Small business▼−7Since September 2026: 11% → 4%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 3 → 6 of 58
8 categories · RankedSigNoz
226Judge labels
28First choices
8Negative 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
11% in Observability for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 66 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of SigNoz →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 60
6%33 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 66
9%23 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise13 of 59
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
In apm · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 9% | 3 of 66 | 0% | 23 | accepted challenger | ▼−6Since September 2026: 13% → 7%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 8% | 4 of 80 | 5% | 20 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 8% → 7%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 10 of 124 | 0% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% | |
| Data quality and observability | Data platform | 2% | 14 of 110 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Metaplane at 31% | |
| Log management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 15 of 73 | 0% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▼−6Since September 2026: 6% → 0%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Error and crash monitoring | Developer platform | 0% | 16 of 42 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 76% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Infrastructure monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 17 of 79 | 0% | 4 | 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. |
| Incident management and on-call | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 41 of 65 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SigNoz held within the floor in all eight categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · APM · by segment
Mid-market▼−6Since September 2026: 13% → 7%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 13% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 2 → 3 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 13 → 11 of 57
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APM | 13% | 7% | ▼−6Since September 2026: 13% → 7%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 3 of 66 |
| Logs | 6% | 0% | ▼−6Since September 2026: 6% → 0%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 15 of 73 |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 10 of 124, unchanged |
| Data observability | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 110, unchanged |
| Observability | 8% | 7% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 8% → 7%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 of 80, unchanged |
| Error 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 14 → 16 of 42 |
| 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 16 → 17 of 79 |
| Incidents | 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 33 → 41 of 65 |
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 SigNoz 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 SigNoz 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 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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
Direct30 labels3
Paraphrase14 labels1
Comparative43 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained77 labels21
Scale-constrained23 labels3
Negative39 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative226 labels in all, every segment counted; 28 of the 38 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.
“SigNoz is recommended for cost-conscious startups, as it provides traces, logs, and metrics in one place without per-host or per-seat pricing” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Observability · budget prompt · first choice
“SigNoz | OpenTelemetry-native monitoring on a budget | SaaS and self-hosted | Native-first | Limited | Free self-hosted, $49/month cloud” Muse Glimmer 30B · APM · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want to completely avoid licensing bills and scale without limits: Set up SigNoz on your own infrastructure.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · APM · budget prompt · first choice
“or SigNoz self-hosted if you have infrastructure capacity and want complete control with no licensing fees” Kimi K2 · Observability · budget 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.
“managing a ClickHouse cluster in production requires active maintenance, upgrades, and schema knowledge—which can become a "hidden" operational cost” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Observability · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SigNoz, over the 223 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SigNoz, over the 223 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.
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 SigNoz. 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 208 of the 223 answers that named SigNoz and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
middleware.io100
signoz.ioYour site98
openobserve.ai84
motadata.com81
uptrace.dev72
newrelic.com68
cubeapm.com59
dupple.com58
g2.com56
atatus.com53
631 of the 729 domain citations in answers naming SigNoz came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
signoz.io ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SigNoz takes 9% of first choices and New Relic takes 46%.ShowHide
Search and answers
signoz.io ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SigNoz takes 9% of first choices and New Relic takes 46%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “apm tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “apm tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“signoz”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 52 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,244 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,107 · 168 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,575
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days
First shown September 2025, as SigNoz Inc, verified.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 3 of 66 in APM
Segment leader
46%
New Relic
- First choices
- 28 across its categories
- Named in
- 223 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 208 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 signoz.io
1,817
subdomains included
Content
804
counted in the table below
Documentation
932
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 310 | undated | APM, Logs | ||
| Report or ebook | 266 | undated | APM, Infra monitoring | ||
| Comparison | 152 | undated | APM | ||
| News or press | 41 | 0 | 2026-06-22 | ||
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 0 | 2025-11-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-22Archive news or press
- 2026-06-22The world now has more bot traffic news or press
- 2026-06-09How to read distributed traces when news or press
- 2026-05-24Your observability tool just got news or press
- 2026-05-03Why should a trace id be 128 bits news or press
- 2026-04-19Our project hail mary the observability news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page signoz.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 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 7SigNoz (Open Source) 1Signoz 1
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The company
SigNoz is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SigNoz is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Open Source Datadog Alternative
- For
- teams and AI agents
- Price stated
- Simple usage-based pricing signoz.io
- Starting price
- $49/month signoz.io
- Free plan or trial
- Get Started — Free signoz.io
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II complianceHIPAA complianceSOC2 Type II & HIPAA CompliantHIPAA and BAA options for eligible SigNoz Cloud contracts
- Hosting
- us-eastUSEUIndia
- Customers named
- Alien IntelligenceArisoArmur AIAuvikBlack Forest LabsBlaxelCiscoEltropy
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What SigNoz's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: signoz.io, signoz.io/pricing, trust.signoz.io, signoz.io/comparisons/platform-engineering-tools, signoz.io/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 SigNoz'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 SigNoz, 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 SigNoz by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SigNoz 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 SigNoz, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where SigNoz is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where SigNoz is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSigNoz is among the products AI models recommend first in Application performance monitoring this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.