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Index Vendors › ManageEngine Log360 · September 2026 Edition
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ManageEngine Log360

57Judge labels
10First choices
7Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in SIEM for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 49 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 16 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 ManageEngine Log360 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 operations4%5 of 496%16accepted challenger
SOAR platformsSecurity operations2%14 of 4950%4under 10 labels · led by Tines at 47%
Log managementIT operations and endpoint0%18 of 5914%7under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
Threat intelligence platformsSecurity operations0%115 of 128100%1under 10 labels · led by NordStellar at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine Log360 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 ManageEngine Log360 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511103
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar22217
Grok 4.1 Fast05027
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick02002
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.501012

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
Direct18 labels2
Paraphrase10 labels5
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained17 labels3
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 10 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.

“Log360 combines SIEM, user behavior analytics, and security orchestration and is best for cost-conscious midsize enterprises.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SIEM · direct prompt · first choice
“ManageEngine Log360 as the best general-purpose mid-market SIEM when Microsoft dependency is not the deciding factor” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the strongest low-cost choice is usually ManageEngine Log360” Perplexity Sonar · SOAR · budget prompt · first choice
“ManageEngine Log360 is a budget-friendly option that is suitable for mid-market teams needing SIEM with DLP and CASB capabilities” Llama 4 Maverick · 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.

“Reviewers note UI feels dated and inconsistent across modules, plus performance slowdowns under high log volumes.” MiniMax M2.5 · SOAR · negative prompt · soft negative
“Advanced detection capabilities are not as deep as Rapid7 or Sentinel; limited third-party integrations” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SIEM · direct prompt · soft negative
“places these as Niche Players: limited vision/execution for broad log management, weaker in scalability” Grok 4.1 Fast · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative
“more of an integrated SIEM/UEBA platform than a pure threat intelligence platform” Perplexity Sonar · Threat intel · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine Log360, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Log360 was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Sentinel37 of 579Not in the top three
Blumira19 of 578Not in the top three
Wazuh17 of 578Not in the top three
Splunk16 of 570Not in the top three
Rapid7 InsightIDR13 of 577Not in the top three
Elastic Security12 of 570Not in the top three
Splunk Enterprise Security11 of 571Not in the top three
Graylog11 of 570Not in the top three
Tines10 of 574Not in the top three
IBM QRadar10 of 570Not 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 ManageEngine Log360. 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 55 of the 57 answers that named ManageEngine Log360 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com30
manageengine.comYour site25
reddit.com25
comparitech.com23
underdefense.com23
expertinsights.com21
gartner.com18
aimultiple.com13
capterra.com12
exabeam.com12

177 of the 202 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Log360 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ManageEngine Log360

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ManageEngine Log360; a claim can dispute any of them.
Log360 2Log360 (ManageEngine) 1
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