Every category where a model named SolarWinds Orion 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	0%	78 of 78	88%	8	under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	78 of 79	100%	3	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.
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	81 of 85	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	52 of 62	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SolarWinds Orion yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated SolarWinds Orion across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative20 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“many organizations are moving away from it for network / infrastructure monitoring because of the lingering trust issue and cost model” Muse Glimmer 30B · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“The 2020 compromise of SolarWinds Orion demonstrated how a patch management and remote monitoring tool can be weaponized” Mistral Small · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative

“The 2020 supply-chain breach exposed major vulnerabilities ... Avoid if: Security-sensitive environments” Grok 4.20 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“The 2020 SUNBURST attack made this the most infamous example of monitoring tool risk.” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Orion, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Orion was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Nagios14 of 220Not among the top eight

Zabbix11 of 221Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager7 of 221Not among the top eight

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor6 of 223Not among the top eight

Datadog Network Monitoring5 of 220Not among the top eight

Prometheus5 of 220Not among the top eight

Datadog4 of 220Not among the top eight

Icinga4 of 220Not among the top eight

Checkmk3 of 220Not among the top eight

Grafana3 of 220Not among the top eight

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 SolarWinds Orion. 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 19 of the 22 answers that named SolarWinds Orion and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

manageengine.com8

solarwinds.comYour site8

pandorafms.com7

techtarget.com7

ir.com6

cisa.gov5

comparitech.com5

netwrix.com5

blog.domotz.com4

fortinet.com4

Fifty-one of the fifty-nine domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Orion came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pandorafms.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools7

ir.com/guides/network-monitoring-tools6

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/network-monitoring-tools5

solarwinds.com/sa-overview/securityadvisory/faq5

techtarget.com/cybersecurity/essentialguide/SolarWinds-breach-news-center5

cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2020/12/13/active-exploitation-solarwinds-software4

wyzant.com/resources/answers/871428/what-security-risks-are-introduced-by-the-use-of-netwo4

blog.domotz.com/all/enterprise-network-monitoring-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where SolarWinds Orion stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“solarwinds orion”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 31 a month
Its own site: It sits on SolarWinds's site (solarwinds.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 78 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 22 answers
Its own site cited: in 19 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Names read as SolarWinds Orion

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

SolarWinds Orion / SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 1

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Orion.

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On record

Company records

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for SolarWinds Orion by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion, 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.