We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: Azure Monitor is the preferred option over Prometheus due to its comprehensive features and seamless integration with other Microsoft technologies. It offers log analysis, graphs, charts, and reporting, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for monitoring all resources. Although Prometheus is highly flexible and compatible, it lacks user-friendly visualization tools and a reliable customer service system.
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"You can scale the product."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Its stability could be even better."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry, AWS X-Ray and ITRS Geneos. See our Azure Monitor vs. Prometheus report.
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