Prometheus

Prometheus

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Prometheus	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose Prometheus It is easier to setup, but learning curve is quite moderately steep. Prometheus is a best-in-class tool for engineers and SREs in cloud-native environments. When extended with tools like Thanos or Cortex, it can rival commercial platforms in scale and capability—but requires … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus As I mentioned earlier, Prometheus had an added advantage that we were able to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk Space, process monitoring which other tools did not provide us Some tools were obsolete, and other were costly when we wanted this good feature , only Prometheus delivered on … Incentivized Helpful? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff in Engineering at athenahealth (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Prometheus We considered TICK stack as an alternative to our Prometheus/Grafana setup that we have for capturing, storing and visualizing the time series data. But it seemed more complicated to learn and required a separate DB called InfluxDB to be setup. So, after all these considerations, … Incentivized Helpful? Abhishek Nandi Sr. Engineer in Research & Development at GreyOrange (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Prometheus The software is very lightweight and can be hosted with minimal resource usage. Many exporters exist for various software. Prometheus has a powerful and flexible query language (PromQL) that allows analyzing your data easy. I use this software with its various exporters, … Incentivized Helpful? Yatin Garg Product Manager in Product Management at Cars24 (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Prometheus Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Since Prometheus is free to use and provides all the features we required we went with Prometheus if any feature is missing then we can consider other paid solutions like data dog. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus It was easy to implement in our enviroment compared to the other products which has a lot of challenges in the POC period it self. We have been looking for a quick solution as it was implemented during COVID, hence we were trying to take advantage of this software to see how it … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Roque Statistical Analyst in Engineering at Amplitude & Statistics (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus was built to monitor CLOUD infrastructure. InfluxDB also has a good design to monitor time series but does not have a design for these demands. InfluxDB would need customization to integrate with Grafana and other third-party solutions. A disadvantage of InfluxDB is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Both were present in the toolset. Splunk Enterprise was used in more of the log observability tool than the monitoring of the service. Prometheus was used mainly on the server and services monitoring and alerting capability used to have a stable production environment. … Incentivized Helpful? Vishal Ranjan Senior Storage Administrator in Information Technology at Viacom (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Prometheus 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 … Incentivized Helpful? LAura Birt Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Cornucopia IT Resourcing (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Prometheus The installation of Nagios Core is quite difficult and the whole system seems us like a huge headache for us the entire team is not much happy with Nagios Core so we take the decision and switch to Prometheus and were really happy with our decision and satisfied. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus We used Grafana and Prometheus to take advantage of both tools' features (ex. alerting, and visualization with Grafana). Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer in Information Technology at AeonX Digital Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Prometheus prometheus brings the power of real-time graphs to the land of open source ( reference included ). It's lightweight and doesn't seem overkill if you're a startup company and do not have a heavy traffic load. Great for starting out on small to mid-scale. as traffic rises, you … Incentivized Helpful? Shivang Kar Lead Product Engineer in Information Technology at Fasal - Grow More, Grow Better™ (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Prometheus The reason Prometheus stands tall against its competitions is because it is generic. Hence, it can be used to monitor all kinds of services, be it Database, Servers etc. Whereas CloudWatch only monitors over AWS services. Another reason is its huge availability of integrations … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Li System Integration And Test Engineer in Research & Development at CACI/BITS (Defense & Space, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus is great for quantifiable metrics. Loki is intended for log aggregation. Depending on project a different combination of data source types may be needed. However, quantifiable metrics are predominantly supported by Prometheus. Other data sources like elastic search … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Prometheus is better as a monitoring tool than Graphite as Graphite is a passive time series database with a query language. Prometheus has a rich data model by capturing metadata with labels which allows for easy filtering and querying. For a clustered solution, Graphite maybe … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus is cheaper, and you can quickly set it up compared to others. It is integrated with most of the open-source monitoring and alerting tools and can help small companies in having a cost-effective solution early in their stage. Incentivized Helpful? Luke Villareal Owner \| Co-Founder in Corporate at Level Up Golf (Sports, 1-10 employees) Chose Prometheus I tested out this solution and vetted out a few other solutions as well and ultimately ended up going with Prometheus due to a few specific reasons. Prometheus has a freemium option that allows a company to maintain cash flow while not sacrificing the quality of the product. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Prometheus is similar to some of its competitors but delivers with regards to metrics; being used internally by Google and other cloud-native companies like ours gives us the confidence that the alerting industry stakeholders view it as a long-term solution that the community … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus If you combine Prometheus with Grafana, what you get is just amazing. it is basically the best ecosystem that I have seen. Grafana just makes those fancy "iron man" kind of dashboards and it just looks so appealing to your eyes. I have implemented Nagios Core earlier for … Incentivized Helpful? Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist in Engineering at Nokia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (36 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (1 ratings)