We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Scout APM 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."It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The product can scale."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. 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 Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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