Every category where a model named Elastic Stack 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
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	13 of 59	35%	55	criticized challenger
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 63	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	29 of 44	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	50 of 65	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Elastic Stack 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 Stack across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	5	3	9
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	2	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2	5	9
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	2	2	8
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	2	2	8
Kimi K2	0	1	2	2	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	2	2	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	0	2	5

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

Direct22 labels2

Paraphrase25 labels1

Comparative23 labelsNone

Budget-constrained21 labels2

Scale-constrained35 labelsNone

Negative36 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.

“If you have a Sysadmin/DevOps engineer: Choose ELK Stack or Graylog (Self-hosted).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · budget prompt · first choice

“The "Specialist" Approach (Elastic Cloud / Datadog Logs Only): Pros: Standardized technology, good balance of features and cost.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · scale prompt · alternative

“Team wants full control... | Elastic Stack (self-hosted) or Elastic Cloud | Open-source free, highly flexible, strong Kibana UI” MiniMax M2.5 · Logs · comparative prompt · alternative

“Graylog or ELK Stack (open-source, unlimited volume if you manage it; great for cost control but adds engineering time)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Logs · paraphrase 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.

“The "Operational Burdens" (Avoid unless you have expertise)... you may find the cluster constantly crashing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid self-hosted ELK if you lack dedicated platform engineers to babysit JVM clusters.” Kimi K2 · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid self-hosting ELK/OpenSearch if you are on a tight budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Logs · budget prompt · hard negative

“the extreme operational overhead of a self-hosted ELK stack” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Logs · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Elastic Stack, over the 151 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Elastic Stack was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Splunk120 of 15119Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management117 of 15114Not in the top three

Grafana Loki79 of 15113Not in the top three

Graylog59 of 1514Not in the top three

New Relic Logs49 of 1514Not in the top three

Sumo Logic48 of 1513Not in the top three

Better Stack47 of 15121Not in the top three

SolarWinds Papertrail36 of 1519Not in the top three

OpenObserve29 of 1511Not in the top three

Dynatrace29 of 1510Not 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 Stack. 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 100 of the 151 answers that named Elastic Stack and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai58

toolradar.com49

cribl.io46

middleware.io44

dash0.com39

signoz.io38

parseable.com33

cubeapm.com32

exabeam.com28

logz.io28

395 of the 395 domain citations in answers naming Elastic Stack came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

openobserve.ai/blog/log-management-tools40

dash0.com/comparisons/best-log-management-tools33

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-10-log-collection-and-analysis-platforms32

toolradar.com/guides/best-log-management-tools32

signoz.io/blog/best-log-management-tools30

exabeam.com/explainers/log-management/top-6-log-management-tools-and-how-to-choose26

cubeapm.com/blog/top-log-management-tools25

grepr.ai/blog/best-log-management-tools-in-2026-a-realists-buying-guide25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Elastic Stack

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

Elastic 8ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) 5Elastic Cloud 5Elastic Stack (ELK) 5ELK 4ELK Stack 4ELK stack 2Elastic (ELK) 2ELK / Elastic 1ELK Stack (Elastic) 1ELK Stack (Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana) 1ELK Stack (Elasticsearch) 1ELK Stack (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) 1ELK Stack / Elastic Cloud 1ELK Stack / Graylog 1ELK stack (ElasticSearch, LogStash, Kibana) 1ELK/Elastic Stack 1ELK/OpenSearch 1Elastic (ELK Stack) 1Elastic (ELK Stack: Elasticsearch + Kibana) 1Elastic / ELK Stack 1Elastic Stack (ELK / OpenSearch) 1Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) 1Elastic/ELK Stack 1

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