We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Scout APM 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 feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"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."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The product can scale."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"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."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"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."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The DSL could be improved."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability.
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