Small business▼−10Since September 2026: 15% → 5%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 15% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 3 → 5 of 53
SolarWinds · 1 category · RankedSolarWinds Papertrail
38Judge labels
6First choices
3Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Logs for small business buyers
Rank 13 of 73 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 56
7%29 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market13 of 73
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise66 of 66
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In logs · 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 Papertrail 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Log management | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 13 of 73 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SolarWinds Papertrail held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Logs · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 of 66, unchanged
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 54 → 62 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logs | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 13 of 73 |
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 SolarWinds Papertrail 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 SolarWinds Papertrail 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative11 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained8 labels3
Scale-constrained2 labels1
Negative8 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 13 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.
“Papertrail's pricing is fair, especially with a generous free tier and a competitive Pro plan at $7/month for 1GB” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Logs · budget prompt · first choice
“Papertrail is described as a good fit for individual developers and small teams” Perplexity Sonar · Logs · budget 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.
“Why avoid: Minimal search capabilities, basic retention policies, lacks advanced features” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Papertrail, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Papertrail was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Papertrail, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Papertrail 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 SolarWinds Papertrail. 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 35 of the 38 answers that named SolarWinds Papertrail and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
openobserve.ai24
middleware.io22
cribl.io17
us.fitgap.com17
dash0.com14
dupple.com13
toolradar.com13
process.st11
betterstack.com10
g2.com10
151 of the 151 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Papertrail came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
papertrail.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SolarWinds Papertrail takes 2% of first choices and Datadog Log Management takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
papertrail.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SolarWinds Papertrail takes 2% of first choices and Datadog Log Management takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “log management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “log management platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 70 a month (“solarwinds papertrail”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 8,175 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,357 · 58 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,193
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 13 of 73 in logs
Segment leader
28%
Datadog Log Management
- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 38 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 35 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 papertrail.com
438
subdomains included
Content
176
counted in the table below
Documentation
105
Product · Integration
143 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 158 | 0 | 2026-03-03 | Logs, Infra monitoring | |
| Report or ebook | 9 | 0 | 2022-08-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-02 | Observability |
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- 2023-09-12Logging in docker containers and live monitoring with papertrail blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page papertrail.com 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 SolarWinds Papertrail
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SolarWinds Papertrail; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Papertrail.ShowHide
The company
SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Papertrail.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from SolarWinds
- SolarWinds AppOptics, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds Loggly, SolarWinds NPM and 17 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Log management made easy
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Starts at: $5.00 Per GB per month* papertrail.com/plans
- Starting price
- 5.00 papertrail.com/plans
- Free plan or trial
- 30 days free, no credit card required papertrail.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What SolarWinds Papertrail's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: papertrail.com, papertrail.com/plans, papertrail.com/help/security, papertrail.com/solution. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 SolarWinds Papertrail'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 SolarWinds Papertrail, 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 SolarWinds Papertrail by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SolarWinds Papertrail 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 Papertrail, 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.