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Monitoring apps and infrastructure: APM, logs, traces. Evaluated by Gartner Magic Quadrant, GigaOm Radar and The Forrester Wave, 2020 to 2026: 12 reports, 12 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
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Observability Platforms
Gartner Magic Quadrant · 7 editions, 2020 to 2026
2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
Changes since 2025
Coralogix · New Leader
ScienceLogic · New Leader
New Relic · No longer a Leader
Splunk · No longer a Leader
Honeycomb · New in Visionaries
Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
Changes since 2024
IBM · New Leader
Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
Changes since 2023
Chronosphere · New Leader
Datadog · New Leader
Elastic · New Leader
Grafana Labs · New Leader
Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability
Changes since 2022
Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability
Changes since 2021
Cisco AppDynamics · No longer a Leader
Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
Changes since 2020
Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
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LeadersChallengersVisionariesNiche Players· not placed
Cloud Observability
GigaOm Radar · 3 editions, 2024 to 2026
GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability
No change in the Leaders since 2025.GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability
No change in the Leaders since 2024.GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability
AIOps Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 2 editions, 2022 to 2025
The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025
No change in the Leaders since 2022.The Forrester Wave: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.