Every category where a model named Progress WhatsUp Gold 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	2%	10 of 78	0%	11	accepted challenger
Network detection and response	Security operations	0%	95 of 102	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Progress WhatsUp Gold yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Progress WhatsUp Gold 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	2	0	3
Grok 4.20	0	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 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.

“ManageEngine OpManager and Progress WhatsUp Gold frequently hit the sweet spot of features vs. cost” Kimi K2 · Network monitoring · scale prompt · first choice

“you might want to explore the free versions of commercial tools like WhatsUp Gold or Pulseway” MiniMax M2.5 · Network monitoring · budget prompt · alternative

“Network-first with interactive maps, real-time monitoring, and unified device/traffic views.” Grok 4.20 · Network monitoring · direct prompt · alternative

“Often chosen for clear dashboards and simpler network visibility.” Perplexity Sonar · Network monitoring · comparative 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.

“High cost... Poor interface design... Complex setup... Steep learning curve” Kimi K2 · NDR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Progress WhatsUp Gold, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Progress WhatsUp Gold was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zabbix18 of 282Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager17 of 286Not among the top eight

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor14 of 285Not among the top eight

Datadog Network Monitoring14 of 280Not among the top eight

Auvik11 of 282Not among the top eight

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor8 of 281Not among the top eight

LogicMonitor8 of 280Not among the top eight

Dynatrace7 of 280Not among the top eight

Nagios7 of 280Not among the top eight

Site24x76 of 280Not 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold. 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 28 answers that named Progress WhatsUp Gold and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com15

guideflow.com13

comparitech.com12

manageengine.com12

ninjaone.com12

kentik.com11

learn.g2.com11

blog.domotz.com10

netdata.cloud10

techrepublic.com10

116 of the 116 domain citations in answers naming Progress WhatsUp Gold came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools13

ninjaone.com/blog/best-network-management-tools12

kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-202611

learn.g2.com/best-network-monitoring-software11

datamation.com/networks/network-monitoring-software9

netdata.cloud/resources/best-network-monitoring-tools9

techrepublic.com/article/network-monitoring-software9

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/network-monitoring-tools8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

progress.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Progress WhatsUp Gold takes 2% of first choices and Auvik takes 26%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “network monitoring tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “network monitoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 70 a month (“progress whatsup gold”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 964,341 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 17,347 · 1,676 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 19,354
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 104 text, 14 image, 2 video · 55 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2023, as Progress Software Corporation, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 77 in the year, 43 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 28 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 progress.com

15,765

subdomains included

Content

7,655

counted in the table below

Documentation

2,275

Product · Integration

184 · 213

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	5,893	12	2026-09-28	NoSQL, ETL
Webinar or virtual event	785	0	2025-10-20	Data warehouses, ETL
Podcast or video	477	0	2025-10-23	APM, NoSQL
Conference or event	141	undated
Glossary or explainer	103	11	2026-09-16	CSPM, API management
Comparison	95	4	2026-08-05
Report or ebook	81	0	2026-05-21	Data warehouses, ETL
Case study	54	11	2026-09-25
News or press	17	undated
Template or tool	9	0	2026-03-24

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2026-09-22Tomas bata regional hospital case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page progress.com 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (10); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold

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

WhatsUp Gold 5

Follow Progress WhatsUp Gold

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

Progress WhatsUp Gold is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Find and fix network problems fast by monitoring your entire IT Infrastructure (physical, virtual, cloud, applications and more).
progress.com
For: IT teams
progress.com
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II
Customers named: VolkswagenTomas Bata Regional Hospital in Zlín
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Progress WhatsUp Gold's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: progress.com, progress.com/podio/pricing, trust.progress.com, progress.com/flowmon/platform, progress.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Progress WhatsUp Gold'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 Progress WhatsUp Gold, 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Progress WhatsUp Gold 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold, 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.