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."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"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."
"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."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The scalability must be improved."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"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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