Every category where a model named Elastic APM 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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	14 of 70	0%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Elastic APM yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Elastic APM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	2

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative8 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Balanced Commercial: Grafana Cloud (predictable, OTel), Elastic APM (self-hostable)” Grok 4.1 Fast · APM · negative prompt · first choice

“Elastic APM is ideal for teams already using the Elastic Stack, or those who need an on-prem, customizable APM solution” Claude Haiku 4.5 · APM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Elastic APM (self-hosted) is free forever with all features, though it requires infrastructure management” MiniMax M2.5 · APM · budget prompt · alternative

“Consider open-source alternatives like Grafana Cloud, Elastic APM, or SigNoz which can be more cost-effective” MiniMax M2.5 · APM · negative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Elastic APM, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Elastic APM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic37 of 3710Not in the top three

Dynatrace31 of 375Not in the top three

Datadog29 of 377Not in the top three

AppDynamics23 of 370Not in the top three

Grafana Cloud14 of 371Not in the top three

SigNoz13 of 373Not in the top three

Sentry11 of 370Not in the top three

IBM Instana8 of 371Not in the top three

OpenObserve7 of 372Not in the top three

Jaeger5 of 370Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Elastic APM. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 31 of the 37 answers that named Elastic APM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

newrelic.com16

rollbar.com14

cubeapm.com13

openobserve.ai13

instatus.com11

reveillesoftware.com10

g2.com9

toolradar.com9

manageengine.com8

ardura.consulting7

110 of the 110 domain citations in answers naming Elastic APM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools14

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools13

cubeapm.com/blog/top-apm-tools-features-pricing-usecases11

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools11

reveillesoftware.com/blog/blog/14-best-application-performance-monitoring-apm-tools-202410

newrelic.com/blog/apm/application-performance-monitoring-tools9

toolradar.com/guides/best-application-monitoring-tools9

ardura.consulting/blog/apm-tools-comparison-20267

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Elastic APM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Elastic APM; a claim can dispute any of them.

Elastic APM (Self-Hosted) 1

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