We performed a comparison between Prometheus and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Prometheus stands out for its wide array of APIs and libraries, giving users a broad scope of options. Meanwhile, VMware Tanzu excels in its straightforward deployment process and seamless integration with other solutions. Prometheus offers adaptability and the ability to tailor to specific needs, whereas Tanzu guarantees the ability to handle growth, reliability, and robust technical assistance.
Users of Prometheus have identified areas for improvement in areas such as the language used for queries, the setup process, the DSL and analysis tools, customization and visualization features, stability, and documentation. Users of VMware Tanzu have requested enhancements in cost predictability, ease of redeployment, customizable dashboards, documentation, and the setup process.
Service and Support: Prometheus depends on available resources and a thriving online community for assistance, whereas VMware Tanzu has received varied feedback regarding its customer service. Certain users have reported satisfactory encounters, while others have encountered difficulties with support.
Ease of Deployment: Some users found the setup for Prometheus to be straightforward, while others faced a learning curve. The deployment time for Prometheus can range from one hour to days or even weeks. In contrast, reviewers had mixed opinions about the setup process for VMware Tanzu. Some found it to be easy and quick, while others found it complex, especially when setting up clusters.
Pricing: Prometheus is a budget-friendly choice with no setup cost or licensing fees, while VMware Tanzu can be pricey due to high licensing costs and additional expenses for integrations and add-ons. In terms of setup cost, Prometheus is a more cost-effective option compared to VMware Tanzu Observability.
Comparison Results: Based on user feedback, Prometheus emerges as the preferred choice when compared to VMware Tanzu. Users appreciate Prometheus for its wide range of APIs and libraries, its ability to seamlessly integrate with various programming languages and operators, and its valuable dashboard for log collection and comparison. Additionally, Prometheus is commended for its scalability and customization capabilities.
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"Prometheus is a great solution for monitoring."
"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 provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"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 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."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"No issues with stability."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"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 interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"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 solution's error handling part could be improved."
"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."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
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Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 34th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Prometheus vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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