Prometheus

Prometheus

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Prometheus	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Prometheus Verified User Consultant Chose Prometheus We used Grafana and Prometheus to take advantage of both tools' features (ex. alerting, and visualization with Grafana). Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Li System Integration And Test Engineer Chose Prometheus Prometheus is great for quantifiable metrics. Loki is intended for log aggregation. Depending on project a different combination of data source types may be needed. However, quantifiable metrics are predominantly supported by Prometheus. Other data sources like elastic search … Incentivized Helpful? Abhishek Nandi Sr. Engineer Chose Prometheus The software is very lightweight and can be hosted with minimal resource usage. Many exporters exist for various software. Prometheus has a powerful and flexible query language (PromQL) that allows analyzing your data easy. I use this software with its various exporters, … Incentivized Helpful? YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Chose Prometheus 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Prometheus Since Prometheus is free to use and provides all the features we required we went with Prometheus if any feature is missing then we can consider other paid solutions like data dog. Incentivized Helpful? Pradeep Panwar Lead Mechanical Engineer Chose Prometheus Prometheus has multiple models for visualization data, a built-in expression browser, Grafana integration end a console template language. I like it stores time series in memory and on local disk in a efficient custom format. I also like how each server is independent for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Prometheus It was easy to implement in our enviroment compared to the other products which has a lot of challenges in the POC period it self. We have been looking for a quick solution as it was implemented during COVID, hence we were trying to take advantage of this software to see how it … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Roque Statistical Analyst Chose Prometheus Prometheus was built to monitor CLOUD infrastructure. InfluxDB also has a good design to monitor time series but does not have a design for these demands. InfluxDB would need customization to integrate with Grafana and other third-party solutions. A disadvantage of InfluxDB is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Prometheus Both were present in the toolset. Splunk Enterprise was used in more of the log observability tool than the monitoring of the service. Prometheus was used mainly on the server and services monitoring and alerting capability used to have a stable production environment. … Incentivized Helpful? VR Vishal Ranjan Senior Storage Administrator Chose Prometheus Out of all the products that we did POC, Prometheus was the easiest to integrate the tool with our storage grid on which some of our most business-critical application workflows run. Prometheus was not only able to solve the monitoring problem but also provided a variety of … Incentivized Helpful? LAura Birt Information Technology Manager Chose Prometheus The installation of Nagios Core is quite difficult and the whole system seems us like a huge headache for us the entire team is not much happy with Nagios Core so we take the decision and switch to Prometheus and were really happy with our decision and satisfied. Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Prometheus prometheus brings the power of real-time graphs to the land of open source ( reference included ). It's lightweight and doesn't seem overkill if you're a startup company and do not have a heavy traffic load. Great for starting out on small to mid-scale. as traffic rises, you … Incentivized Helpful? Shivang Kar Lead Product Engineer Chose Prometheus The reason Prometheus stands tall against its competitions is because it is generic. Hence, it can be used to monitor all kinds of services, be it Database, Servers etc. Whereas CloudWatch only monitors over AWS services. Another reason is its huge availability of integrations … Incentivized Helpful? Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Chose Prometheus Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix. Incentivized Helpful? Candice Martinez Senior Designer Chose Prometheus Prometheus is easy to get started because it's easy to configure and set up everything. The support team will give you a full hand of support in case of any challenge or assistance needed asap. It's been the best monitoring solution for our environment. I like it provides … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Prometheus Prometheus is better as a monitoring tool than Graphite as Graphite is a passive time series database with a query language. Prometheus has a rich data model by capturing metadata with labels which allows for easy filtering and querying. For a clustered solution, Graphite maybe … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose Prometheus Prometheus is cheaper, and you can quickly set it up compared to others. It is integrated with most of the open-source monitoring and alerting tools and can help small companies in having a cost-effective solution early in their stage. Incentivized Helpful? Luke Villareal Owner \| Co-Founder Chose Prometheus I tested out this solution and vetted out a few other solutions as well and ultimately ended up going with Prometheus due to a few specific reasons. Prometheus has a freemium option that allows a company to maintain cash flow while not sacrificing the quality of the product. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Prometheus Prometheus is similar to some of its competitors but delivers with regards to metrics; being used internally by Google and other cloud-native companies like ours gives us the confidence that the alerting industry stakeholders view it as a long-term solution that the community … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Prometheus We evaluated Datadog and New Relic but cost-wise, these 2 are very expensive. Prometheus does require more leg work to match the feature sets but other than time, the cost is free. Pairing with Grafana, Prometheus can pretty much match features with the big players and still … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Prometheus If you combine Prometheus with Grafana, what you get is just amazing. it is basically the best ecosystem that I have seen. Grafana just makes those fancy "iron man" kind of dashboards and it just looks so appealing to your eyes. I have implemented Nagios Core earlier for … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Open source
Top Cons	Minus Difficult to learn

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User Ratings
	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (34 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Mauricio Lozada System Engineer Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Pradeep Panwar Lead Mechanical Engineer Read full review
Cons	Open Source As I said earlier I have not encountered any major drawback just minor challenges like new users may find Prometheus a bit overwhelming with its different modules can bring confusion. Also they can face issues with PromQL can be somehow complex while building an advanced dashboard. Incentivized Candice Martinez Senior Designer Read full review
Support Rating	Open Source Never had to reach out to them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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