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1 category · Named, not ranked

Grafana Stack

11Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Grafana Stack was named 2 times in APM, where New Relic led with 54%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market31 of 70

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 58

under the label threshold

In apm · 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 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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	31 of 70	0%	2	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 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 Grafana Stack across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
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	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.

“allows you to build a powerful, free-to-use APM system. This requires significant setup effort but offers maximum flexibility.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana Stack, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana Stack was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic9 of 112Not in the top three

Datadog8 of 112Not in the top three

Dynatrace7 of 111Not in the top three

Elastic APM4 of 110Not in the top three

OpenObserve4 of 110Not in the top three

SigNoz3 of 112Not in the top three

AppDynamics3 of 111Not in the top three

Prometheus2 of 110Not in the top three

Scout APM2 of 110Not in the top three

Site24x72 of 110Not 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 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 10 of the 11 answers that named Grafana Stack and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai6

dev.to4

instatus.com4

newrelic.com4

rollbar.com4

ardura.consulting3

atatus.com3

cubeapm.com3

g2.com3

manageengine.com3

Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Grafana Stack came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools6

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools4

newrelic.com/blog/apm/application-performance-monitoring-tools4

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools4

ardura.consulting/blog/apm-tools-comparison-20263

dev.to/openobserve/top-10-apm-tools-in-2026-a-complete-comparison-guide-57pi3

newrelic.com/blog/observability/enterprise-apm3

perfinsight.dev/en/blog/apm-tools-comparison3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Grafana Stack

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

The "Grafana Stack" 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Grafana Stack's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Grafana Stack, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at grafana.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.