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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is used in multiple ways; the ones I have had the chance to work with are the following: - Deployed as a standalone tool to collect metrics (self-deployed and self-managed) - in this case, other solutions are also deployed (ex., Grafana) - Pre-existing solution in certain managed services on the cloud (ex. Prometheus for GKE).
Joshua Li | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Prometheus as data metric collection source of our systems' many software services. Each service has their own Prometheus instances created to collect specific metrics. The metrics are displayed and manipulated in Grafana using the Prometheus data source. Prometheus supports these Grafana dashboard displays to aid system monitoring, performance troubleshooting, and statistics.
Abhishek Nandi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A good monitoring tool, I have used it for the past 1 year and I have never seen any kind of problem till now. almost covered all the useful metrics that need to be monitored. at first, it is complex to implement but once these problems are solved it can be the best monitoring solution for your environment, In addition to being able to use it as a service, its requirements are not very high, this helps to keep a low budget in monitoring storage.
Sayam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We moved our software from Monolithic to Micro-service structure, here to monitor all the services Prometheus helped us a lot where our services were monitored at a ease. When we moved on the latter structure the number of services increased and monitoring was required with it , here the prometheus played a important role for alerts and the monitoring. It helped in creating the various types of the alerts for various services.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Prometheus majorly for working on time series data. PromQL has been very useful for me and my team, slicing of time series data and in turn using those to create visualization has been extremely useful for us. Addressing small slices of data and drawing insights from them feature I like best about Prometheus . Working on timely continuous data stream has become very easy for me now. Its even one of the best when it comes to visualizing data. It has many modes for visualizing data.
Mauricio Lozada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus has been a program that has supported us for a long time with multiple solutions and resources for our data; since we have installed this program, we can say that we operate with more professionalism and security since this software gives us the right tools for our nonsense within the digital world.
Marcos Poveda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At first, it is complex to carry out; however, once these problems have been solved, it could be the best monitoring solution for your field; in addition to being able to use it as a service, its requirements are not very high, this helps to keep a low control budget. Storage.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus has been used for a little over a year in our organization as an essential administrative tool to manage and monitor all corporate mobile devices on loan to selected employees, such as Android smartphones and tablets. The experience and ease of control by IT are extremely easy and propose more network security following the rules and security policies that we define for all devices. In cases of equipment theft, for example, it is easy to delete the data and make it unusable.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is a great monitoring and cloud-native support tool. It helps cover all the useful metrics which have to be monitored. It also allows us to build complex alerting rules for various metrics and create customized notification channels. We have also integrated Prometheus with Grafana for the user-friendly display of metrics.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Prometheus as a monitoring tool in our organization; it helps to track multiple applications and diagnose performance issues and bugs. Prometheus also keeps the system issues and keep application out of risk. Also, it is open source, so many tutorials and documentations are available on the internet. I personally found it very easy to use. all the data metrics are represented in a visual format, so it does a great job with visualization!
Pradeep Panwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is an open-source codeless tool, most secure, all-in-one, powerful and reliable monitoring tool that I have used for the past 1year now. My user experience has been very exceptional and phenomenal, the whole design of this tool is very user-friendly and intuitive it just requires some basic skills, and once all is goten user is able to build a very robust monitoring solution for our environment. It provides excellent insights from a variety of metrics. I also like the support quality is definitely second to none and reliable at all time. This tool has helped us monitor all our business environment easily.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use prometheus for monitoring in our enviroment. Due to the flexibility of open-source we are able to fine tune it to suit our business needs. The amazing part of this monitoring tool is it collects and stores data as time series data. This helps us to visualize the data in a way which we want to see and make improvements.
Before prometheus we have been using other softwares, however they seem to be very costly. SMB segments are not really able to spend lot of thier budgets into monitoring.
