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 initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"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."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"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 solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"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."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"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."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"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."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"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."
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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, 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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