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Index › Vendors › SolarWinds Observability · September 2026 Edition

SolarWinds · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

SolarWinds Observability

8Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SolarWinds Observability was named 5 times in APM and 1 other category, where New Relic led with 54%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market24 of 70

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 of 58

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 SolarWinds Observability 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	0%	24 of 70	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	38 of 63	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SolarWinds Observability 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 SolarWinds Observability across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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 your stack is hybrid and you want broad infrastructure and application visibility” Perplexity Sonar · APM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“For IT ops-focused infra/network visibility: SolarWinds Observability” GLM 4.7 FlashX · APM · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Observability, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Observability was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic8 of 81Not in the top three

Datadog7 of 85Not in the top three

Dynatrace7 of 81Not in the top three

IBM Instana7 of 80Not in the top three

AppDynamics4 of 80Not in the top three

Grafana Cloud4 of 80Not in the top three

Elastic APM3 of 80Not in the top three

Elastic Observability3 of 80Not in the top three

Site24x73 of 80Not in the top three

Azure Monitor Application Insights2 of 80Not 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 SolarWinds Observability. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named SolarWinds Observability and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reveillesoftware.com5

toolradar.com5

instatus.com4

g2.com3

newrelic.com3

openobserve.ai3

rollbar.com3

aimultiple.com2

buzzclan.com2

gartner.com2

Thirty-two of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Observability came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

reveillesoftware.com/blog/blog/14-best-application-performance-monitoring-apm-tools-20245

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools4

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools3

toolradar.com/guides/best-application-monitoring-tools3

aimultiple.com/observability-software2

buzzclan.com/digital-transformation/apm-tools2

newrelic.com/blog/apm/application-performance-monitoring-tools2

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SolarWinds Observability

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

SolarWinds Observability / Site24x7 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at solarwinds.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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