Every category where a model named Thanos 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
Time series databases	Data platform	0%	15 of 66	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by TimescaleDB at 63%
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	0%	50 of 124	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	53 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog at 28%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	58 of 80	0%	1	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.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Thanos 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 Thanos 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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.

“Thanos/Cortex (long-term)” Grok 4.20 · Telemetry pipelines · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Thanos, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Thanos was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Prometheus24 of 301Not among the top eight

VictoriaMetrics16 of 305Not among the top eight

InfluxDB16 of 301Not among the top eight

TimescaleDB15 of 306Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud15 of 300Not among the top eight

ClickHouse Cloud14 of 300Not among the top eight

Datadog12 of 301Not among the top eight

QuestDB11 of 300Not among the top eight

Amazon Timestream9 of 300Not among the top eight

Grafana Loki9 of 300Not 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 Thanos. 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 27 of the 30 answers that named Thanos and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com14

influxdata.com13

tigerdata.com13

questdb.com12

clickhouse.com10

aws.amazon.com7

coralogix.com7

tdengine.com7

dev.to6

honeycomb.io6

Ninety-five of the ninety-five domain citations in answers naming Thanos came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/time-series-database-software12

questdb.com/blog/best-time-series-databases11

tigerdata.com/learn/the-best-time-series-databases-compared11

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-time-series-databases6

honeycomb.io/blog/time-series-database5

tigerdata.com/learn/time-series-database-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-when-you-need-one5

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/what-is-time-series-database4

coralogix.com/guides/observability/observability-platforms4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

thanos.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Thanos takes 0% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “time series database”

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not in the top ten

Position for “time series databases”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 246,000 a month (“thanos”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 44,595 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 352 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 322 · 16 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,538
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 15 of 66 in time series dbs

Segment leader

63%

TimescaleDB

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 27 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on thanos.io

2,379

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-10 to 2026-09	Latest	Categories named
Blog	8	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page thanos.io 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. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Thanos

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Thanos is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.
thanos.io
Integrations claimed: 5 thanos.io
Certifications: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubating project
Customers named: AdfinisAdformAdobeAivenAmadeusArloAuthzedBanco do Brasil
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, hosting

What Thanos's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: thanos.io. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Thanos's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Thanos, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Thanos 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 Thanos, 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.