We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Users prefer Grafana to Prometheus because it has better visualization tools, more customizable graphs, and a more user-friendly interface. Although Prometheus is known for its flexibility and integration capabilities, it lacks user-friendliness and reporting capabilities. Furthermore, Grafana provides better customer service and support, with a helpful community and good documentation.
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"It is a stable solution."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"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."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"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."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Instana Dynamic APM. See our Grafana vs. Prometheus report.
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