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What is Prometheus?

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.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When managing infrastructure or a set of machines (VMs or not), Prometheus is a very good, straightforward forward, and easy-to-deploy tool. I have deployed it with Ansible, and with Helm charts, both methods (although serving different services) were not complicated, took a couple of hours, and was instantly useful.
November 07, 2022

Prometheus for Quantifiable Data Collection

Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Li
System Integration And Test Engineer
CACI/BITS (Defense & Space, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is widely used for quantifiable data metric storage and is easy to use for including in any Grafana dashboard. Different services can share Prometheus data sources with each other in a complex software system architecture. However, a disadvantage is the Prometheus instance within a cluster is obviously dependent on the cluster status. If the cluster is offline, those Prometheus metrics will also be unavailable.
November 03, 2022

Prometheus - Monitor Everything

Sayam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sayam Jain
Software Architect
ReliableSoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - India (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We require a software which can help us different servers of Databases and Application. Here Prometheus helped us a lot to establish a superb customized monitoring alerts. We were able to check which of our service is going down, studying the pattern of service and get details and its behavior of past 30 days. It helped us to analyze the load a particular service require.
November 01, 2022

One stop solution for working on analyzing time series data

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is extremely well suited if you are working lot on time series data and drawing insights from them. Its also one of the best when it comes to monitoring your running databases. Its use is less appropriate if you have a small team at first, as it has some steep learning curve to be honest.
October 31, 2022

The response capacity of this program is incredible.

Mauricio Lozada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mauricio Lozada
System Engineer
Wipro (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
October 27, 2022

A very good tool for continuous monitoring.

Marcos Poveda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marcos Poveda
Junior business analyst
Ford México (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus predominates by providing an interface that gives the client the possibility of choosing those metrics that he wants to monitor, in addition to the adherence he has with other tools, such as Grafana, for the visualization of these metrics. Another utility that it gives is the use of Exporters that have the possibility of being useful in cases where it is not easy to carry out a system defined with Prometheus metrics directly.
October 26, 2022

Prometheus is one of the best MDM software.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is suitable for controlling and monitoring more than one mobile device, such as smartphones loaned to employees to use for work. You can control and install remote apps and block malicious or non-productive files. The MDM software has a single portal to manage all these devices and helps a lot in times of audit, theft, and general control.
October 26, 2022

Perfect tool for monitoring.

YG
Yatin Garg
Product Manager
Cars24 (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is well-suited for monitoring servers. It can also be integrated with Grafana to provide an efficient visualization of metrics. Another important feature is setting up customized notification alerts. It can also be integrated with webhooks. The metrics tracking is fast and accurate. It doesn't work well sometimes, as it takes time to understand and operate Prometheus.
October 26, 2022

Free feature rich Monitoring tool!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus does a great job with the visualization of dashboard data; it has great monitoring capabilities; if we are looking for multiple Kubernetes time series, then Prometheus is the solution to go for. Prometheus can improve upon installation. I personally found it a little difficult to configure; it gets really difficult when we add features one by one till we reach full features. It gets really complex.
October 25, 2022

Flexible, Powerful, In-Depth insights, Simple Monitoring and Metrics Collection Tool.

Pradeep Panwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pradeep Panwar
Lead Mechanical Engineer
GE (Machinery, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I like how I combine Prometheus with Grafana and work seamless out-of-the-box also present a beautiful dashboard and use Alert manager to create complex alerting rules thus makes it the best and most powerful monitoring server with all the possible metrics user can use to monitor all the environment. It's easy to use and configure.
October 24, 2022

Quick Review on Prometheus Software

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It suits well in intergreting with the esixting ERP solutions which is a main advantage. We are still in the process of exploring this software into a deeper dive.
This is less appropriate in an environement where they have non standard ERP solution. Integreation is key in today's IT world.
October 24, 2022

Prometheus Time-Series Database: Monitor model and alerts using Graphana as a data visualizer

Fernando Roque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Fernando Roque
Statistical Analyst
Amplitude & Statistics (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is an excellent tool to detect anomalies in data that has a constant frequency in time like:
a) Number of logins to the systems. The different trends could indicate fraud or security problems.
b) Network traffic. An anomaly could indicate an attempt to break the security.
Prometheus could improve by integrating a module to do Machine Learning and FORECAST.
October 20, 2022

Mature monitoring solution that has stood the test of time.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great solution for general metrics monitoring and notifications for IT infrastructure and Cloud environments. It is a mature product that has been around for some time. However, since it focuses on metrics, if you need a more complete Observability platform, there are more complete products out on the market.
October 20, 2022

Powerful monitoring tool for IT Workload.

