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 solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"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 scalable solution."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"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."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"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 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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