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."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
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, Chronosphere, New Relic and Observe, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace and Sentry.
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