We performed a comparison between Grafana and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Grafana to Prometheus because it has better visualization tools, more customizable graphs, and a more user-friendly interface. Although Prometheus is known for its flexibility and integration capabilities, it lacks user-friendliness and reporting capabilities. Furthermore, Grafana provides better customer service and support, with a helpful community and good documentation.
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"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 most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"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."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Instana Dynamic APM. See our Grafana vs. Prometheus report.
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