Every category where a model named Splunk Observability Cloud 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
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	27 of 63	27%	11	criticized challenger
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	66 of 70	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	56 of 65	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Splunk Observability Cloud 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 Splunk Observability Cloud 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
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	2	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct10 labels2

Paraphrase14 labelsNone

Comparative18 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative18 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Log powerhouse, security integration (SIEM), massive scale for unstructured data” Grok 4.1 Fast · Observability · comparative prompt · alternative

“migrating cloud customers toward Splunk Observability Cloud” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Observability · negative 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.

“Splunk Observability may be overkill for small businesses with monolithic applications or simple websites” Mistral Small · Observability · negative prompt · soft negative

“Splunk is often viewed as a premium tool, but its observability cloud has distinct downsides.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Observability · negative prompt · soft negative

“If you have Splunk logs/SIEM | Weaker standalone traces” Grok 4.1 Fast · Observability · scale prompt · soft negative

“should be assessed for pricing and portfolio lock-in” Perplexity Sonar · APM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Splunk Observability Cloud, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Splunk Observability Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datadog67 of 7026Not in the top three

Dynatrace61 of 7018Not in the top three

New Relic55 of 703Not in the top three

Grafana31 of 704Not in the top three

AppDynamics17 of 700Not in the top three

Elastic Observability12 of 700Not in the top three

Honeycomb11 of 700Not in the top three

SigNoz10 of 700Not in the top three

Chronosphere8 of 700Not in the top three

Prometheus8 of 700Not 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 Splunk Observability Cloud. 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 61 of the 70 answers that named Splunk Observability Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com35

ir.com25

augmentcode.com21

metoro.io20

openobserve.ai19

toolradar.com18

coralogix.com16

newrelic.com16

parseable.com16

dynatrace.com14

200 of the 200 domain citations in answers naming Splunk Observability Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ir.com/guides/top-observability-tools-comparison-2026-smbs-vs-enterprise-platforms25

gartner.com/reviews/market/observability-platforms24

augmentcode.com/tools/best-observability-platforms21

parseable.com/blog/ten-best-enterprise-observability-platforms-202616

toolradar.com/guides/best-observability-platforms16

metoro.io/blog/enterprise-observability-tools15

coralogix.com/guides/observability/observability-platforms12

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-observability-platforms12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Splunk Observability Cloud

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

Splunk Observability 2SignalFx 1SignalFx/Splunk 1Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 1Splunk Observability (SignalFx) 1

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