We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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 most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"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."
"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."
"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 initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 41st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. 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 Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Splunk APM, Chronosphere and Sentry.
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