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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. …
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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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Abhishek Nandi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The whole design of Prometheus where goes ahead and scrapes data
  • Push gateways for the cases it is not possible.
  • There is no major concerns as such but i have seen few metrics are missing
  • the latency for datastores metrics for vmware is missing.
Sayam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It helped in creating the customized alerts.
  • It has ease of integration with other software like Grafana
  • All the servers can be managed under a single web portals
  • Permission based view and Mobile Accessibility
  • UI can be more explanative so that no training required for the user
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Slicing of Time Series data and drawing insights from them is one of the best features of Prometheus
  • Huge number of visualization tools
  • User Interface could be more friendly
  • Learning PromQL could be tedious task
Mauricio Lozada | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The response capacity of this program is incredible, and the preparation and organization of my data are reflected in my work and the good results.
  • Prometheus has been in charge of giving more professional support to our operation and, of course, to the response to all our external commercial relationships.
  • One of the worst aspects of this program that you should know before purchasing it is the price difference between its competitors, since this may be the most expensive.
  • Another feature that does not benefit this program at all is the interface it presents us with since it is a bit haphazard and does not allow us a better workflow.
Marcos Poveda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Best cloud native and metrics-based tool support, the best monitoring tool that I have been using for months and continuing.
  • Prometheus can also be combined with Grafana to expose a nice counter and use Alertmanager to produce complicated alert rules.
  • It can collect data from the instance and in addition to the hosted web portal, it also has an accurate alert system. It is fast and precise.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Management of all devices in a single web portal.
  • Flexibility to access from anywhere.
  • Elevate employee productivity and access control with collaborative devices.
  • Fluid and easy to use interface.
  • Compatible with all smartphones.
  • Reports.
  • Device location.
  • Instabilities to recognize a device with a weak signal.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Monitoring server.
  • Displaying metrics.
  • Setting up customized alerts for metrics.
  • Poor customer service. Takes time to respond and not much knowledgeable.
  • Initial configuration is time consuming and development intensive.
  • Need to improve the visualisation for better tracking.
Pradeep Panwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • My only concern is during configuration takes time as nothing works out-of-the-box.
  • Query language (PromQL) can be somewhere complex while building advanced dashboard.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great visualization
  • Provides multi dimensional data visualization
  • Has a flexible query language
  • Provides machine-centric monitoring as well as monitoring of highly dynamic service-oriented architectures
  • Improve on the GUI of the application
  • Backup and Restore process
  • Some of the cost calculation fields are harder to program with our set up.
Fernando Roque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Monitor networks events to detect irregular traffic peaks
  • Season demand of products for inventory management
  • Sales ups and downs for marketing campaigns
  • The query language is complicated.
  • Learn to integrate and manage Grafana for visualization.
  • Could include a Machine Learning Time-Series module to do predictions.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Vast variety of options to monitor different aspects of the storagegrid.
  • Ability to monitor the stats on a granular level.
  • Easy to integrate with the existing system.
  • Data can be presented graphically.
  • Its not easy to use, needs good level of expertise.
  • Need improved customer support.
  • Metrics doesn't include gathering data on bucket level for storagegrid.
LAura Birt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • A very effective and perfect monitoring solution for our company.
  • This is available at a very low budget.
  • The overall design of Prometheus is really very nice.
  • Some of the metrics are missing in there.
  • initially, it is difficult to implement and needs practice to implement.
  • Its query language promQl is difficult at all.
Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Graphana library really provides hefty graphs.
  • The fact that we can consume API to create our own graph is stellar.
  • Built in go, so if you will use it for go, somehow it gives really great performance.
  • We integrated email alerting and it worked flawlessly.
  • Robustness can be taken in account.
  • Still not able to depend for metrics that are corelated to preside usage for billing.
  • More first-party support to other language.
  • Graph are powerful but still can be tweaked to look even more modern.
Candice Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Prometheus is a versatile monitoring tool that we use to monitor a variety of infrastructure and application metrics.
  • It's easy to collect numeric metrics from services that run 24/7 and allows metric data to be accessed via HTTP endpoints.
  • We also use it for distributing services, which runs on multiple hosts.
  • We are able to monitor our operating system to identify when a server's hard disk is full or if a server constantly operates at 100% CPU.
  • 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.
October 13, 2022

Simple but powerful!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Server detailed statistics
  • KVM virtualization (libvirt) statistics
  • RAID status
  • Load balancers (HAProxy for example) statistics
  • DB
  • Network layer
October 13, 2022

Future of observability.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Collecting and gathering system and application related metrics.
  • Strong query language to get metrics and construct dashboards on grafana.
  • Support for various frameworks like spring for instrumenting metrics.
  • UI XP could be better.
  • Better documentation.
  • Detailed and more nuanced advanced queries and samples.
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