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Prometheus Group vs Scout APM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

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
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 May 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Prometheus Group is 3.3%, down from 3.7% 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
 

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 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 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."
"The resilience of the solution's metric collection is very nice."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The product can scale."
 

Cons

"Improvements could be made to the user interface."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"Its stability could be even better."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company uses the open-source version of the product."
"Prometheus is an open-source solution."
"Prometheus is an open-source solution."
"The product is free."
"It is an open-source tool."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"The tool is open-sourced."
"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

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Retailer
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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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