Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 37 of 41, unchanged
2 categories · RankedChronosphere
45Judge labels
1First choices
4Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Observability for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Chronosphere →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business43 of 47
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 80
2%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise12 of 57
0%21 labels
accepted challenger
In observability · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Chronosphere for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 11 of 80 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 0% | 66 of 110 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Chronosphere held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Observability · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 16 → 11 of 76
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 12 of 56
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 16 → 11 of 80 |
| Data observability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 66 of 110, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Chronosphere across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Chronosphere across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct10 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative19 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained4 labels1
Negative9 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Start POCs with Datadog or Dynatrace (speed) AND Grafana Cloud or Chronosphere (cost control).” Kimi K2 · Observability · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Chronosphere if cost governance and cloud-native architectures are top priorities” Kimi K2 · Observability · comparative prompt · alternative
“Kubernetes/cloud-native heavy: Grafana + Prometheus stack or Chronosphere” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Observability · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Less comprehensive than Datadog or Dynatrace out of the box.” MiniMax M2.5 · Observability · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chronosphere, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chronosphere was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chronosphere, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chronosphere was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Chronosphere. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 43 of the 45 answers that named Chronosphere and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
newrelic.com24
research.oz.spotlightar.com22
metoro.io19
motadata.com16
uptrace.dev16
cubeapm.com15
datamation.com13
splunk.com11
viasocket.com11
chronosphere.ioYour site10
147 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming Chronosphere came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
chronosphere.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Chronosphere takes 2% of first choices and Grafana takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
chronosphere.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Chronosphere takes 2% of first choices and Grafana takes 27%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “observability platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “observability platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“chronosphere”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 164 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,732 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,144 · 77 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,797
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 80 in observability
Segment leader
27%
Grafana
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 45 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 43 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on chronosphere.io
1,656
subdomains included
Content
636
counted in the table below
Documentation
695
Product · Integration
25 · 5
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 437 | 12 | 2026-08-03 | Observability, Logs | |
| Conference or event | 65 | 10 | 2026-08-03 | ||
| News or press | 33 | 0 | 2025-11-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 25 | 0 | 2025-01-27 | ||
| Comparison | 22 | 3 | 2026-08-03 | APM | |
| Blog | 14 | 3 | 2026-07-15 | ||
| Podcast or video | 14 | 0 | 2024-09-13 | ||
| Case study | 12 | 0 | 2026-02-06 | ||
| Report or ebook | 10 | 2 | 2026-08-03 | Observability | |
| Template or tool | 4 | 0 | 2025-02-27 | Observability |
Most recent
- 2026-08-03Migrating to a datadog alternative comparison
- 2026-08-03Reflections on five years of start up growth glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-033 key differences of open source observability tools vs proprietary observability tools comparison
- 2026-08-03Beyond buy vs build observability tool adoption rate is key comparison
- 2026-08-03Workshop using advanced prometheus queries conference or event
- 2026-08-03Workshop exploring basic prometheus queries conference or event
Events in person
Upcoming
- November 9, 2026 to November 12, 2026Tradeshow: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City · exhibits
Last twelve months
- October 22, 2026 to October 23, 2026Tradeshow: MCPCon + AGNTCon 2026San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, US · attended
- September 2, 2026Meetup: Cloud Native London 2026Fleet Place House | 2 Fleet Pl EC4M 7RF, London, London · hybrid · sponsored
- August 5, 2026Meetup: Cloud Native London 2026Fleet Place House | 2 Fleet Pl EC4M 7RF, London · hybrid · sponsored
- December 11, 2025Live Session: The Distraction Tax: How Operational Noise Is Quietly Killing InnovationThe Venetian, Las Vegas · spoke
- December 9, 2025 to December 11, 2025Tradeshow: Gartner IOCs North America 2025The Venetian, Las Vegas · spoke
As the event pages on chronosphere.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page chronosphere.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Chronosphere
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The company
Chronosphere is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Chronosphere is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Observability Built for Control; the world’s most reliable observability platform for microservices and containers.
- For
- teams
- Customers named
- DoordashAbnormal SecurityAstronomerAffirmBluecoreFintech PlatformGlobal Satellite Communication CompanyCyberuptive
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Chronosphere's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: chronosphere.io, trust.chronosphere.io, chronosphere.io/platform, chronosphere.io/case-studies, chronosphere.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Chronosphere's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Chronosphere, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Chronosphere by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Chronosphere is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Chronosphere, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.