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.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"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."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"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."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The scalability must be improved."
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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