Every category where a model named Grafana Loki 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	16%	2 of 59	7%	44	accepted challenger
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	13 of 63	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	24 of 65	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	41 of 70	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Grafana Loki 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 Loki 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	1	2	1	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	1	1	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	2	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	3	1	0	5
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	7	0	1	10
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	5	2	0	7
Kimi K2	2	0	3	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	2	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	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

Direct19 labels2

Paraphrase19 labels4

Comparative24 labelsNone

Budget-constrained33 labels10

Scale-constrained16 labels2

Negative20 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative131 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 20 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.

“strongly consider an OpenTelemetry-native, cost-predictable option (Loki with Grafana, or SigNoz/OpenObserve)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · scale prompt · first choice

“I'd suggest evaluating Grafana Loki (if cost-conscious and comfortable with DevOps)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Logs · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Small team / startup / mostly Kubernetes or microservices: Grafana Loki” GPT-5.4 mini · Logs · budget prompt · first choice

“My top recommendation: Grafana Loki (or SigNoz) for most mid-sized teams” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · paraphrase 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.

“Avoid Loki if your primary use case is unstructured full-text search across massive amounts of log data.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Loki if your developers log high-cardinality identifiers or you need deep ad-hoc text search.” Kimi K2 · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“This can make ad-hoc, deep text queries incredibly slow.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana Loki, over the 130 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana Loki was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datadog Log Management97 of 13014Compare →

Splunk88 of 13014Not in the top three

Elastic Stack79 of 1303Not in the top three

Better Stack53 of 13020Not in the top three

Graylog48 of 1302Compare →

SolarWinds Papertrail41 of 13011Not in the top three

OpenObserve37 of 1303Not in the top three

New Relic Logs36 of 1304Not in the top three

Sumo Logic36 of 1302Not in the top three

SigNoz31 of 1303Not 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 Loki. 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 98 of the 130 answers that named Grafana Loki and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai61

toolradar.com58

cribl.io38

middleware.io38

cubeapm.com34

dash0.com34

subrupt.com32

parseable.com31

signoz.io30

dupple.com29

385 of the 385 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Loki came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

openobserve.ai/blog/log-management-tools45

toolradar.com/guides/best-log-management-tools36

subrupt.com/best/log-management32

dash0.com/comparisons/best-log-management-tools29

dupple.com/learn/best-log-management-tools27

cubeapm.com/blog/top-log-management-tools26

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-10-log-collection-and-analysis-platforms25

middleware.io/blog/log-management-tools21

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Grafana Loki

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

Loki 12Grafana + Prometheus/Loki/Tempo 1Grafana Loki (via Grafana Cloud) 1Grafana Loki Cloud 1Loki/Grafana 1Self-hosted Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Tempo 1

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