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.
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"You can scale the product."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"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 offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The DSL could be improved."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
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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