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.
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"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."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"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 is useful to collect huge metrics."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The formatting could be better."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"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."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"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."
"The product must improve its documentation."
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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