We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It is an efficient solution."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"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 dashboard is very valuable."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The DSL could be improved."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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