Every category where a model named OpenTelemetry 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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	14 of 66	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 46%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	16 of 80	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AIOps platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	28 of 93	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	21 of 42	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 76%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	34 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog at 28%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	39 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28%

Movement

Since September 2026, OpenTelemetry held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · APM · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 of 58, unchanged

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 29 → 15 of 60

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 21 → 37 of 57

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
APM	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 29 → 14 of 66
Observability	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 17 → 16 of 80
AIOps	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 28 of 93, unchanged
Error monitoring	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 21 of 42, unchanged
Infra monitoring	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 40 → 34 of 79
Logs	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 39 of 73, 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 OpenTelemetry across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	3	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	2

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative12 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 4 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.

“avoid expensive suites early on and instrument with OpenTelemetry so you can switch tools later” Claude Haiku 4.5 · APM · negative prompt · first choice

“Safer Alternatives Worth Considering... Grafana + Prometheus + OpenTelemetry (open-source stack” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Observability · negative prompt · first choice

“Open standard, no vendor lock-in, you control costs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · APM · negative prompt · first choice

“open-source-first options (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) that give you more control and often lower licensing costs” MiniMax M2.5 · Observability · negative 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 OpenTelemetry, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OpenTelemetry was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic25 of 377Not among the top eight

Dynatrace18 of 371Not among the top eight

Datadog APM14 of 375Not among the top eight

Datadog14 of 372Not among the top eight

Prometheus13 of 371Not among the top eight

Grafana Cloud11 of 372Not among the top eight

Splunk9 of 371Not among the top eight

Grafana8 of 374Not among the top eight

Elastic APM8 of 370Not among the top eight

AppDynamics7 of 370Not among the top eight

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 OpenTelemetry. 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 28 of the 37 answers that named OpenTelemetry and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com11

newrelic.com11

motadata.com9

datadoghq.com7

openobserve.ai7

medium.com6

signoz.io6

atatus.com5

cloudzero.com5

dev.to5

Seventy-two of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming OpenTelemetry came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aiopsschool.com/blog/top-aiops-tools-for-it-professionals-the-definitive-operational-compa4

aurorasre.ai/blog/top-10-aiops-platforms-free-root-cause-analysis-20264

clankercloud.ai/blog/best-open-source-aiops-tools-20264

g2.com/categories/aiops-platforms4

motadata.com/blog/aiops-platforms4

newrelic.com/pricing4

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-aiops-platforms4

opentelemetry.io/docs4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

opentelemetry.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, OpenTelemetry takes 0% of first choices and New Relic takes 46%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “apm tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “apm tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 12,100 a month (“opentelemetry”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 840 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 24,504 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 8,935 · 408 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 11,355
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 14 of 66 in APM

Segment leader

46%

New Relic

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 37 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 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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Addresses on opentelemetry.io

6,234

subdomains included

Content

299

counted in the table below

Documentation

2,060

Product · Integration

1 · 1

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	273	17	2026-09-25	API gateways
News or press	13	4	2026-09-09
Glossary or explainer	9	undated
Conference or event	2	undated
Comparison	2	0	2026-03-19

Most recent

2026-09-25Exploring instrumentation ecosystem blog
2026-09-22Otel prometheus interoperability blog
2026-09-21Gc elections blog
2026-09-18Dual dotnet metrics export with otlp and prometheus blog
2026-09-16K8s attributes processor v1 blog
2026-09-11Environment variable context propagation blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page opentelemetry.io 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 OpenTelemetry

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

Grafana + Prometheus + OpenTelemetry 1OpenTelemetry (OTel) 1OpenTelemetry + Grafana 1OpenTelemetry + Grafana/Prometheus 1Prometheus + Grafana + OpenTelemetry 1

Follow OpenTelemetry

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

OpenTelemetry is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The open standard for telemetry
opentelemetry.io
For: For Collector component developers
opentelemetry.io/docs/security
Integrations claimed: 1163 opentelemetry.io
Certifications: Open sourcevendor-neutralCNCF graduated project
Customers named: AlibabaeBayGitHubHerokuMercado LibreShopifySkyscannerUiPath
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, hosting

What OpenTelemetry's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: opentelemetry.io, opentelemetry.io/docs/security, opentelemetry.io/site/features, opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/integrations. 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 OpenTelemetry'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 OpenTelemetry, 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 OpenTelemetry by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where OpenTelemetry 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 OpenTelemetry, 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.