Every category where a model named SigNoz 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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	13%	2 of 70	4%	23	accepted challenger
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	8%	4 of 63	0%	18	accepted challenger
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	6%	7 of 59	0%	13	accepted challenger
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	16 of 65	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	14 of 44	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%
Incident management and on-call	IT operations and endpoint	0%	34 of 53	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SigNoz 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 SigNoz 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	1	3	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	6	1	1	8
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	2	0	7
Mistral Small	1	1	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	9	3	0	15
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	0	2
Kimi K2	3	5	2	0	10
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	2	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3

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

Direct17 labels3

Paraphrase12 labels1

Comparative27 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained46 labels16

Scale-constrained24 labels3

Negative38 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative164 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 27 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.

“If you need a completely free solution and have some technical expertise, SigNoz or Grafana + Prometheus are excellent choices.” Mistral Small · APM · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd strongly suggest SigNoz or the Prometheus + Grafana + Sentry combo — they're the most cost-effective at scale” DeepSeek V4 Flash · APM · budget prompt · first choice

“SigNoz (open-source, OpenTelemetry-native) or New Relic (managed, zero-ops) are the strongest starting points” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · direct 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

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.

“Self-hosted open-source stacks (e.g., Prometheus + Jaeger + Grafana or self-hosted SigNoz)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · APM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SigNoz, over the 164 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SigNoz was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic117 of 16441Compare →

Datadog112 of 16411Compare →

Dynatrace67 of 1647Not in the top three

Grafana62 of 16420Not in the top three

OpenObserve42 of 1643Not in the top three

Better Stack39 of 16412Not in the top three

Honeycomb38 of 1644Not in the top three

Sentry36 of 1643Not in the top three

Splunk34 of 1641Not in the top three

Grafana Loki31 of 1645Not 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 SigNoz. 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 137 of the 164 answers that named SigNoz and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai68

toolradar.com59

cubeapm.com56

signoz.ioYour site50

newrelic.com48

uptrace.dev45

g2.com43

middleware.io40

gartner.com35

motadata.com35

429 of the 479 domain citations in answers naming SigNoz came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/guides/best-observability-platforms31

cubeapm.com/blog/top-apm-tools-features-pricing-usecases30

ir.com/guides/top-observability-tools-comparison-2026-smbs-vs-enterprise-platforms27

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools25

uptrace.dev/tools/top-observability-tools25

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools24

drizz.dev/post/apm-tools23

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools23

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SigNoz

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

SigNoz Cloud 2SigNoz (open-source) 1

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