We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: Azure Monitor is the preferred option over Prometheus due to its comprehensive features and seamless integration with other Microsoft technologies. It offers log analysis, graphs, charts, and reporting, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for monitoring all resources. Although Prometheus is highly flexible and compatible, it lacks user-friendly visualization tools and a reliable customer service system.
"You can scale the product."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It is an efficient solution."
"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."
"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."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"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."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry, AWS X-Ray and ITRS Geneos. See our Azure Monitor vs. Prometheus report.
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