Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 11 of 72
8 categories · RankedPrometheus + Grafana
112Judge labels
4First choices
14Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
8Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Infra monitoring for small business buyers
Rank 13 of 79 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Prometheus + Grafana →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 74
2%31 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market13 of 79
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise12 of 70
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
In infra monitoring · 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 Prometheus + Grafana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 13 of 79 | 5% | 19 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 18 of 66 | 0% | 6 | 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. |
| Network monitoring and management | Network and edge | 0% | 23 of 78 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26% | |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 0% | 53 of 110 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% | |
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 27 of 80 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AIOps platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 49 of 93 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17% | |
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 48 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Error and crash monitoring | Developer platform | 0% | 29 of 42 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 76% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Prometheus + Grafana held within the floor in all eight categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Infra monitoring · by segment
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 11 of 69, unchanged
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 13 → 12 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 27 of 80 |
| 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 11 → 13 of 79 |
| 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 24 → 18 of 66 |
| Network monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 23 of 78, unchanged |
| Data observability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 110, unchanged |
| AIOps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 49 of 93, unchanged |
| FinOps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 48 of 76, unchanged |
| Error monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 29 of 42, 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 Prometheus + Grafana across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Prometheus + Grafana across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct15 labelsNone
Paraphrase14 labelsNone
Comparative29 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained31 labels4
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative16 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative112 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 8 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.
“OpenTelemetry + Prometheus + Grafana (open source, inspectable, community-driven)” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · first choice
“The Absolute Cheapest Option: Prometheus + Grafana (Self-Hosted)... If costs grow too high later, migrate the data back to a self-hosted Prometheus” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Observability · budget prompt · alternative
“the gold standard for Kubernetes and container metrics collection ... unparalleled flexibility at zero licensing cost” Muse Glimmer 30B · Infra monitoring · comparative prompt · alternative
“Modern container/Kubernetes, dynamic metrics and you are comfortable assembling a stack → Prometheus + Grafana.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Infra monitoring · budget 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.
“Engineering cost to maintain; no vendor support” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prometheus + Grafana, over the 112 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Prometheus + Grafana was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prometheus + Grafana, over the 112 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Prometheus + Grafana was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Prometheus + Grafana. 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 89 of the 112 answers that named Prometheus + Grafana and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
motadata.com59
netdata.cloud42
signoz.io32
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com31
comparitech.com29
newrelic.com28
uptrace.dev27
g2.com26
middleware.io25
sematext.com23
322 of the 322 domain citations in answers naming Prometheus + Grafana came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
grafana.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Prometheus + Grafana takes 0% of first choices and Datadog takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
grafana.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Prometheus + Grafana takes 0% of first choices and Datadog takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “infrastructure monitoring tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “infrastructure monitoring tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“prometheus + grafana”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 299 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 84,520 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 23,340 · 1,526 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 30,353
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 13 of 79 in infra monitoring
Segment leader
28%
Datadog
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 112 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 89 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on grafana.com
24,060
subdomains included
Content
3,026
counted in the table below
Documentation
7,452
Product · Integration
29 · 139
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,964 | 13 | 2026-09-14 | Observability, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 537 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 175 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 140 | undated | |||
| News or press | 79 | 5 | 2026-08-01 | Observability | |
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 1 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2021-04-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations blog
- 2026-09-10Synthetic monitoring labels update blog
- 2026-09-09How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud blog
- 2026-08-27Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier blog
- 2026-08-27How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability blog
- 2026-08-25The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- March 5, 2026ObservabilityCON on the Road: TorontoDelta Hotels Toronto, Toronto, Canada · hosted
As the event pages on grafana.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grafana.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. 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 Prometheus + Grafana
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Prometheus + Grafana; a claim can dispute any of them.
Prometheus/Grafana 3Grafana Cloud / Prometheus + Grafana 1Prometheus & Grafana 1Prometheus + Grafana (Open Source) 1Prometheus + Grafana (Self-Hosted) 1
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The company
Prometheus + Grafana is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Prometheus + Grafana is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Full-stack observability with Grafana Cloud
- For
- individual teams or across an organization
- Price stated
- Plans to suit every scale grafana.com
- Starting price
- 19 grafana.com/products/cloud
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan grafana.com
- Certifications
- FEDRAMP CompliantNATSEC100 CertifiedPCI DSS CompliantA-LIGN CertifiedAICPA SOC Type II VerifiedGDPR CompliantSOC 2ISO/IEC 27001
- Hosting
- Public CloudFederal CloudBring Your Own Cloud
- Customers named
- BlackRockPegasystemsLovableLATAM AirlinesDelivery HeroASOSSailPointMux
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Prometheus + Grafana's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: grafana.com, grafana.com/pricing, trust.grafana.com, grafana.com/products/cloud, grafana.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Prometheus + Grafana by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Prometheus + Grafana 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 Prometheus + Grafana, 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.