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Simple but powerful!
Updated October 13, 2022

Simple but powerful!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Prometheus

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).
  • Server detailed statistics
  • KVM virtualization (libvirt) statistics
  • RAID status
  • Load balancers (HAProxy for example) statistics
  • DB
  • Network layer
  • Simplicity (easy to deploy and manage)
  • Support and training (tons of materials and courses)
  • A huge variety of exporters (built-in or 3rd party) and integrations
  • Money saving (open-source product).

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

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!