# Splunk alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026 IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 934 of the 1,008 answers in the 4 categories where Splunk 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/splunk/alternatives/ ## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added) - Datadog: 123 - Dynatrace: 69 - New Relic: 68 - Grafana: 66 - Better Stack: 58 - Atera: 26 ## Log management **Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #11 of 11 at 0%). - Better Stack: first choice in 36 of those 84 - SolarWinds Papertrail: first choice in 12 of those 84 - Grafana Loki: first choice in 10 of those 84 - Graylog: first choice in 9 of those 84 - Datadog Log Management: first choice in 8 of those 84 - Axiom: first choice in 3 of those 84 - Better Stack Logs: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Elastic Stack: first choice in 2 of those 84 **Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #12 of 12 at 0%). - Graylog: first choice in 14 of those 76 - Datadog Log Management: first choice in 13 of those 76 - Grafana Loki: first choice in 7 of those 76 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 76 - Elastic Stack: first choice in 3 of those 76 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 76 - Grafana Cloud Logs: first choice in 2 of those 76 - Axiom: first choice in 1 of those 76 **Enterprise**: 44 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #1 of 10 at 46%). - Datadog Log Management: first choice in 2 of those 44 - Elastic Stack: first choice in 2 of those 44 - Axiom: first choice in 1 of those 44 - ChaosSearch: first choice in 1 of those 44 - Coralogix: first choice in 1 of those 44 - CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale: first choice in 1 of those 44 - CubeAPM: first choice in 1 of those 44 - Dynatrace: first choice in 1 of those 44 ## Observability platforms **Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #11 of 12 at 0%). - Grafana: first choice in 33 of those 84 - New Relic: first choice in 13 of those 84 - SigNoz: first choice in 10 of those 84 - Better Stack: first choice in 9 of those 84 - Datadog: first choice in 7 of those 84 - Uptrace: first choice in 3 of those 84 - OpenObserve: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Prometheus + Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 84 **Mid-market**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #12 of 12 at 0%). - Grafana: first choice in 21 of those 83 - New Relic: first choice in 20 of those 83 - Datadog: first choice in 19 of those 83 - SigNoz: first choice in 5 of those 83 - OpenObserve: first choice in 3 of those 83 - Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 83 - Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 83 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 83 **Enterprise**: 78 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #7 of 10 at 2%). - Datadog: first choice in 22 of those 78 - Dynatrace: first choice in 16 of those 78 - groundcover: first choice in 6 of those 78 - New Relic: first choice in 5 of those 78 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 78 - Honeycomb: first choice in 2 of those 78 - Chronosphere: first choice in 1 of those 78 - Elastic Observability: first choice in 1 of those 78 ## AIOps platforms **Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk. - Atera: first choice in 23 of those 84 - Datadog: first choice in 11 of those 84 - New Relic: first choice in 10 of those 84 - Site24x7: first choice in 8 of those 84 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 5 of those 84 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 5 of those 84 - PagerDuty: first choice in 4 of those 84 - Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 84 **Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #9 of 10 at 0%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 11 of those 80 - Datadog: first choice in 9 of those 80 - New Relic: first choice in 9 of those 80 - BigPanda: first choice in 6 of those 80 - Atera: first choice in 3 of those 80 - PagerDuty AIOps: first choice in 3 of those 80 - Amazon Aurora: first choice in 2 of those 80 - Grafana Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 80 **Enterprise**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #9 of 11 at 0%). - Dynatrace: first choice in 23 of those 76 - BigPanda: first choice in 11 of those 76 - Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 76 - Coralogix: first choice in 4 of those 76 - OpenObserve: first choice in 4 of those 76 - ServiceNow IT Operations Management: first choice in 2 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**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk. - Site24x7: first choice in 12 of those 84 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 11 of those 84 - Zabbix: first choice in 9 of those 84 - Grafana: first choice in 8 of those 84 - Netdata: first choice in 8 of those 84 - UptimeRobot: first choice in 7 of those 84 - Datadog: first choice in 6 of those 84 - Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 84 **Mid-market**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #13 of 13 at 0%). - Datadog: first choice in 19 of those 84 - Zabbix: first choice in 11 of those 84 - New Relic: first choice in 8 of those 84 - ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 4 of those 84 - Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 84 - Dynatrace: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 84 - Paessler PRTG: first choice in 2 of those 84 **Enterprise**: 77 of 84 answers did not name Splunk (Splunk is #11 of 14 at 0%). - Datadog: first choice in 24 of those 77 - Dynatrace: first choice in 14 of those 77 - Netdata: first choice in 7 of those 77 - New Relic: first choice in 3 of those 77 - Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 77 - SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 77 - Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 77 - Zabbix: first choice in 2 of those 77 Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.