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.
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"Prometheus is a great solution for 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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability must be improved."
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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, 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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