Index › Vendors › ELK Stack · September 2026 Edition

ELK · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

ELK Stack

9Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ELK Stack was named 3 times in SIEM and 1 other category, where Microsoft Sentinel led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business62 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market39 of 49

under the label threshold

Enterprise41 of 49

under the label threshold

In siem · 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 ELK 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
SIEM platforms	Security operations	0%	39 of 49	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	65 of 78	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Relying solely on standard Log Management tools (like basic setups of Splunk, Datadog, or ELK stack) for security” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Container security · negative prompt · soft negative

“technically excellent but carry a massive hidden cost: Engineering Labor” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ELK Stack, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ELK Stack was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wazuh7 of 91Not in the top three

Microsoft Sentinel6 of 91Not in the top three

IBM QRadar6 of 90Not in the top three

Splunk6 of 90Not in the top three

Blumira5 of 91Not in the top three

Graylog4 of 90Not in the top three

Logpoint2 of 91Not in the top three

Huntress2 of 90Not in the top three

LogRhythm2 of 90Not in the top three

ManageEngine Log3602 of 90Not 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 ELK 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 5 of the 9 answers that named ELK Stack and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com4

blogs.fluencysecurity.com2

blumira.com2

capterra.com2

comparitech.com2

cribl.io2

nohack.net2

opensiem-deployer.com2

siemcostcalculator.com2

trustradius.com2

No domain is on file for ELK Stack, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b80zza/best_siem_solution_for_small_company3

blogs.fluencysecurity.com/siem-for-smbs2

cribl.io/blog/understanding-siem-costs2

nohack.net/best-siem-tools-small-businesses-20262

opensiem-deployer.com/blog/siem-cost-startup-comparison2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1g47k4f/siem_hunt_deal_killers_and_reasons_to_avoid2

siemcostcalculator.com/siem-cost-by-size2

siemcostcalculator.com/1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ELK Stack

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

ELK stack 1

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