We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: Azure Monitor is the preferred option over Prometheus due to its comprehensive features and seamless integration with other Microsoft technologies. It offers log analysis, graphs, charts, and reporting, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for monitoring all resources. Although Prometheus is highly flexible and compatible, it lacks user-friendly visualization tools and a reliable customer service system.
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"You can scale the product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"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."
"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 most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Prometheus is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry, AWS X-Ray and ITRS Geneos. See our Azure Monitor vs. Prometheus report.
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