When asked for the best application performance monitoring tool, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Datadog was named most often, followed by New Relic and Dynatrace. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Datadog, New Relic.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| New Relic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Dynatrace | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Sentry | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| AppDynamics | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| UptimeRobot | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: New Relic, Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace.
Selecting the best application performance monitoring (APM) tool for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, technical requirements, ease of use, and the specific needs of the business.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: New Relic, Datadog.
For a small business, the strongest overall choice is usually New Relic or Site24x7, depending on whether you want deeper application observability or lower-cost, broader monitoring.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Sentry, UptimeRobot.
For most small businesses, New Relic's free tier or Sentry covers 80% of needs without significant cost.
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: New Relic, Sentry, Datadog.
Here are the most practical options for small businesses in 2025, ranked by value:
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, UptimeRobot.
There's no single "best" APM tool — the right choice depends on your stack, budget, and how much technical depth you want.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace.
Choosing the best application performance monitoring (APM) tool for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, ease of use, scalability, and specific needs.
The questions asked
- What is the best application performance monitoring tool for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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