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Suppose you have more servers and services to monitor part of your environment. Definitely worth a tool to customize the alerts for the components and configure them once. Then you will be done to monitor at ease. It collects the worth metrics to find nice insights on monitoring the IT workload.
October 20, 2022

Prometheus - Solving the Monitoring Problem.

VR
Vishal Ranjan
Senior Storage Administrator
Viacom (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The NetApp storage grid doesn't have a good inbuilt tool for monitoring, so to be able to use Prometheus is a game-changer. After integrating the grid with Prometheus, we are able to monitor a lot of stuff that was not feasible earlier. We are able to monitor performance, storage utilization, hardware alerts\failures, etc., all in a single place. However, we also have a use case to monitor the data stats on the bucket level, but we are unable to use leverage Prometheus. Apart from that, the Prometheus tool is very useful.
October 20, 2022

A very powerful software for constant monitoring of our required resources.

LAura Birt | TrustRadius Reviewer
LAura Birt
Information Technology Manager
Cornucopia IT Resourcing (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is very open-source software. The integration of Prometheus with webhooks is very nice and also the customized notifications channels are also very great. It is providing a very good quality of constant monitoring of our resources. Our team is just loving it. All the features are working very properly.
October 20, 2022

Best tool for monitoring your applications and alerting

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you want to scale your applications and improve your user experience, prometheus let's you monitor all the important metrics that help you improve your code and the application. If you also want to get alerted whenever your site is down, the tool is best suited. You can use the logged data for better development.
October 19, 2022

One of the best monitoring tool.

Hüseyin Dal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hüseyin Dal
Head of Enterprise Systems
istegelsin (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have many servers or applications, it is really hard to follow and monitor them. That is why you need to set up a monitoring tool and follow their metrics from one place. Prometheus is an ideal tool for that solution. We are using it as a monitoring tool solution and it really suits well for us.
October 19, 2022

Gift of powerful monitoring bestowed upon the land of open source.

Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lankit Patel
AWS Developer | Laravel Developer
AeonX Digital Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I said, if you're aim is purely to monitor your systems, let's say from one single place, and it should also generate some alerts when some metrics tick the threshold, just go for Prometheus on the other hand, if you're a company who derives their earning margin based off of transactions, it may fall short on some events and metrics, so I'd say choose Apache Cassandra in such case. Overall, it's a great tool with even greater service like its own query language promQL.
October 18, 2022

One of the best monitoring tool

Shivang Kar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shivang Kar
Lead Product Engineer
Fasal - Grow More, Grow Betterâ„¢ (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting tool. It allows us to cover all the useful metrics which needs to be monitored. It has powerful integrations available, such as Grafana - to present a beautiful dashboard; or Alertmanager to create complex and useful alerts. We can use it to monitor our servers, database, redis, sqs, and even python apps!
October 18, 2022

Prometheus - as good as the movie

Asad Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Asad Khan
Technical CARE Specialist
Nokia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a de-facto monitoring solution for any Kubernetes-based CaaS system. May it be on the public cloud or your private data center. The inbuilt metrics discovery for all K8s counters & alerts is great & the alerts can be pushed via SNMP to an NMS also. The PM files have to be fetched by an NMS which are generated in XML format.
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.

Candice Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Candice Martinez
Senior Designer
Liquid Agency (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Prometheus is a great open-source monitoring system tool that is cost-effective and easy to use, fast to adapt to, and also user-friendly for startups. The support team has always been so reliable and top-notch 24/7 no worries for the new users. It works well with third-party tools like Grafana and Google Stackdriver with a lot of plug-ins. Hence according to my user experience, I highly recommend it to all potential users.
October 13, 2022

Simple but powerful!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Leisure, Travel & Tourism Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
From my experience, the best case that describes the flexibility and usability of Prometheus is the monitoring and reporting of our Linux KVM virtualization infrastructure. Prometheus easily collects all necessary statistics from libvirt module (and RAID controller as this is also critical for us) and shares it with Grafana dashboard (which we downloaded from the site and customized for our needs). Simple but powerful open-source solution!
October 13, 2022

Future of observability.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Suitable for most microservices with the ability to get a view into system and application health and behavior. Alerts can also be set using data queried from the metric using an alert manager. This, along with the ability to build effective dashboards with Grafana give this tool an edge over others.
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