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.
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"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."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The formatting could be better."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Its stability could be even better."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Prometheus can be initially difficult for users since it has its query language, PromQL. The minimalistic interface is complicated to understand. They need to improve their interface so that users who don't know PromQL can also use it. You can only leverage the tool when you know PromQL."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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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