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."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"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."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"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."
"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."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"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 product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
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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