Every category where a model named SolarWinds 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%	60 of 78	38%	13	criticized challenger
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	72 of 73	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 28%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Incident management and on-call	IT operations and endpoint	0%	54 of 65	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 32%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	76 of 79	100%	2	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.
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	63 of 80	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27%	=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%	74 of 85	100%	1	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%	41 of 62	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	0%	105 of 124	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%
Website and synthetic monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	64 of 67	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by UptimeRobot at 24%

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.20	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	2	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	5	6
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	2
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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained16 labelsNone

Negative26 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative72 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.

“Choose SolarWinds, PRTG, or WhatsUp Gold if you want traditional network monitoring” Perplexity Sonar · Network monitoring · comparative prompt · alternative

“SolarWinds and PRTG are leading for traditional on-prem monitoring.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Network monitoring · comparative 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.

“Strongly cautioned against by IT professionals due to persistent sales pressure and overall dissatisfaction. One user explicitly advised to "avoid at all costs"” Mistral Small · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“"Avoid at all costs, unless you like speaking to their sales people more often than your family."” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“SolarWinds is called out in a user discussion as a platform some would "avoid at all costs,"” Perplexity Sonar · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“License costs can balloon and aren't designed for constrained budgets.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds, over the 72 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zabbix26 of 725Not among the top eight

Dynatrace20 of 723Not among the top eight

Datadog19 of 722Not among the top eight

Datadog Network Monitoring18 of 721Not among the top eight

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor17 of 723Not among the top eight

Splunk17 of 720Not among the top eight

New Relic16 of 720Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager14 of 723Not among the top eight

Nagios14 of 721Not among the top eight

LogicMonitor13 of 721Not 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. 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 61 of the 72 answers that named SolarWinds and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

motadata.com20

g2.com17

netdata.cloud15

comparitech.com12

thectoclub.com12

guideflow.com10

solarwinds.comYour site10

instatus.com9

ir.com9

it-ai-index.com9

113 of the 123 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools9

pandorafms.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools9

kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-20268

motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools7

netdata.cloud/resources/best-network-monitoring-tools7

instatus.com/blog/small-business-network-monitoring-software6

tekpon.com/insights/productivity-tools/it/best-network-monitoring-software6

coralogix.com/guides/top-log-management-tools-compared5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

solarwinds.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SolarWinds takes 0% of first choices and Auvik takes 26%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “network monitoring tool”

Position for “network monitoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 14,800 a month (“solarwinds”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1,396 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 364,756 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 32,150 · 3,478 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 21,778
Paid Google search: 19 searches its ads show for, about 165 clicks and $2,104 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 112 text, 8 image · 89 shown in the last 30 days

First shown September 2025, as Solarwinds Worldwide, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 112 in the year, 8 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 60 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 72 answers
Its own site cited: in 61 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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Addresses on solarwinds.com

8,185

subdomains included

Content

3,136

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

657 · 251

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	2,197	8	2026-09-21	SIEM, Observability
News or press	320	0	2026-04-15	Observability
Podcast or video	225	undated
Report or ebook	164	undated
Comparison	71	undated
Case study	51	undated
Conference or event	46	undated
Glossary or explainer	46	0	2026-03-26
Webinar or virtual event	8	2	2026-09-07
Template or tool	8	0	2020-10-07

Most recent

2026-09-21Enterprise service management is for more than it hr facilities and finance use cases blog
2026-09-15Red cards comeback wins and the unsung defense keeping modern business online blog
2026-09-15September 15 solarwinds service desk release blog
2026-09-095 findings from the 2026 state of itsm report for service desk leaders blog
2026-09-09Sap hana architecture explained blog
2026-09-07September database webinars webinar or virtual event

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page solarwinds.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

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

SolarWinds (Orion) 1SolarWinds (Serv-U) 1SolarWinds (Squadcast) 1SolarWinds (and SolarWinds Papertrail) 1

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The company

SolarWinds is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Simple, powerful, secure hybrid IT observability and IT management software built to accelerate your transformation.
solarwinds.com
For: IT professionals
solarwinds.com
Price stated: Simple, transparent pricing. solarwinds.com/pricing
Starting price: 8 solarwinds.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Free Product Trials solarwinds.com
Customers named: CorevistSilverback SystemsPine LabsHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International AirportNational Sugar Marketing Cooperative, Inc.Kilvington Grammar SchoolExpo City DubaiCommunications service provider
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What SolarWinds's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: solarwinds.com, solarwinds.com/pricing, solarwinds.com/security, solarwinds.com/solutions/orion, solarwinds.com/blog/category/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where SolarWinds 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, 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.