We performed a comparison between Prometheus and WhatsUp Gold 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."The product is easy to maintain."
"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."
"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 solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It is an efficient solution."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"It is stable."
"The user interface is good enough."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"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."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace and Sentry, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Prometheus vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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