We performed a comparison between Honeycomb.io and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The DSL could be improved."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". 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". Honeycomb.io is most compared with Grafana, Sentry, Chronosphere, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Splunk Enterprise Security.
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