We performed a comparison between Instana Dynamic APM and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"It is a stable solution."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". 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". Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and Sentry, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Zabbix. See our Instana Dynamic APM vs. Prometheus report.
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