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Index › Vendors › Grafana + Prometheus · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Grafana + Prometheus

14Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Grafana + Prometheus was named 7 times in Infra monitoring and 2 other categories, where Site24x7 led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market21 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 of 66

under the label threshold

In infra monitoring · 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 Grafana + Prometheus 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
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 65	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	64 of 70	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	22 of 63	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Open source, no vendor lock-in” Kimi K2 · Observability · negative prompt · first choice

“Want open-source control, great dashboards, and no lock-in? → Grafana” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Observability · comparative prompt · alternative

“if you have a strong DevOps team and prefer open-source flexibility” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Another free, open-source solution that can be self-hosted” Mistral Small · APM · budget 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.

“these can dramatically reduce software cost, but they require more engineering effort to run and maintain” Perplexity Sonar · APM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana + Prometheus, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana + Prometheus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic13 of 146Not in the top three

Datadog12 of 142Not in the top three

SigNoz8 of 141Not in the top three

Dynatrace7 of 142Not in the top three

Site24x76 of 141Not in the top three

Scout APM4 of 142Not in the top three

OpenObserve4 of 140Not in the top three

Sentry3 of 141Not in the top three

Honeycomb3 of 140Not in the top three

Paessler PRTG3 of 140Not 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 + Prometheus. 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 13 of the 14 answers that named Grafana + Prometheus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

drizz.dev6

gartner.com6

openobserve.ai6

cubeapm.com5

instatus.com5

newrelic.com5

g2.com4

kinsta.com4

manageengine.com4

motadata.com4

Forty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Grafana + Prometheus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

drizz.dev/post/apm-tools6

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools4

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools4

kinsta.com/blog/apm-tools4

manageengine.com/it-operations-management/application-observability/apm-tools-comparison.h4

reveillesoftware.com/blog/blog/14-best-application-performance-monitoring-apm-tools-20244

scoutapm.com/blog/best-apm-for-small-teams-20264

cubeapm.com/blog/top-apm-tools-features-pricing-usecases3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Grafana + Prometheus

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

Grafana/Prometheus 2Grafana + Prometheus (Grafana Labs) 1Grafana + Prometheus/Loki/Tempo 1

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