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 most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"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 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."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus for metrics collection and monitoring are its stability, robustness, and rich set of features."
"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."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"Its stability could be even better."
"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."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 28 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Prometheus is rated 8.2. 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 Honeycomb.io, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. Prometheus report.
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