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 best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"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 can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"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 has an easy-to-understand interface."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The formatting could be better."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The solution should include online support."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"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."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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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