We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."
"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 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."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"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 initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"Prometheus requires improvement on the query side."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"The UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"The solution has shortcomings regarding security monitoring-oriented features to support custom use cases, like out-of-the-box test scenarios and threat-related use cases of its users."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 41st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. 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 Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Splunk APM, Chronosphere and Sentry.
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