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.
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It is a stable solution."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"We like the alert features."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"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's error handling part could be improved."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"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."
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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, 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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