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Universal monitoring
March 28, 2022

Universal monitoring

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Prometheus

My company had several different products to monitor and alert on all aspects of IT. We began using Prometheus to consolidate all the monitoring and alerting products at the best possible cost (free). We also use Prometheus metrics to visualize the data in Grafana which helps get a better picture of our environment.
  • Flexible metrics collection.
  • Open source.
  • Customizable.
  • PromQL can be difficult to learn at first.
  • Ingesting metrics from any source.
  • 100% custom alerts.
  • Better overall picture of our environment.
  • Better stability.
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 remain free.

Do you think Prometheus delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Prometheus's feature set?

Yes

Did Prometheus live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Prometheus go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Prometheus again?

Yes

In an environment where there is just not one product that can monitor all aspects, Prometheus can step in. It can be used to monitor physical, virtual, containers, just about anything. With it being open source, the community comes together and has created several exporters to get data from almost anything imaginable.