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InfoVista 5View NetFlow vs Prometheus Group comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 8, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

InfoVista 5View NetFlow
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
78th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Prometheus Group
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of InfoVista 5View NetFlow is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prometheus Group is 2.5%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Prometheus Group2.5%
InfoVista 5View NetFlow0.2%
Other97.3%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

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Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow
We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow on a private cloud. This product has improved the way our organization functions through the better discovery of services. We check the IP address for Office 365 and other cloud applications used in business operations. We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow to understand the cost of the problems on our network links. We monitor the traffic flow and check which application is causing a lot of traffic. Instead of buying more bandwidth, we target the pocket with very high traffic. We move these applications so that the traffic is served through another partner. From Milan to Rome, we use various utilities for network load balancing for applications requiring excessive traffic. We monitor the traffic with InfoVista 5View NetFlow before going to the business and checking the on-site location for problems or issues.
MuhammadAzhar Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Free to use and provides valuable monitoring capabilities
Prometheus is a scalable and flexible tool that I can deploy on any cloud platform. It is free to use and provides valuable monitoring capabilities. It allows me to save money by avoiding costs associated with AWS native services like CloudWatch or Amazon Prometheus. The ability to deploy on any cloud platform or environment, including Kubernetes, is a major advantage.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"It is an efficient solution."
"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 product is easy to maintain."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
 

Cons

"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Improvements could be made to the user interface."
"The simplicity of the query language could be improved. The current query language is not easy to work with."
"The scalability must be improved."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Prometheus is an open-source tool."
"Prometheus is an open-source solution."
"The product is free."
"Prometheus is an open-source solution."
"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."
"This is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise12
 

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What do you like most about Prometheus?
The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Prometheus?
Prometheus is cost-effective for me as it is free. Using cloud-native alternatives like Amazon Prometheus would incur charges.
What is your primary use case for Prometheus?
I use Prometheus for monitoring purposes in IT infrastructure. It is particularly useful for environments using Kubernetes, as it monitors ports, containers, instances, and applications effectively.
 

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