We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Scout APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The feature I found most valuable is the number of integrations. It is the industry standard for metrics."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"Prometheus provides a flexible and adjustable querying and describing time, allowing for more responsive monitoring."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The product can scale."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"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."
"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 interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The DSL could be improved."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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