We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Scout APM 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 product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"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."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product can scale."
"A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"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 product must improve its documentation."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. 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 Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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