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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker Studio

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALooker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

    $9

    per month per user per project

    Prometheus

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APrometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
    Pricing
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    Editions & Modules
    Looker Studio Pro
    $9
    per month per user per project
    Looker Studio
    No charge
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    34 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker Studio and Prometheus
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    7.0
    62 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Prometheus
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.361 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.259 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker Studio and Prometheus
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    7.7
    61 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Prometheus
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis6.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.759 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker Studio and Prometheus
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    8.1
    60 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Prometheus
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.453 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.753 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.942 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker Studio and Prometheus
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    6.6
    60 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Prometheus
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.757 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Looker StudioPrometheus
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    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    InfluxDB
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.7
    (10 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Looker StudioPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Visualizing cross-channel campaign performance can blend data from a few different sources to compare performance metrics like spend, clicks, and conversions side-by-side in a single view, which helps in quick budget reallocation decisions. When dealing with massive volumes of data (millions of rows) or highly complex queries, Looker Studio dashboards can become slow, laggy, or even crash. Performance issues are a frequent complaint when working with large datasets, making it unsuitable for enterprise-level companies
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    Open Source
    This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Breath of data - the number of ways to interrogate the data is endless, and the options to view metrics alongside each other make for comprehensive datasets.
    • Data visualisation and customisation - the options for presenting data and separating out across pages allow for clean visuals and segmented information.
    • Easy shareability/usability - a quick and simple tool to introduce colleagues to, and easy to grant access for them to be able to view the data, without having to understand the setup itself.
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    Open Source
    • Looking at metrics such as the aggregate number of HTTP requests served.
    • Understanding how our services are performing in aggregate.
    • Easy to deploy within a variety of architectures/environments.
    • Open source so new features are added regularly and bugs are fixed in a timely manner.
    • Free so there are no licensing restrictions.
    • Endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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    Cons
    Google
    • It needs better handling of complex logic. We often need workarounds to perform complex custom calculations, and it can be really unpleasant at times.
    • Felt it got slow with a larger data set, and in one minor report, we had to set up time filters so that calculations during spikes could be traced more quickly.
    • Compare to competition they need to improve with notification things.
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    Open Source
    • Customer Service: since this is an open-source tool, customer service is not that great. Generally, you get all answers to your problems in online forums, but in case you got stuck, nobody will assist you in a channelised manner. You will have to find the way out on your own, and it may become frustrating at times.
    • More metrics for dashboards shall be added per the application being monitored. Standards metrics will work in most cases but may not in specific applications. Therefore, customised metrics shall be created for some of the industry-standard niche applications.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    It is the simplest and least expensive way for us to automate our reporting at this time. I like the ability to customize literally everything about each report, and the ability to send out reports automatically in emails. The only issue we have been having recently is a technical glitch in the automatic email report. Sadly, there is almost no support for this tool from Google, but is also free, so that is important to take into consideration
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Looker Studio is easy to use, and it offers a sufficient variety of predefined visualizations to choose from. It's easy for us, and anyone can set up basic reporting without extensive data visualization skills. The interface layout is easy to understand, and it doesn't take long to get used to.
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    Open Source
    It is usable and one can learn if few people in the team are already using it. It can be difficult to understand at the beginning because of non intuitive UI and syntax of the rules. So, I've gone for 7 points as there is some room for improvement in user interface and rules syntax.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    I give it a lower support rating because it seems like our Dev team hasn't gotten the support they need to set up our database to connect. Seems like we hit a roadblock and the project got put on pause for dev. That sucks for me because it is harder to get the dev team to focus on it if they don't get the help they need to set it up.
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    Open Source
    Never had to reach out to them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Looker Studio is far easier to implement, stand up, and learn. The interface is simpler and user-friendly for various levels of data visualization/analysis knowledge and experience. The biggest benefit of Looker Studio, however, is its ease of connection to GA data and speed. Furthermore, since it is an online program/tool, it requires less CPU/battery/storage on the user's device.
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    Open Source
    Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Free, so the only investment is time
    • Because it doesn't have native support of non-Google sources, it can cost more money than Tableau
    • The time spent formatting the templates or building connectors can have a negative impact on ROI
    • As a agency, charging for the reporting service is profitable after the first month or two after building the dashboard.
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    Open Source
    • We are still working on the ROI
    • The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI.
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