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Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.
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Prometheus has proven to be a versatile and effective monitoring tool, solving various problems for users across different industries. Initially, some users found Prometheus to be complex, but once they overcame the initial learning curve, they discovered its value in monitoring time-series data and generating alerts for anomalies. With its user-friendly interface and intuitive query language, users were able to build robust monitoring solutions for their environments.
Prometheus has been widely used in microservice architectures to ensure high availability and performance, monitoring multiple services and maintaining uptime and resource consumption. It has also been integrated with other tools like Grafana and Linkerd to enhance monitoring capabilities and visualize data. Additionally, Prometheus has been utilized in monitoring databases, websites, and even corporate mobile devices to ensure network security and compliance with defined rules and policies. The flexibility of Prometheus as an open-source tool allows users to tailor it to suit their specific business needs while being cost-effective for small and medium-sized businesses with budget constraints. Overall, users appreciate the seamless experience of solving complex problems with Prometheus once they have acquired the necessary skills and find value in its extensive list of exporters and data visualization capabilities.
Prometheus is highly recommended as a monitoring system, particularly for cloud-based companies. Users emphasize its reliability, community support, and cost-effectiveness. It is suggested to try Prometheus as a monitoring solution in 2020. Additionally, users recommend utilizing Prometheus as a no-SQL database for runtime data. The tool integrates seamlessly with Grafana and can streamline services even in small organizations, although its financial feasibility may vary. To fully grasp its capabilities, users advise reading the Prometheus configuration documentation.
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December 07, 2022
Prometheus for metric collection.
November 07, 2022
Prometheus for Quantifiable Data Collection
- Grafana Loki, Grafana and 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 are becoming deprecated and no longer supported by Grafana dashboards next update.
November 04, 2022
The Best Service monitoring and Alerting combo toolkit pack.
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, Thanos, Grafana, etc.
October 26, 2022
Perfect tool for monitoring.
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.
October 26, 2022
Free feature rich Monitoring tool!
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.
October 25, 2022
Flexible, Powerful, In-Depth insights, Simple Monitoring and Metrics Collection Tool.
- AppDynamics and Checkmk
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 reliability on local storage. Alerts are defined based on Prometheus flexible PromQL and maintain dimensional information. The support has been wonderful and very responsive.
October 24, 2022
Quick Review on Prometheus Software
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 could help business drive during the COVID period. Hence ease of implementation was one of the main advantages in Prometheus.
October 24, 2022
Prometheus Time-Series Database: Monitor model and alerts using Graphana as a data visualizer
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 the null support for XML. InfluxDB is for event logging while Prometheus is focused on metrics recording.
October 20, 2022
Powerful monitoring tool for IT Workload.
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. Prometheus can also be combined with Grafana to present a beautiful dashboard and use Alertmanager to create complex alerting rules.
October 20, 2022
Prometheus - Solving the Monitoring Problem.
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 metrics that other tools were unable to deliver.
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.
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 can switch to Cassandra but meanwhile, its a great alternative.
October 18, 2022
One of the best monitoring tool
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 with some of the best services such as Alertmanager, Grafana or even with AWS CloudWatch exporter.
October 18, 2022
Prometheus - as good as the movie
October 15, 2022
Prometheus is Extremely Easy-to-use Open-Source, Top-class Monitoring Solution for our Environment. Solid and Responsive 24/7 Support Service.
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 excellent insights from a variety of metrics. I also like the accurate alerting system, which is versatile in case of troubleshooting.
October 13, 2022
Future of observability.
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 a better choice that can hold long-term historical data.
October 12, 2022
Great Value!
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 also allows for a business to pay more when additional functionality is required. Ultimately it was easier.
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 will keep nurturing and improving. Proprietary solutions have an associated licensing cost which will only increase as we get more machines and grow our company whereas Prometheus is easy to deploy and scales without massive additional operating costs.
March 28, 2022
Universal monitoring
December 19, 2019
Monitor your infra using 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 monitoring and I would say I still prefer Prometheus than Nagios since the flexibility that it provides and the ease with which it can be setup.