Every category where a model named OpenObserve 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
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	8%	5 of 59	5%	22	accepted challenger
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	2%	8 of 70	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	2%	7 of 63	0%	13	accepted challenger
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	0%	34 of 63	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for OpenObserve 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 OpenObserve 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	1	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	3	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	3	0	7
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	1	4	2	0	7
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	5	0	7
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

Direct13 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative18 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels5

Scale-constrained12 labels2

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative96 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 9 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.

“OpenObserve: It is a cost-efficient option that supports SQL queries and has a self-hosted deployment option.” Llama 4 Maverick · Logs · budget prompt · first choice

“strongly consider an OpenTelemetry-native, cost-predictable option (Loki with Grafana, or SigNoz/OpenObserve)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · scale prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Middleware or OpenObserve would be the sweet spot” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Observability · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“OpenObserve self-hosted is the winner if you can run your own infrastructure” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.

“relatively new and "not as battle tested" as longer-standing tools” Perplexity Sonar · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OpenObserve, over the 96 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OpenObserve was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic44 of 9615Not in the top three

SigNoz42 of 968Not in the top three

Datadog41 of 967Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management37 of 967Not in the top three

Grafana Loki37 of 967Not in the top three

Splunk35 of 966Not in the top three

Better Stack29 of 9610Not in the top three

Elastic Stack29 of 962Not in the top three

Dynatrace28 of 960Not in the top three

Grafana24 of 967Not 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 OpenObserve. 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 81 of the 96 answers that named OpenObserve and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.aiYour site78

toolradar.com40

cubeapm.com25

cribl.io21

middleware.io21

gartner.com20

signoz.io19

uptrace.dev19

dash0.com17

motadata.com17

199 of the 277 domain citations in answers naming OpenObserve came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

openobserve.ai/blog/log-management-tools32

toolradar.com/guides/best-observability-platforms16

toolradar.com/guides/best-log-management-tools15

gartner.com/reviews/market/observability-platforms14

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools14

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-observability-platforms14

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-10-log-collection-and-analysis-platforms13

grepr.ai/blog/best-log-management-tools-in-2026-a-realists-buying-guide13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as OpenObserve

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

HyperDX / OpenObserve 1

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