# Prometheus alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026 IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 876 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Prometheus 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/prometheus/alternatives/ ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - Datadog: 98 - TimescaleDB: 89 - OpenTelemetry Collector: 79 - Grafana: 53 - New Relic: 48 - Cribl Stream: 46 ## Infrastructure monitoring **Small business**: 72 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #9 of 14 at 4%). - Site24x7: first choice in 11 of those 72 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 10 of those 72 - Netdata: first choice in 8 of those 72 - Zabbix: first choice in 7 of those 72 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 6 of those 72 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 72 - Datadog: first choice in 5 of those 72 - Grafana: first choice in 5 of those 72 **Mid-market**: 66 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #8 of 13 at 4%). - Datadog: first choice in 14 of those 66 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 66 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 66 - Zabbix: first choice in 4 of those 66 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 66 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 2 of those 66 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 2 of those 66 - Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring Pro: first choice in 1 of those 66 **Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #12 of 14 at 0%). - Datadog: first choice in 26 of those 75 - Dynatrace: first choice in 14 of those 75 - Netdata: first choice in 6 of those 75 - New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 75 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 75 - Grafana: first choice in 1 of those 75 ## Telemetry pipelines **Small business**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #9 of 12 at 0%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 33 of those 73 - Vector: first choice in 12 of those 73 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 10 of those 73 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 4 of those 73 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 2 of those 73 - Grafana Stack: first choice in 2 of those 73 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 73 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 73 **Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #5 of 14 at 3%). - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 24 of those 70 - Cribl Stream: first choice in 11 of those 70 - Vector: first choice in 10 of those 70 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 4 of those 70 - Fluent Bit: first choice in 2 of those 70 - Grafana Alloy: first choice in 2 of those 70 - New Relic: first choice in 2 of those 70 - Bindplane: first choice in 1 of those 70 **Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus. - Cribl Stream: first choice in 33 of those 82 - OpenTelemetry Collector: first choice in 22 of those 82 - Dynatrace: first choice in 4 of those 82 - Datadog: first choice in 2 of those 82 - Vector: first choice in 2 of those 82 - groundcover: first choice in 2 of those 82 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 82 - Calyptia: first choice in 1 of those 82 ## Time series databases **Small business**: 60 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #6 of 9 at 2%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 30 of those 60 - InfluxDB: first choice in 6 of those 60 - PostgreSQL: first choice in 6 of those 60 - PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 4 of those 60 - QuestDB: first choice in 4 of those 60 - Amazon Timestream: first choice in 2 of those 60 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 2 of those 60 - InfluxDB 3 Core: first choice in 1 of those 60 **Mid-market**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #5 of 9 at 2%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 27 of those 63 - InfluxDB: first choice in 5 of those 63 - QuestDB: first choice in 3 of those 63 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 2 of those 63 - InfluxDB OSS: first choice in 1 of those 63 - PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 63 - Tiger Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 63 **Enterprise**: 78 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #9 of 10 at 0%). - TimescaleDB: first choice in 32 of those 78 - InfluxDB: first choice in 11 of those 78 - VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 10 of those 78 - QuestDB: first choice in 6 of those 78 - Amazon Timestream: first choice in 3 of those 78 - InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: first choice in 3 of those 78 - Datadog: first choice in 1 of those 78 - Timescale Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 78 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #10 of 12 at 2%). - Grafana: first choice in 30 of those 80 - New Relic: first choice in 13 of those 80 - Better Stack: first choice in 9 of those 80 - SigNoz: first choice in 9 of those 80 - Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 80 - Uptrace: first choice in 3 of those 80 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 80 **Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus (Prometheus is #8 of 12 at 2%). - Datadog: first choice in 17 of those 73 - New Relic: first choice in 17 of those 73 - Grafana: first choice in 15 of those 73 - SigNoz: first choice in 4 of those 73 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 73 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 73 - Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 73 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 73 **Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Prometheus. - Datadog: first choice in 27 of those 84 - Dynatrace: first choice in 18 of those 84 - New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 84 - groundcover: first choice in 6 of those 84 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 84 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 84 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 84 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.