We performed a comparison between Prometheus and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Prometheus stands out for its wide array of APIs and libraries, giving users a broad scope of options. Meanwhile, VMware Tanzu excels in its straightforward deployment process and seamless integration with other solutions. Prometheus offers adaptability and the ability to tailor to specific needs, whereas Tanzu guarantees the ability to handle growth, reliability, and robust technical assistance.
Users of Prometheus have identified areas for improvement in areas such as the language used for queries, the setup process, the DSL and analysis tools, customization and visualization features, stability, and documentation. Users of VMware Tanzu have requested enhancements in cost predictability, ease of redeployment, customizable dashboards, documentation, and the setup process.
Service and Support: Prometheus depends on available resources and a thriving online community for assistance, whereas VMware Tanzu has received varied feedback regarding its customer service. Certain users have reported satisfactory encounters, while others have encountered difficulties with support.
Ease of Deployment: Some users found the setup for Prometheus to be straightforward, while others faced a learning curve. The deployment time for Prometheus can range from one hour to days or even weeks. In contrast, reviewers had mixed opinions about the setup process for VMware Tanzu. Some found it to be easy and quick, while others found it complex, especially when setting up clusters.
Pricing: Prometheus is a budget-friendly choice with no setup cost or licensing fees, while VMware Tanzu can be pricey due to high licensing costs and additional expenses for integrations and add-ons. In terms of setup cost, Prometheus is a more cost-effective option compared to VMware Tanzu Observability.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Prometheus emerges as the preferred choice when compared to VMware Tanzu. Users appreciate Prometheus for its wide range of APIs and libraries, its ability to seamlessly integrate with various programming languages and operators, and its valuable dashboard for log collection and comparison. Additionally, Prometheus is commended for its scalability and customization capabilities.
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"No issues with stability."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"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."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
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Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 34th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Prometheus vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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