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	Since September 2026
Insider risk management	Security operations	4%	7 of 84	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management at 22%
SIEM platforms	Security operations	2%	9 of 61	38%	8	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Sentinel at 38%	▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

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 and per category, 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. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.20	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
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	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“I'd recommend SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) as a strong starting point for an insider threat platform.” Grok 4.20 · Insider risk · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Microsoft Sentinel and SolarWinds are often considered the best options due to their affordability” Mistral Small · SIEM · budget prompt · first choice

“I recommend SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) as the best insider threat platform” Mistral Small · Insider risk · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Best “easy but affordable” commercial option: SolarWinds SIEM — Comparitech describes it as affordable and user-friendly” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“SolarWinds is not a good choice for a SIEM platform, as it is not their core business nor a strength” Llama 4 Maverick · SIEM · negative prompt · hard negative

“concerns about older products such as QRadar, LogRhythm, and SolarWinds as SIEM choices” Perplexity Sonar · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“SSA/EOL issues — SolarWinds and AlienVault (AT&T) have seen reduced investment” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Security Event Manager, over the 28 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ManageEngine Log3608 of 282Not among the top eight

Microsoft Sentinel8 of 282Not among the top eight

Security Onion6 of 285Not among the top eight

Wazuh6 of 284Not among the top eight

LogRhythm6 of 280Not among the top eight

Splunk Enterprise Security6 of 280Not among the top eight

Blumira5 of 282Not among the top eight

Rapid7 InsightIDR5 of 281Not among the top eight

Vectra AI5 of 280Not among the top eight

Corelight Open NDR4 of 280Not 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 Security Event Manager. 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 28 of the 28 answers that named SolarWinds Security Event Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comparitech.com14

g2.com12

exabeam.com10

sentinelone.com10

devopsschool.com8

reddit.com8

underdefense.com8

us.fitgap.com8

cybersecuritynews.com6

manageengine.com6

Ninety of the ninety domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Security Event Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ndr-network-detection-and-response-tools-in-2025-features-pro7

techrepublic.com/article/siem-tools6

underdefense.com/blog/siem-solutions-comparison6

comparitech.com/net-admin/siem-tools5

cybersecuritynews.com/best-ndr-solutions5

dupple.com/blog/network-security-monitoring-tools5

g2.com/categories/network-detection-and-response-ndr/small-business5

g2.com/categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem/small-business5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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: 90 a month (“solarwinds security event manager”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 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 7 of 84 in insider risk

Segment leader

22%

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 28 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 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 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 SEM 3SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 3SolarWinds 1SolarWinds (SW) 1SolarWinds SIEM 1

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The company

SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

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On record

Company records

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where SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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 Security Event Manager, 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;
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