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.
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The solution can scale well."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"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."
"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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