Observium vs. Prometheus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Observium
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Prometheus
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
Pricing
ObserviumPrometheus
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ObserviumPrometheus
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ObserviumPrometheus
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Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10

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User Ratings
ObserviumPrometheus
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
7.5
(35 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ObserviumPrometheus
Likelihood to Recommend
Observium
  • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
  • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
  • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
  • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
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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
Observium
  • Automatic device discovery.
  • Scalability
  • Real-time monitoring.
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Open Source
  • Best monitoring tool that have covered all aspects of our environment of my organization with it's useful metrics.
  • Great support team offers support 24/7 and very dedicated.
  • It provides excellent insights from a variety of metrics.
  • Cloud native tools compatibility and support, push/pull options for easier metrics.
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Cons
Observium
  • Documentation
  • Community support
  • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
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Open Source
  • Not a good choice if you need very high levels of accuracy with regards to collecting 100% of a certain type of data.
  • The user interface does not have much eye candy which helps you focus on what you need to see but can appear very basic in its design sometimes.
  • PromQL does have a high learning curve.
  • Not great for high cardinality data types.
  • Unlike other platforms, Prometheus does not have a macro system.
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Usability
Observium
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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
Observium
It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
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Open Source
Never had to reach out to them.
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Alternatives Considered
Observium
I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
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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
Observium
  • It is good for DC admin.
  • Only positive impact.
  • Highly recommended.
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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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