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Prometheus Group vs Scout APM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 8, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

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
Scout APM
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
60th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
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 Prometheus Group is 2.5%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Scout APM is 0.3%, up from 0.3% 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%
Scout APM0.3%
Other97.2%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Antonio_Barros - PeerSpot reviewer
Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing
The solution is stable. It's pretty easy to set up, especially if you have the knowledge base and/or you have a partner assist you. The product can scale. The processes are great. It helps with services and microservices. The product is great for man different industries, including energy, government, finance, and more.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has lots of APIs and libraries to integrate with any kind of language."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The resilience of the solution's metric collection is very nice."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The solution helps us to scale our products and services, and it helps me by gathering those metrics."
"The product can scale."
 

Cons

"Improvements could be made to the user interface."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"If you want to collect details of metrics, you should be able to write a query for it directly. I want the product to offer better queries for the metrics."
"The initial setup of Prometheus is complex and rated one out of five in ease of setup."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company uses the open-source version of the product."
"This is an open-source solution."
"The solution is free of cost."
"The product is free."
"The tool is open-sourced."
"Prometheus is available as an open-source product."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"The product is expensive compared to Datadog."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise12
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Questions from the Community

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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