Prometheus vs. XEOX

Prometheus

Prometheus

106 Reviews and Ratings

XEOX

XEOX

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Prometheus	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.	N/A
XEOX	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	XEOX is a cloud-based remote management and monitoring solution that includes optimized patch management, integrated remote access, software deployment, and IT asset management. It is used to centrally manage the IT landscape of all computers and servers within organizations, and keeps track of inventory and software.	N/A

Pricing

Prometheus

XEOX

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Prometheus	XEOX
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

—

—

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Prometheus	XEOX
Considered Both Products	Prometheus Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 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 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? YG Yatin Garg Product Manager 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 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 Anonymous 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? VR Vishal Ranjan Senior Storage Administrator 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 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 Anonymous 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 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 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 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 Anonymous 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 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 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 Anonymous 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? Mehmet Fatih Onal Technical Architect Chose Prometheus AppDynamics, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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? AK Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Chose Prometheus Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix. Incentivized Helpful?	XEOX No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Prometheus	XEOX
Small Businesses	InfluxDB Score 8.8 out of 10	Panda Systems Management Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	Action1 Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	TeamViewer Score 8.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Prometheus	XEOX
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Prometheus	XEOX
Likelihood to Recommend	This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission. Incentivized Mauricio Lozada System Engineer Read full review	XEOX is very well suited for scenarios where a high level of customization is needed. No other tool we have tested can be tailored so exactly to one's needs. It is possible to automize basically anything using custom scripts and the monitoring and health state of the devices is completely customizable, individually for every device. However, this reflects in the complex interface which is quite overwhelming at first sight. Therefore, I highly recommend contacting the support team to get an introduction into their product. They offer one-to-one meetings for free and make the first steps a lot more easier! Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Looking at metrics such as the aggregate number of HTTP requests served. Understanding how our services are performing in aggregate. Easy to deploy within a variety of architectures/environments. Open source so new features are added regularly and bugs are fixed in a timely manner. Free so there are no licensing restrictions. Endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has a health state for our devices which is completely customizable per device. So we can see on first sight whether there are some issues which are relevant for us. It is possible to run arbitrary powershell scripts which makes it even possible to automize tasks which are not supported natively by XEOX. The Windows patching is highly customizable: Even complex patch plans with multiple device groups which are patched at different times can be implemented. The support is excellent. The response time is typically within hours on working days. They have also implemented some of our features requests. Everything is included in the licence. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Customer Service: since this is an open-source tool, customer service is not that great. Generally, you get all answers to your problems in online forums, but in case you got stuck, nobody will assist you in a channelised manner. You will have to find the way out on your own, and it may become frustrating at times. More metrics for dashboards shall be added per the application being monitored. Standards metrics will work in most cases but may not in specific applications. Therefore, customised metrics shall be created for some of the industry-standard niche applications. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	At first sight, the interface is quite complex and it requires some time to get used to it. There is no ticketing system included. The documentation is partly outdated and incomplete. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	It is usable and one can learn if few people in the team are already using it. It can be difficult to understand at the beginning because of non intuitive UI and syntax of the rules. So, I've gone for 7 points as there is some room for improvement in user interface and rules syntax. Incentivized Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Never had to reach out to them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The support answers withing hours (sometimes even minutes) on working days. One can also arrange a one-to-one meeting with them to go over specific needs. They even advised me on creating a good patch plan and shared their knowledge of patch management with me. Everything without any additional costs besides the standard licenses. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	We are still working on the ROI The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
ScreenShots		XEOX Screenshots