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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
April 2024
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A stable solution that fixes system health issues but needs to improve security monitoring-oriented features
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  • "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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    Ranking
    54th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    822
    Comparisons
    745
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
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    9th
    out of 111 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    6,261
    Comparisons
    5,569
    Reviews
    29
    Average Words per Review
    384
    Rating
    8.3
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    Chronosphere
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    Overview

    Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity, delivering increased business confidence.

    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.

    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer8%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Retailer13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Security Firm7%
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government5%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise28%
    Large Enterprise31%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Chronosphere is ranked 54th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. Chronosphere is rated 0.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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". Chronosphere is most compared with Honeycomb.io, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray.

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