Prometheus - as good as the movie
Updated October 18, 2022

Prometheus - as good as the movie

Asad Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Prometheus

We use Prometheus as a fault management & performance management tool in our CNF orchestrator. It helps to monitor alarms, plot performance graphs, capture metrics & define new triggers for customized alarms in the setup.

Pros

  • Alarm reporting
  • Performance graphs
  • New alarm triggers

Cons

  • The UI could be improved for PM graphs especially.
  • Discovery of metrics outside kubernetes is not possible.
  • The alert manager sometimes freeze up. Need a keep up refresh.
  • Alert manager for the alarms
  • Grafana for the observability
  • Quick and easy storage
  • I am not involved in the cost calculation of the softwares & systems.
  • However, I can say that it has a very positive impact because it is available for free as an open source system.
  • It saves licensing fee & can be integrated with external NMS also.
Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Prometheus go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Prometheus again?

Yes

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.

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