 26 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #1 of 10 at 53%). - Sentry: first choice in 3 of those 26 - SolarWinds AppOptics: first choice in 3 of those 26 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 26 - Raygun: first choice in 2 of those 26 - Atatus: first choice in 1 of those 26 - Elastic APM: first choice in 1 of those 26 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 26 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 1 of those 26 **Mid-market**: 45 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #1 of 12 at 46%). - SigNoz: first choice in 4 of those 45 - Datadog APM: first choice in 3 of those 45 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 45 - OpenTelemetry: first choice in 2 of those 45 - Site24x7: first choice in 2 of those 45 - Elastic APM: first choice in 1 of those 45 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 45 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 1 of those 45 **Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 9 at 11%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 8 of those 45 - AppDynamics: first choice in 4 of those 45 - CubeAPM: first choice in 3 of those 45 - Datadog APM: first choice in 2 of those 45 - Dynatrace Platform Subscription: first choice in 1 of those 45 - Middleware.io: first choice in 1 of those 45 - Scout APM: first choice in 1 of those 45 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 39 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #2 of 12 at 15%). - Grafana: first choice in 11 of those 39 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 39 - SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 39 - Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 39 - Uptrace: first choice in 2 of those 39 - OpenObserve: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 39 - Sentry: first choice in 1 of those 39 **Mid-market**: 44 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #2 of 12 at 27%). - Grafana: first choice in 10 of those 44 - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 44 - SigNoz: first choice in 3 of those 44 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 44 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 44 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 44 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 44 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 44 **Enterprise**: 50 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 10 at 12%). - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 50 - Dynatrace: first choice in 6 of those 50 - groundcover: first choice in 4 of those 50 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 50 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 50 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 50 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 50 - Grafana Enterprise Stack: first choice in 1 of those 50 ## AIOps platforms **Small business**: 60 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #2 of 16 at 12%). - Atera: first choice in 14 of those 60 - Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 60 - Site24x7: first choice in 5 of those 60 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 4 of those 60 - Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 60 - ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: first choice in 3 of those 60 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 60 - PagerDuty: first choice in 3 of those 60 **Mid-market**: 59 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #1 of 10 at 17%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 7 of those 59 - BigPanda: first choice in 5 of those 59 - Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 59 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 3 of those 59 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 59 - Site24x7: first choice in 2 of those 59 - Amazon Aurora: first choice in 1 of those 59 - Atera: first choice in 1 of those 59 **Enterprise**: 76 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #6 of 11 at 2%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 22 of those 76 - BigPanda: first choice in 13 of those 76 - Datadog: first choice in 4 of those 76 - Coralogix: first choice in 3 of those 76 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 76 - ServiceNow IT Operations Management: first choice in 3 of those 76 - Datadog Event Management: first choice in 1 of those 76 - IBM AIOps / Cloud Pak for AIOps / Instana: first choice in 1 of those 76 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 58 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #7 of 14 at 5%). - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 9 of those 58 - Site24x7: first choice in 8 of those 58 - Zabbix: first choice in 8 of those 58 - Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 58 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 4 of those 58 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 2 of those 58 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 58 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 58 **Mid-market**: 56 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #3 of 13 at 16%). - Zabbix: first choice in 10 of those 56 - Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 56 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 3 of those 56 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 56 - Site24x7: first choice in 2 of those 56 - Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 56 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 56 - Netdata: first choice in 1 of those 56 **Enterprise**: 55 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #4 of 14 at 6%). - Datadog: first choice in 10 of those 55 - Dynatrace: first choice in 7 of those 55 - Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 55 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 55 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 55 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 55 - Grafana stack with Loki/Tempo: first choice in 1 of those 55 - Logz.io: first choice in 1 of those 55 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 79 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #11 of 12 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 38 of those 79 - Vector: first choice in 12 of those 79 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 10 of those 79 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 4 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 - Amplitude: first choice in 1 of those 79 **Mid-market**: 75 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #6 of 14 at 3%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 33 of those 75 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 9 of those 75 - Vector: first choice in 9 of those 75 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 75 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Bindplane: first choice in 1 of those 75 - Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline: first choice in 1 of those 75 **Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name New Relic (New Relic is #12 of 12 at 0%). - Cribl Stream: first choice in 32 of those 81 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 24 of those 81 - Dynatrace: first choice in 3 of those 81 - Vector: first choice in 2 of those 81 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 81 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 81 - Calyptia: first choice in 1 of those 81 - ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.