We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Users prefer Grafana to Prometheus because it has better visualization tools, more customizable graphs, and a more user-friendly interface. Although Prometheus is known for its flexibility and integration capabilities, it lacks user-friendliness and reporting capabilities. Furthermore, Grafana provides better customer service and support, with a helpful community and good documentation.
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution can scale well."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"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 feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The formatting could be better."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Instana Dynamic APM. See our Grafana vs. Prometheus report.
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