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Datadog vs New Relic: which one does AI recommend?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 10 questions buyers ask about application monitoring and observability — 30 answers in total — and counted who got named. Datadog is named in 19 of 30 answers (63%); New Relic in 17 (57%).

Datadog

63%

named in 19 of 30 answers

ChatGPT: named in 90% of answers
Gemini: named in 20% of answers
Perplexity: named in 80% of answers

New Relic

57%

named in 17 of 30 answers

How they rank against everyone else

Grafana Cloud
73%
Datadog
63%
New Relic
57%
Sentry
53%
Dynatrace
33%
Prometheus
27%
Better Stack
23%
Honeycomb
23%

Where does your product land?

Same 10 questions, your product, about a minute. No account.

Counts are mentions in AI answers, not endorsements, measured 2026-09-20. Nobody pays to appear.