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SolarWinds · 1 category · Named, not ranked

SolarWinds Security Event Manager

8Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

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 Security Event Manager was named 4 times in SIEM, where Microsoft Sentinel led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market45 of 49

under the label threshold

Enterprise39 of 49

under the label threshold

In siem · 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 Security Event Manager 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
SIEM platforms	Security operations	0%	45 of 49	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 41%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 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.

“Affordable commercial | Companies wanting a paid tool without a huge premium” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SIEM · 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.

“one thread explicitly says "Do not use solarwinds," though that is anecdotal” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid if you scale: SolarWinds SEM (EPS ceiling)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Security Event Manager, 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 Security Event Manager was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Sentinel5 of 81Not in the top three

Graylog4 of 80Not in the top three

IBM QRadar4 of 80Not in the top three

Wazuh3 of 81Not in the top three

LogRhythm3 of 80Not in the top three

Elastic Security2 of 80Not in the top three

Exabeam2 of 80Not in the top three

Securonix2 of 80Not in the top three

Sumo Logic2 of 80Not in the top three

Blumira1 of 81Not 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 Security Event Manager. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named SolarWinds Security Event Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

paloaltonetworks.com3

reddit.com3

underdefense.com3

capterra.com2

cubeapm.com2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

solutionsinsider.com2

solutionsreview.com2

threatmatrix.co.uk2

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

Pages cited

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/siem-tools-comparison3

underdefense.com/blog/siem-solutions-comparison3

capterra.com/siem-software/s/small-businesses2

gartner.com/reviews/market/security-information-event-management2

solutionsinsider.com/continuity-and-compliance-solutions/best-siem-tools-for-small-busines2

threatmatrix.co.uk/best-siem-tools-for-small-businesses2

acsmi.org/blogs/complete-directory-of-best-siem-solutions-ranked-amp-reviewed-20251

bitlyft.com/resources/cybersecurity-showdown-comparing-the-top-siem-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SolarWinds Security Event Manager

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

SolarWinds SIEM 2SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 1

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