We performed a comparison between Honeycomb.io and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"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 most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"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."
Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". 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". Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere, New Relic and Observe, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and VMware Aria Operations for Applications.
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