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.
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"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."
"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 most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"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."
"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."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"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."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 45 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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