Small business▲+11Since September 2026: 4% → 15%, +11 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 4% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 0 pointsRank 6 → 2 of 53
3 categories · RankedGraylog
141Judge labels
25First choices
24Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
26% in Logs for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 41 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Graylog →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 56
13%48 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 73
26%41 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 66
4%23 labels
accepted challenger
In logs · 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 Graylog 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Log management | IT operations and endpoint | 26% | 2 of 73 | 10% | 41 | accepted challenger | ▲+16Since September 2026: 10% → 26%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| SIEM platforms | Security operations | 0% | 21 of 61 | 27% | 11 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Error and crash monitoring | Developer platform | 0% | 25 of 42 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 76% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Graylog moved past the floor in one of three categories: Logs, +16 points to 26%. It held within the floor in the other two.
Best category · Logs · by segment
Mid-market▲+16Since September 2026: 10% → 26%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
26%from 10% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 66
Enterprise▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 17 → 4 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logs | 10% | 26% | ▲+16Since September 2026: 10% → 26%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 3 → 2 of 73 |
| SIEM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 21 of 61 |
| Error monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 25 of 42, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Graylog across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Graylog across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 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
Direct21 labels8
Paraphrase23 labels8
Comparative24 labelsNone
Budget-constrained36 labels9
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative25 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative141 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 25 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.
“Graylog and Datadog are the top recommendations due to their scalability, feature sets, and suitability for complex environments” Mistral Small · Logs · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Graylog — it hits the sweet spot of enterprise capability, predictable pricing, and manageable complexity” Kimi K2 · Logs · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“self-hosting Graylog Open can be significantly cheaper than commercial SaaS offerings, especially for large log volumes” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Logs · budget prompt · first choice
“Graylog Open and Grafana Loki are the top contenders since they're truly free with no ingestion limits” MiniMax M2.5 · Logs · 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.
“Graylog has limited scalability and is not suitable for large-scale log management” Llama 4 Maverick · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative
“do not self-host (e.g., do not try to host Graylog or ELK yourself)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · direct prompt · hard negative
“setup, backend troubleshooting, and running a scalable cluster can be burdensome, and that it may be "overkill and financially unsustainable"” Perplexity Sonar · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative
“such as Wazuh or Graylog with custom rules) are generally not recommended unless you have at least two dedicated SIEM engineers on staff” Mistral Small · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Graylog, over the 139 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Graylog was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Graylog, over the 139 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Graylog was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Graylog. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 127 of the 139 answers that named Graylog and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cribl.io64
middleware.io63
openobserve.ai62
us.fitgap.com45
expertinsights.com38
dupple.com36
dash0.com35
guideflow.com35
dnsstuff.com34
process.st33
445 of the 445 domain citations in answers naming Graylog came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
graylog.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Graylog takes 26% of first choices and Datadog Log Management takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
graylog.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Graylog takes 26% of first choices and Datadog Log Management takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “log management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “log management platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“graylog”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 146 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 12,269 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,017 · 114 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,448
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
26%
rank 2 of 73 in logs
Segment leader
28%
Datadog Log Management
- First choices
- 25 across its categories
- Named in
- 139 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 127 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
ShowHideAddresses on graylog.org
10,000
subdomains included
Content
112
counted in the table below
Documentation
9,878
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 61 | 0 | 2019-04-25 | ||
| Comparison | 37 | 0 | 2021-01-07 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | 0 | 2021-07-30 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2021-09-09 | ||
| Podcast or video | 3 | 0 | 2021-09-27 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2021-06-10 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2017-07-25 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2018-01-14 |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page graylog.org 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. 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 Graylog
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Graylog; a claim can dispute any of them.
Graylog Open 5Graylog (Open Version) 1
Follow Graylog
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Graylog is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Graylog is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- SIEM & Enterprise Log Management
- For
- Built for lean teams with enterprise challenges; people covering security, IT, and audit
- Free plan or trial
- Start free graylog.org
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Graylog's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: graylog.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Graylog'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 Graylog, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Graylog by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Graylog 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 Graylog, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Graylog is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Graylog is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideGraylog is among the products AI models recommend first in Log management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.