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Alternatives to Splunk, as AI models named them

In the October 2026 Edition, 934 of the 1,008 answers collected in the four categories where Splunk holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
Datadog123
Dynatrace69
New Relic68
Grafana66
Better Stack58
Atera26
First choices in the 934 answers that did not name Splunk, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Log management

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Splunk is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessSplunk is #11 of 11 here at 0% of first choices, 44 labels.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, seventeen products in all, the eight most named:

Better Stack36 of 84
SolarWinds Papertrail12 of 84
Grafana Loki10 of 84
Graylog9 of 84
Datadog Log Management8 of 84
Axiom3 of 84
Better Stack Logs2 of 84
Elastic Stack2 of 84
9 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketSplunk is #12 of 12 here at 0% of first choices, 55 labels.

Seventy-six of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in two. The first choices in those seventy-six answers, thirteen products in all, the eight most named:

Graylog14 of 76
Datadog Log Management13 of 76
Grafana Loki7 of 76
Better Stack5 of 76
Elastic Stack3 of 76
Grafana Cloud2 of 76
Grafana Cloud Logs2 of 76
Axiom1 of 76
5 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseSplunk is #1 of 10 here at 46% of first choices, 68 labels.

Forty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in thirty-one. The first choices in those forty-four answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

Datadog Log Management2 of 44
Elastic Stack2 of 44
Axiom1 of 44
ChaosSearch1 of 44
Coralogix1 of 44
CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale1 of 44
CubeAPM1 of 44
Dynatrace1 of 44
6 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

Observability platforms

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Splunk is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessSplunk is #11 of 12 here at 0% of first choices, 14 labels.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

Grafana33 of 84
New Relic13 of 84
SigNoz10 of 84
Better Stack9 of 84
Datadog7 of 84
Uptrace3 of 84
OpenObserve2 of 84
Prometheus + Grafana2 of 84
7 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketSplunk is #12 of 12 here at 0% of first choices, 17 labels.

Eighty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-three answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

Grafana21 of 83
New Relic20 of 83
Datadog19 of 83
SigNoz5 of 83
OpenObserve3 of 83
Dynatrace2 of 83
Prometheus2 of 83
Zabbix2 of 83
7 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseSplunk is #7 of 10 here at 2% of first choices, 20 labels.

Seventy-eight of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those seventy-eight answers, eleven products in all, the eight most named:

Datadog22 of 78
Dynatrace16 of 78
groundcover6 of 78
New Relic5 of 78
Splunk Observability Cloud3 of 78
Honeycomb2 of 78
Chronosphere1 of 78
Elastic Observability1 of 78
3 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

AIOps platforms

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Splunk is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessSplunk holds 5 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, twenty-four products in all, the eight most named:

Atera23 of 84
Datadog11 of 84
New Relic10 of 84
Site24x78 of 84
Grafana Cloud5 of 84
PagerDuty AIOps5 of 84
PagerDuty4 of 84
Better Stack3 of 84
16 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketSplunk is #9 of 10 here at 0% of first choices, 15 labels.

Eighty of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty answers, twenty products in all, the eight most named:

Dynatrace11 of 80
Datadog9 of 80
New Relic9 of 80
BigPanda6 of 80
Atera3 of 80
PagerDuty AIOps3 of 80
Amazon Aurora2 of 80
Grafana Cloud2 of 80
12 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseSplunk is #9 of 11 here at 0% of first choices, 16 labels.

Seventy-six of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-six answers, eleven products in all, the eight most named:

Dynatrace23 of 76
BigPanda11 of 76
Datadog6 of 76
Coralogix4 of 76
OpenObserve4 of 76
ServiceNow IT Operations Management2 of 76
Datadog Event Management1 of 76
IBM AIOps / Cloud Pak for AIOps / Instana1 of 76
3 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

Infrastructure monitoring

IT operations and endpoint. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Splunk is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessSplunk holds 7 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, sixteen products in all, the eight most named:

Site24x712 of 84
Paessler PRTG11 of 84
Zabbix9 of 84
Grafana8 of 84
Netdata8 of 84
UptimeRobot7 of 84
Datadog6 of 84
Better Stack5 of 84
8 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketSplunk is #13 of 13 here at 0% of first choices, 12 labels.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, sixteen products in all, the eight most named:

Datadog19 of 84
Zabbix11 of 84
New Relic8 of 84
ManageEngine OpManager4 of 84
Site24x74 of 84
Dynatrace2 of 84
Grafana2 of 84
Paessler PRTG2 of 84
8 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseSplunk is #11 of 14 here at 0% of first choices, 12 labels.

Seventy-seven of the eighty-four answers did not name Splunk; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-seven answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

Datadog24 of 77
Dynatrace14 of 77
Netdata7 of 77
New Relic3 of 77
Grafana2 of 77
SigNoz2 of 77
Splunk Observability Cloud2 of 77
Zabbix2 of 77
6 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Splunk neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Splunk only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Splunk's side.

Every answer and every label behind these figures is in the record, sent on request. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Splunk was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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