7 categories · RankedGrafana Cloud
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 8% | 4 of 124 | 0% | 17 | accepted challenger | |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 5% | 6 of 110 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% | |
| Log management | IT operations and endpoint | 4% | 6 of 73 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AIOps platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 4% | 9 of 93 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17% | |
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 8 of 66 | 0% | 26 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Error and crash monitoring | Developer platform | 0% | 18 of 42 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 76% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Website and synthetic monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 32 of 67 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by UptimeRobot at 24% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Grafana Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you want zero cost and are comfortable with setup and maintenance, Grafana, SigNoz, or OpenObserve are excellent choices.” Mistral Small · Data observability · budget prompt · first choice
“Grafana Cloud offers better value if you're comfortable with the open-source ecosystem, with a free plan and ratings of 4.5 on G2” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Data observability · budget prompt · first choice
“Grafana Cloud - Offers a free tier at $0, with paid plans starting at $19/month plus usage-based pricing.” MiniMax M2.5 · AIOps · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have 2–3 developers and want a modern SaaS stack: Go with Grafana Cloud's Free Tier.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.
“Grafana Cloud has a free tier, but it's an observability platform—not a direct replacement for a dedicated AIOps alert-correlation tool” GPT-6 Luna · AIOps · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Grafana Cloud, over the 196 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 174 of the 196 answers that named Grafana Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
459 of the 506 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Cloud came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
grafana.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Grafana Cloud takes 8% of first choices and OpenTelemetry Collector takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“grafana cloud”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 40 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 84,520 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 23,340 · 1,526 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 30,353
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 36 across its categories
- Named in
- 196 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 174 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,964 | 13 | 2026-09-14 | Observability, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 537 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 175 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 140 | undated | |||
| News or press | 79 | 5 | 2026-08-01 | Observability | |
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 1 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2021-04-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations blog
- 2026-09-10Synthetic monitoring labels update blog
- 2026-09-09How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud blog
- 2026-08-27Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier blog
- 2026-08-27How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability blog
- 2026-08-25The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications blog
Events in person
- March 5, 2026ObservabilityCON on the Road: TorontoDelta Hotels Toronto, Toronto, Canada · hosted
As the event pages on grafana.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
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Every page grafana.com 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name observability (13); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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.
Names read as Grafana Cloud
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The company
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The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.
- For
- customers
- Price stated
- The Free Forever plan; Plans to suit every scale grafana.com
- Starting price
- 0 grafana.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan grafana.com
- Certifications
- FEDRAMP CompliantNATSEC100 CertifiedPCI DSS CompliantA-LIGN CertifiedAICPA SOC Type II VerifiedGDPR CompliantSOC 2ISO/IEC 27001
- Customers named
- BlackRockPegasystemsLovableLATAM AirlinesDelivery HeroASOSSailpointMux
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Grafana Cloud's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: grafana.com, grafana.com/pricing, trust.grafana.com, grafana.com/products/cloud, grafana.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Grafana Cloud 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 Grafana Cloud, 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.