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We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It is an efficient solution.""Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring.""The dashboard is very valuable.""The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""The best thing about Prometheus is its integration.""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 product is easy to maintain."

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"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."

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Cons
"Lacks the ability to clusterize.""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.""When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge.""The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience.""Its stability could be even better.""A slight alteration to the user interface should be made to increase efficiency and streamline the process. Currently, we are utilizing Prometheus to gather and compile metrics and then utilizing Grafana to display them in the form of a graph. However, I believe that Prometheus has the capability to handle both of these tasks on its own, with perhaps the addition of a supplementary plugin. By doing so, the need for utilizing two separate applications will be eliminated.""If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus.""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."

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"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of Prometheus is good, it is affordable because it is open source and there is no cost to it. You put it on your own server and the costs incurred completely depend on how you set it up."
  • "This is an open-source solution."
  • "The solution is not expensive."
  • "The solution is open source."
  • "The solution is free of cost."
  • "We use the solution's open-source version."
  • "The tool is open-sourced."
  • "We have the open-source version, so we don't pay for it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics.
    Top Answer:For a project I am currently working on in my company, I use Grafana, but for the data source part, I use Prometheus. I use Prometheus in a Kubernetes cluster. I use Prometheus for the processes… more »
    Top Answer:The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy.
    Top Answer:I had tried onboarding Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) on the cloud, but unfortunately, I couldn't onboard it on the cloud. It is an issue from my end that Splunk can try to improve.
    Top Answer:In my company, we use Red Canary MDR to perform MITRE ATT&CK, after which I import the lot or whatever commands were run by Red Canary MDR to my Splunk system for further analysis. I use a type of… more »
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    Overview

    Prometheus is a powerful open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit designed for cloud-native environments. 

    It collects metrics from various sources, including applications, services, and infrastructure components, providing real-time insights into system performance. 

    With its flexible data model and query language, Prometheus enables users to analyze and visualize metrics, facilitating troubleshooting and capacity planning. Its robust alerting system allows for proactive monitoring, notifying users of any anomalies or issues. 

    Prometheus also offers seamless integration with popular tools and frameworks, making it a versatile solution for monitoring and observability.

    End-to-end visibility helps you pinpoint customer-impacting issues from web browsers and native mobile apps to your backend services.
    Pinpoint user-facing issues anywhere in your stack — from web browsers and native mobile apps to backend services.

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    Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. 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 Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.

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