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Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability Platforms in AI answers

Data as of Oct 18, 2026Based on 622 AI responsesReviewed by Dimitry Apollonsky

AI summary

Prometheus holds a narrow lead over Datadog, with answers frequently citing it for open-source metrics collection and container tracking. Datadog serves as the usual answer when buyers seek a general commercial infrastructure platform.

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Rank and Mentioned in · since Jul 5

#	Brand	Recommended for	Mentioned in
1	Prometheus 83% Open-source metric scraping and tracking for engineering teams running container environments	Open-source metric scraping and tracking for engineering teams running container environments	83%
2	Datadog 75% Commercial SaaS monitoring consolidating metrics, logs, and traces for cloud-native setups	Commercial SaaS monitoring consolidating metrics, logs, and traces for cloud-native setups	75%
3	New Relic 69% Full-stack observability featuring a generous free ingestion tier for cloud applications	Full-stack observability featuring a generous free ingestion tier for cloud applications	69%
4	Grafana 54% Hyper-customizable dashboards and visualization pairing with diverse time-series backends	Hyper-customizable dashboards and visualization pairing with diverse time-series backends	54%
5	Zabbix 51% Self-hosted infrastructure monitoring tracking physical servers, networks, and virtual machines	Self-hosted infrastructure monitoring tracking physical servers, networks, and virtual machines	51%
6	Dynatrace 49% Automated observability and problem detection for complex hybrid enterprise estates	Automated observability and problem detection for complex hybrid enterprise estates	49%
7	Netdata Cloud 49% Real-time server health and performance monitoring requiring minimal configuration	Real-time server health and performance monitoring requiring minimal configuration	49%
8	Grafana CloudGrafana product line 43% Managed metrics, traces, and logs with hosted Grafana visualization	Managed metrics, traces, and logs with hosted Grafana visualization	43%
9	Grafana OSSGrafana product line 36% Self-managed dashboarding and alerting deployed on local infrastructure	Self-managed dashboarding and alerting deployed on local infrastructure	36%
10	cAdvisor 23% Collecting resource usage and performance metrics directly from running containers	Collecting resource usage and performance metrics directly from running containers	23%
11	Sysdig 20%		20%
12	Uptime Kuma 18%		18%
13	Portainer 15%		15%
14	Grafana LokiGrafana product line 14%		14%
15	LogicMonitor 13%		13%
16	BetterStack 11%		11%
17	Sysdig MonitorSysdig product line 11%		11%
18	OpenTelemetry 10%		10%
19	Dynatrace DavisDynatrace product line 10%		10%
20	Prometheus AlertmanagerPrometheus product line 8%		8%
21	Dozzle 7%		7%
22	Checkmk 6%		6%
23	Grafana AlloyGrafana product line 6%		6%
24	Amazon CloudWatchAmazon product line 5%		5%
25	Uptime Robot 5%		5%
26	Paessler 5%		5%
27	Grafana TempoGrafana product line 5%		5%
28	Jaeger 4%		4%
29	kube-state-metrics 4%		4%
30	OpenTelemetry CollectorOpenTelemetry product line 4%		4%
31	Prometheus Node Exporter 3%		3%
32	PRTG Network MonitorPaessler product line 3%		3%
33	Falco 3%		3%
34	SigNoz 2%		2%
35	Coroot 2%		2%
36	Beszel 2%		2%
37	SlackSalesforce product line 2%		2%
38	SolarWinds 2%		2%
39	ManageEngine ITOMManageengine product line 2%		2%
40	Metoro 2%		2%
41	SolarWinds Network Performance MonitorSolarWinds product line 1%		1%
42	Elastic ObservabilityElastic product line 1%		1%
43	Icinga 1%		1%
44	OpenObserve 1%		1%
45	AWSAmazon product line 1%		1%
46	Sematext 1%		1%
47	Elastic 1%		1%
48	Grafana MimirGrafana product line 1%		1%
49	IBM Instana ObservabilityIBM product line 1%		1%
50	Logz.io 1%		1%
51	Site24x7 1%		1%
52	Splunk Observability CloudCisco product line 1%		1%
53	Dash0 1%		1%
54	ctop 1%		1%
55	Microsoft AzureMicrosoft product line 1%		1%
56	Nagios · nagios.com 1%		1%
57	PagerDuty 1%		1%
58	Kubernetes 1%		1%
59	kube-prometheus-stack 1%		1%
60	NinjaOne 1%		1%
61	Elastic SecurityElastic product line 1%		1%
62	SolarWinds ObservabilitySolarWinds product line 1%		1%
63	Device42 1%		1%
64	Cloudaware 1%		1%
65	Nagios XINagios product line 1%		1%
66	Azure MonitorMicrosoft product line 1%		1%
67	Virtana <1%		<1%
68	Checkmk RawCheckmk product line <1%		<1%
69	SplunkOwned by Cisco <1%		<1%
70	Nagios · nagios.org <1%		<1%
71	K9s <1%		<1%
72	Google Cloud ObservabilityAlphabet product line <1%		<1%
73	Sumo Logic <1%		<1%
74	Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft product line <1%		<1%
75	ElasticsearchElastic product line <1%		<1%
76	LibreNMS <1%		<1%
77	Manageengine <1%		<1%
78	ManageEngine Applications ManagerManageengine product line <1%		<1%
79	Sensaphone <1%		<1%
80	NetAlertX <1%		<1%
81	ScienceLogic <1%		<1%
82	Thanos <1%		<1%
83	watchtowerContainrrr product line <1%		<1%
84	VictoriaMetrics <1%		<1%
85	Glances <1%		<1%
86	Vertiv <1%		<1%
87	Fivenines <1%		<1%
88	Wiz <1%		<1%
89	Televes <1%		<1%
90	Datadog Container MonitoringDatadog product line <1%		<1%
91	Qovery <1%		<1%
92	New Relic Instant ObservabilityNew Relic product line <1%		<1%
93	KubecostApptio product line <1%		<1%
94	Datadog FreeDatadog product line <1%		<1%
95	Google Cloud MonitoringAlphabet product line <1%		<1%
96	Elastic StackElastic product line <1%		<1%
97	Google Cloud PlatformAlphabet product line <1%		<1%
98	ServiceNow <1%		<1%
99	Project CalicoTigera product line <1%		<1%
100	Check’In Infra Smart Monitoring <1%		<1%

Recommendations by AI engine

ChatGPT SearchGoogle AI Mode

Widest split: Grafana Cloud, 62% on ChatGPT Search and 24% on Google AI Mode.

Mentioned in on each AI engine, by brand
Brand	ChatGPT Search	Google AI Mode
Prometheus	79%	86%
Datadog	77%	72%
New Relic	75%	63%
Grafana	62%	46%
Zabbix	36%	67%
Dynatrace	48%	51%
Netdata Cloud	34%	64%
Grafana Cloud	62%	24%
Grafana OSS	30%	42%
cAdvisor	28%	18%

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