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Prometheus - Solving the Monitoring Problem.
October 20, 2022

Prometheus - Solving the Monitoring Problem.

Vishal Ranjan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Prometheus

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.
  • 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.
  • Ability to integrate with Netapp Storage grid.
  • Able to visualize data using Grafana.
  • Variety of Metrics.
  • It has a positive impact on the way we used to view the data.
  • It has helped in improving the ability to monitor the health of the storage devices.
  • Able to take proactive actions.
Out of all the products that we did POC, Prometheus was the easiest to integrate the tool with our storage grid on which some of our most business-critical application workflows run. Prometheus was not only able to solve the monitoring problem but also provided a variety of metrics that other tools were unable to deliver.

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

The NetApp storage grid doesn't have a good inbuilt tool for monitoring, so to be able to use Prometheus is a game-changer. After integrating the grid with Prometheus, we are able to monitor a lot of stuff that was not feasible earlier. We are able to monitor performance, storage utilization, hardware alerts\failures, etc., all in a single place. However, we also have a use case to monitor the data stats on the bucket level, but we are unable to use leverage Prometheus. Apart from that, the Prometheus tool is very useful.