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 most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The product can scale."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"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."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"The scalability must be improved."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"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."
"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 32nd 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, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability.
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