We performed a comparison between Honeycomb.io and Prometheus 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 solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"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 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."
"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."
"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 process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"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."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". 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". Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, Chronosphere and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and WhatsUp Gold.
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