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Index › Vendors › SolarWinds Orion · September 2026 Edition

SolarWinds · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

SolarWinds Orion

5Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

4 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SolarWinds Orion was named 4 times in Infra monitoring and 1 other category, where Site24x7 led with 24%. 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-market64 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprise58 of 66

under the label threshold

In infra monitoring · 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 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
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	64 of 65	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	84 of 87	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

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, 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. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Avoid SolarWinds Orion unless you have compelling compliance reasons and robust compensating controls.” Kimi K2 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“the legacy on-premise Orion suite has been criticized for being clunky, expensive, and slow to modernize” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why avoid: The infamous SUNBURST supply-chain attack” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative

“Patched, but trust issues linger; audit rigorously if considering.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Orion, over the 5 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prometheus4 of 51Not in the top three

Datadog4 of 50Not in the top three

Nagios4 of 50Not in the top three

Zabbix4 of 50Not in the top three

New Relic3 of 50Not in the top three

Checkmk2 of 50Not in the top three

Dynatrace2 of 50Not in the top three

Grafana2 of 50Not in the top three

Netdata2 of 50Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune + Windows Autopatch1 of 51Not 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 Orion. 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 4 of the 5 answers that named SolarWinds Orion and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dash0.com3

gartner.com3

signoz.io3

checkmk.com2

cisa.gov2

clickhouse.com2

gartsolutions.com2

middleware.io2

performance.qa2

reddit.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Orion came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dash0.com/comparisons/infrastructure-monitoring-tools3

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools3

signoz.io/comparisons/infrastructure-monitoring-tools3

checkmk.com/blog/why-you-should-replace-nagios2

checkmk.com/guides/nagios-alternative2

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-infrastructure-monitoring-tools-comparison2

gartsolutions.com/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-software2

middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Platform (including Patch Manager) 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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