Who each engine recommends
Position of every brand named in the latest run.
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | AI Mode | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DatadogTop pick | #1 | #1 | #1 | |
| Dynatrace | #3 | #2 | #2 | |
| Splunk | #2 | #3 | #8 | |
| New Relic | #6 | #8 | #7 | |
| Grafana | — | #7 | #3 | |
| AppDynamics | #4 | — | — | |
| Loki | — | — | #4 | |
| SolarWinds Observability | — | #4 | — | |
| IBM Instana | #5 | — | — | |
| Sumo Logic | — | #5 | — | |
| Tempo | — | — | #5 | |
| Mimir | — | — | #6 | |
| OpenObserve | — | #6 | — | |
| Middleware | — | #9 | — |
Responses
What each engine answered, and how the shortlist moved.
Several observability platforms offer free trials. The strongest options include: Observability platforms with free trials Platform Free trial Highlights ------------------------ Datadog 14 days Metrics, logs, APM, distributed tracing Splunk Observability Cloud 14 days Infrastructure monitoring, APM, RUM Dynatrace 15 days Full-stack monitoring, AI-powered analytics AppDynamics 30 days Application performance monitoring IBM Instana 14 days Automated application and infrastructure monitoring…
- Datadog — Start Datadog free trial.
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- AppDynamics
- IBM Instana
- New Relic — New Relic offers a free tier rather than just a temporary trial:.
Several observability platforms offer free trials, including:
- Datadog — Datadog: 14-day free trial.
- Dynatrace — Dynatrace: 15-day free trial.
- Splunk — Splunk Observability Cloud: 14-day free trial.
- SolarWinds Observability — SolarWinds Observability: 30-day free trial.
- Sumo Logic — Sumo Logic: 30-day free trial.
- OpenObserve — OpenObserve Cloud: 14-day free trial with no credit card required.
- Grafana — For an ongoing free option rather than a time-limited trial, Grafana Cloud and New Relic offer permanent free tiers within usage limits.
- New Relic — For an ongoing free option rather than a time-limited trial, Grafana Cloud and New Relic offer permanent free tiers within usage limits.
Most major full-stack observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platforms offer free trials or permanent free tiers.
- Datadog — Top observability platforms offering free trials or free evaluation options: Datadog : Offers a 14-day free Datadog trial with full access to aggregate metrics, traces, and logs across your stack (no credit card…
- Dynatrace — Dynatrace : Provides a Free Dynatrace Trial allowing you to test their AI-powered unified observability and security platform with your own data, plus a sandbox playground option.
- Grafana — Grafana Cloud : Offers a permanent free tier alongside managed trials for exploring metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
- Loki — Grafana Cloud : Offers a permanent free tier alongside managed trials for exploring metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
- Tempo — Grafana Cloud : Offers a permanent free tier alongside managed trials for exploring metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
- Mimir — Grafana Cloud : Offers a permanent free tier alongside managed trials for exploring metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
- New Relic — New Relic : Provides sign-ups with access to platform features and a generous permanent free tier allowance (including data ingest per month).
- Splunk — Splunk Observability Cloud : Offers evaluation trials to test real-time, AI-driven streaming analytics and infrastructure monitoring.
Citations
Sources the engines cited for this prompt.
| Source | Type | Citations | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| newrelic.com | Brand site · New Relic | 3 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| datadoghq.com | Brand site · Datadog | 2 | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode |
| g2.com | Review site | 2 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| splunk.com | Brand site · Splunk | 2 | ChatGPT, Perplexity |
| cisco.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| dynatrace.com | Brand site · Dynatrace | 1 | Google AI Mode |
| middleware.io | Brand site · Middleware | 1 | Perplexity |
| motadata.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| posthog.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| softwareadvice.com | Review site | 1 | Perplexity |
| sourceforge.net | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| techtarget.com | Web | 1 | Perplexity |
| trustradius.com | Review site | 1 | Google AI Mode |