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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	18 of 70	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	58 of 59	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	60 of 65	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	86 of 87	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%
Incident management and on-call	IT operations and endpoint	0%	46 of 53	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 25%
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	52 of 63	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%

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, 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. 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	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	2	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	2	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative24 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative43 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.

“SolarWinds is recommended for mid-size teams with hybrid IT environments.” Kimi K2 · APM · direct prompt · alternative

“Best Value for Hybrid/IT-Focused B2B” Grok 4.1 Fast · APM · direct 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.

“Its reputation was severely damaged by the infamous SolarWinds123 security breach... complex setup... poor customer support” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“Multiple users in sysadmin forums explicitly recommend avoiding SolarWinds' log and monitoring suite” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“A sysadmin comment explicitly says to "avoid at all costs," reflecting strong negative sentiment” Perplexity Sonar · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

“log management platforms that users should be cautious about or avoid, such as Solarwinds” Llama 4 Maverick · Logs · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds, over the 43 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datadog22 of 439Not in the top three

New Relic20 of 433Not in the top three

Dynatrace17 of 433Not in the top three

Zabbix13 of 431Not in the top three

Splunk13 of 430Not in the top three

NinjaOne8 of 433Not in the top three

Atera8 of 432Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management8 of 430Not in the top three

Grafana7 of 431Not in the top three

Prometheus7 of 431Not 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. 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 39 of the 43 answers that named SolarWinds and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com17

gartner.com15

signoz.io13

dash0.com10

g2.com10

middleware.io10

motadata.com9

netdata.cloud9

grepr.ai8

instatus.com8

109 of the 109 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools12

netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools9

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/17920nr/need_help_to_choose_the_right_log_management9

grepr.ai/blog/best-log-management-tools-in-2026-a-realists-buying-guide8

ardura.consulting/blog/apm-tools-comparison-20266

middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools6

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-infrastructure-monitoring-tools-comparison5

community.spiceworks.com/t/looking-for-a-good-log-management-system-for-a-small-business-15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 (AppOptics or Observability) 1Solarwinds 1

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Claim this page

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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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