Every category where a model named Grafana Cloud 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	4%	4 of 70	0%	24	accepted challenger
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	4%	9 of 59	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	35 of 44	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Grafana Cloud 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 Grafana Cloud 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	3	0	5
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	2	0	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

Direct10 labelsNone

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative18 labelsNone

Budget-constrained18 labels4

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative17 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 8 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.

“Go with New Relic's free tier (if you have only 1 admin) or Grafana Cloud (if you have up to 3 users and prefer open standards)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · APM · budget prompt · first choice

“Better Stack or Grafana Cloud represents the healthiest intersection of developer adoption” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Logs · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Favor OpenTelemetry-native tools (e.g., Grafana Cloud, Elastic APM) to avoid vendor lock-in” Grok 4.1 Fast · APM · negative prompt · first choice

“Best overall for limited budget and flexibility: Grafana Cloud” GPT-5.4 mini · APM · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“But it's more of a full observability platform than a pure error tracker.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Error monitoring · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana Cloud, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic53 of 8115Not in the top three

Datadog49 of 8110Not in the top three

Dynatrace48 of 817Not in the top three

SigNoz30 of 814Not in the top three

AppDynamics26 of 810Not in the top three

Sentry21 of 813Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management21 of 812Not in the top three

Better Stack19 of 818Not in the top three

Splunk18 of 811Not in the top three

Elastic APM14 of 810Not 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 Grafana Cloud. 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 61 of the 81 answers that named Grafana Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai29

cubeapm.com28

newrelic.com24

toolradar.com23

g2.com18

reveillesoftware.com18

instatus.com16

middleware.io16

rollbar.com16

motadata.com15

203 of the 203 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

reveillesoftware.com/blog/blog/14-best-application-performance-monitoring-apm-tools-202418

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools17

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools16

ardura.consulting/blog/apm-tools-comparison-202614

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools14

cubeapm.com/blog/top-apm-tools-features-pricing-usecases13

newrelic.com/blog/apm/application-performance-monitoring-tools13

toolradar.com/guides/best-application-monitoring-tools11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Grafana Cloud

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

Grafana Cloud (Loki) 1Grafana Cloud / Prometheus 1

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