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
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	2%	9 of 63	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	11 of 65	11%	18	accepted challenger
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	27 of 70	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Prometheus + Grafana 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 Prometheus + Grafana 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	0	1	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	3	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	2	2	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	4	0	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

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 labels1

Paraphrase9 labelsNone

Comparative14 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels2

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative76 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 6 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.

“Prometheus (for metrics collection) and Grafana (for visualization) form the de facto industry standard.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Infra monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose Prometheus+Grafana for cloud-native/Kubernetes environments with strong technical teams” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice

“building your own stack with Prometheus + Grafana + Loki if you have the time to manage it” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Observability · budget prompt · first choice

“Kubernetes-heavy, cost-conscious, technical team → Prometheus + Grafana” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · comparative 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.

“Only choose this if you have a specialized Infrastructure Engineering team whose primary job is keeping the monitoring system running.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Infra monitoring · scale prompt · soft negative

“which are free but require your own infrastructure, engineering time for setup/maintenance, and scaling” Grok 4.1 Fast · APM · budget prompt · soft negative

“Open-source and flexible, but it costs more in engineering time to maintain.” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · soft negative

“Prometheus + Grafana - Open-source; requires more operational overhead” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Observability · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Prometheus + Grafana, over the 76 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic63 of 769Not in the top three

Datadog62 of 7615Not in the top three

Zabbix44 of 768Not in the top three

Dynatrace40 of 767Not in the top three

Netdata30 of 7610Not in the top three

Paessler PRTG23 of 762Not in the top three

Site24x720 of 7610Not in the top three

Grafana16 of 766Not in the top three

Splunk16 of 760Not in the top three

Nagios14 of 760Not 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 Prometheus + Grafana. 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 58 of the 76 answers that named Prometheus + Grafana and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

netdata.cloud45

gartner.com39

middleware.io33

newrelic.com23

comparitech.com22

motadata.com22

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com18

gartsolutions.com18

instatus.com18

clickhouse.com15

253 of the 253 domain citations in answers naming Prometheus + Grafana came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools42

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools36

middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools32

motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools19

comparitech.com/net-admin/infrastructure-monitoring17

gartsolutions.com/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-software16

newrelic.com/blog/infrastructure-monitoring/how-to-choose-the-best-infrastructure-monitori16

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/tools/top-7-open-source-infrastructure-monitoring-too15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 1

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