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."The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"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."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"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."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The product can scale."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"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 32nd 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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