We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Monitor is the preferred option over Prometheus due to its comprehensive features and seamless integration with other Microsoft technologies. It offers log analysis, graphs, charts, and reporting, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for monitoring all resources. Although Prometheus is highly flexible and compatible, it lacks user-friendly visualization tools and a reliable customer service system.
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry, AWS X-Ray and ITRS Geneos. See our Azure Monitor vs. Prometheus report.
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