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Index Vendors › LogRhythm · September 2026 Edition
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LogRhythm

55Judge labels
1First choices
27Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
2% in SIEM for mid-market buyers
Rank 8 of 49 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 34% of its 29 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In siem · 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 LogRhythm 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
SIEM platformsSecurity operations2%8 of 4934%29criticized challenger
Log managementIT operations and endpoint0%41 of 5933%3under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
SOAR platformsSecurity operations0%46 of 49100%1under 10 labels · led by Tines at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for LogRhythm 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 LogRhythm across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00022
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.1 Fast01023
Mistral Small11114
DeepSeek V4 Flash01225
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash02114
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX03104
MiniMax M2.503115

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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative25 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Microsoft Sentinel or LogRhythm are top choices due to their balance of features, ease of deployment, and support for mid-market teams.” Mistral Small · SIEM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“has historically been popular among mid-market organizations for its balance of features and usability” MiniMax M2.5 · SIEM · direct prompt · alternative
“Choose LogRhythm if: - You are a mid\u2011market organization prioritizing usability” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SIEM · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose LogRhythm if you prefer a vendor that strictly focuses on the mid-market” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SIEM · direct 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.

“user feedback in the results is explicitly negative, with calls to avoid it if you care about "mental sanity and money."” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative
“One user advised to "stay away" from LogRhythm, citing concerns about mental sanity and financial costs.” Llama 4 Maverick · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Called out specifically by practitioners as one to avoid in a well-upvoted r/cybersecurity thread” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SOAR · negative prompt · hard negative
“Users and industry watchers advise staying away from LogRhythm due to significant challenges” Mistral Small · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as LogRhythm, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LogRhythm was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Sentinel43 of 5514Not in the top three
IBM QRadar37 of 550Not in the top three
Splunk Enterprise Security30 of 555Not in the top three
Elastic Security29 of 551Not in the top three
Securonix21 of 550Not in the top three
Exabeam20 of 550Not in the top three
Rapid7 InsightIDR17 of 556Not in the top three
Splunk16 of 550Not in the top three
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM13 of 551Not in the top three
Sumo Logic13 of 550Not 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 LogRhythm. 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 48 of the 55 answers that named LogRhythm and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

underdefense.com30
gartner.com21
paloaltonetworks.com21
reddit.com18
exabeam.com17
siemtune.com13
expertinsights.com12
subrosacyber.com11
xoomar.com10
comparitech.com9

162 of the 162 domain citations in answers naming LogRhythm came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as LogRhythm

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as LogRhythm; a claim can dispute any of them.
LogRhythm NextGen SIEM 2LogRhythm Next-Gen SIEM 1
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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 logrhythm.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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