Fernando Roque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus database is a specialized model to monitor Time-Series based data and give alerts of anomalies to take action. Time-Series are events that occur on a regular frequency. Prometheus has a language to query the data and generate an alarm if the data has a variation in the frequency of the events. Grafana integrates smoothly with Prometheus as a data visualizer.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is a great solution for recording metrics to monitor cloud environments and infrastructure. It can gather metrics from a variety of commonly used techniques, such as Kubernetes. It also integrates nicely with data visualization platforms such as Grafana, so you can create dashboards based on the metrics. Alerts are also very useful for getting notified of situations in a timely manner.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This was a monitoring tool used in our IT workload. Reviewed all the services and web component monitoring done with this. It was solving complex problems with ease. It needs some basic skills; once you have that, you can build a beautiful monitoring solution for your environment. It almost covered all the valuable metrics which need to be monitored.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Prometheus for our mission-critical storage system - Netapp Storagegrid. The grid is spread across four different sites in US and UK. Since we are a media company, we use it for ingesting a lot of data. Prometheus helps in making sure we are not getting over-utilized, or we are not overloading the system in any way. It helps in monitoring the system for any physical issue or any logical issue that might disrupt production.
LAura Birt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is a very good and effective monitoring tool we are using for the past 1 year and it seems a really very nice software. Implementation was not much difficult and not much easy but it is very easy to monitor to cover all metrics once implemented. A really very good software.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a web team lead, I guide and work on a lot of web applications. Websites need constant monitoring for a seamless user experience without application downtimes. We use it to monitor factors like latency, storage and any errors that are breaking the deployment. We try to modify the code with our team to decrease the latency and increase storage whenever needed. The alerts and notifications help us resolve and prevent breaking changes/issues. It reduces the need for a separate Devops team and automates all such stuff.
Hüseyin Dal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is one of the best monitoring tools I have ever used. When the accurate and best metric data is provided, just sit back and watch your environment. You can set up your monitors, and after this, it is so easy to use and monitor your data according to your criteria.
Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have multiple services offered to users and actively planning to integrate all of them under a single domain. All of them will be accessible only after one acquires a license with a subscription. The problem is this individual system is developed using various technologies. We needed a central system to monitor health, uptime, and resource consumption. Prometheus was a worthy contender, along with Apache Cassandra. We embedded it in a PHP app using a third-party library. Using API & graphana, we built a dashboard with only needed metrics. it was near real-time, and I would recommend it to anyone who is purely looking for monitoring only. But it was missing some API calls, so if you're charging someone based on usage of your API, I'd say please look for another service. Apart from this, promotion is a really capable language. Setup is not that easy if you're a newbie. We can't complain much because it didn't cost us a dime as it is open source. Also, it's light on hardware and does not bring memory munching processes. We also use it to monitor some PHP-level queue jobs, and it registers each queue execution perfectly.
Shivang Kar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organisation provides agri-tech solutions and has various components such as IoT, cloud computing, mobile application etc. It is most important for us to make sure that none of our services go down or have any issues. For this, we need to constantly monitor all our services. Prometheus helps us in achieving this. We use Grafana on top of Prometheus to visualize our resource utilization and alert us if the utilization exceeds a certain threshold. This way we instantly know if there are any issues with any of our services and take care of it.
Candice Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Prometheus is an open-source tool that we use for monitoring our systems and alert functionality for cloud-native environments. It is also a great and very powerful monitoring tool that covers all the metrics that need to be monitored in my workplace. I have used it for one year now and till now no major drawbacks. I like the support team, which is unparalleled and very supportive, unlike other support services from other software. I like it's so simple to set up everything, and hence it's easy to use with an intuitive query language to retrieve and evaluate metrics easily. When it comes to visualization Prometheus offers multiple types of graphs and dashboards. I also like that I am able to use APIs to integrate with third-party visualization solutions like Grafana.
October 13, 2022

Simple but powerful!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My experience of using Prometheus is based on requirements to monitor and control our server's infrastructure. We have to monitor a lot of parameters in our data center environment (CPU / vCPU utilization, RAID status, network performance and etc.) and Prometheus is exactly what we need - it has a good list of exporters (haproxy_exporter, node_exporter, memcached_exporter and more) that gives us a perfect tool for all-aspects monitoring + YAML-like configuration. Moreover, it has a simple integration with visualization applications (Grafana in our case).
October 13, 2022

Future of observability.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Observability is key for getting insights into system health in a micro service-driven architecture. Prometheus is a key tool for us to scrape metrics on all aspects of microservices, from system metrics like CPU usage and memory resources to application health-specific metrics. Prometheus has been our tool of choice for gathering these metrics. Prometheus also has integrations with the spring framework for emitting and collecting metrics.
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