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.
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The DSL could be improved."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"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."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
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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