# Zabbix alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 350 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Zabbix 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/zabbix/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Datadog: 40
- Auvik: 21
- Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: 18
- Dynatrace: 15
- ManageEngine OpManager: 15
- New Relic: 13

## Infrastructure monitoring

**Small business**: 48 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #3 of 14 at 14%).

- Grafana: first choice in 6 of those 48
- Better Stack: first choice in 5 of those 48
- UptimeRobot: first choice in 5 of those 48
- Netdata: first choice in 4 of those 48
- New Relic: first choice in 4 of those 48
- Paessler PRTG: first choice in 4 of those 48
- Site24x7: first choice in 4 of those 48
- Datadog: first choice in 3 of those 48

**Mid-market**: 58 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #2 of 13 at 20%).

- Datadog: first choice in 11 of those 58
- New Relic: first choice in 6 of those 58
- ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Site24x7: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 58
- Checkmk Community: first choice in 1 of those 58
- Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring Pro: first choice in 1 of those 58
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 1 of those 58

**Enterprise**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #6 of 14 at 4%).

- Datadog: first choice in 26 of those 73
- Dynatrace: first choice in 15 of those 73
- Netdata: first choice in 4 of those 73
- New Relic: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Grafana: first choice in 2 of those 73
- SigNoz: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Splunk Observability Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Grafana stack with Loki/Tempo: first choice in 1 of those 73

## Network monitoring and management

**Small business**: 46 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #2 of 12 at 16%).

- Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: first choice in 16 of those 46
- Domotz: first choice in 8 of those 46
- Auvik: first choice in 4 of those 46
- ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 4 of those 46
- Atera: first choice in 1 of those 46
- BackBox: first choice in 1 of those 46
- Checkmk: first choice in 1 of those 46
- Datadog Network Monitoring: first choice in 1 of those 46

**Mid-market**: 56 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #3 of 12 at 17%).

- Auvik: first choice in 14 of those 56
- ManageEngine OpManager: first choice in 8 of those 56
- Datadog Network Monitoring: first choice in 2 of those 56
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 2 of those 56
- Paessler PRTG Network Monitor: first choice in 2 of those 56
- Domotz: first choice in 1 of those 56
- Progress WhatsUp Gold: first choice in 1 of those 56

**Enterprise**: 69 of 84 answers did not name Zabbix (Zabbix is #8 of 12 at 4%).

- Cisco Catalyst Center: first choice in 8 of those 69
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor: first choice in 8 of those 69
- LogicMonitor: first choice in 7 of those 69
- Auvik: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Datadog Network Monitoring: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Kentik: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Ansible: first choice in 2 of those 69

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