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JenniferSoft vs Prometheus Group comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

JenniferSoft
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
75th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Prometheus Group
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
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 May 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of JenniferSoft is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prometheus Group is 3.3%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

ML
Easy to deploy, stable, and scalable
I use JenniferSoft to monitor the performance and transaction traces of our applications The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to divide the authorization of users because a lot of the people in our organization have different authorizations. The dashboard is a valuable…
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

"The dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The solution offers an easy way to install and scratch values."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The dashboard is very valuable."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
 

Cons

"The solution is pricy and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"Improvements could be made to the user interface."
"Prometheus can definitely improve its visualization. For example, the matrices represented in Prometheus do not have a very good visualization on their dashboard."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The query language in Prometheus is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product is expensive compared to Datadog."
"Prometheus is an open-source tool."
"My company uses the open-source version of the product."
"Prometheus is available as an open-source product."
"The solution is open source."
"The solution is not expensive."
"It is an open-source tool."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

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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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