We performed a comparison between Prometheus and Sumo Logic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is an efficient solution."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The product has an easy-to-understand interface."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is the ease of pulling the metrics."
"The scalability of Prometheus is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"Sumo Logic Observability presents a range of valuable features, including well-crafted dashboards and a diverse selection of helpful apps. However, personally, I don't hold a favorable opinion of the solution. While I don't struggle with writing queries, my main difficulty lies in recruiting competent individuals and ensuring their proficiency in utilizing the solution. This often leads to additional challenges and complexities. From my perspective, when compared to Microsoft Sentinel or even Splunk, Sumo Logic Observability has a steeper learning curve. One contributing factor to this disparity is the solution's long existence in the market compared to Synlogic. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that there are capable and knowledgeable professionals employed at Sumo Logic Observability. The effectiveness of the solution largely depends on how it is integrated into your internal operations and environment. Its utility and benefits can vary significantly. It is worth noting that organizations like the NSA and, I believe, the CIA used it in the past, primarily for rapidly searching and analyzing large volumes of data. To leverage its capabilities effectively, you must determine how to tailor it to your specific needs."
"Alerting and consistency are key. We have different tiers with log collectors, and continuous querying provides near-real-time updates. It's almost like instantly when something happens, like pending transactions or error fees. This helps reduce incident resolution time compared to waiting for thresholds on other platforms. We can continue logging in with them seamlessly and quickly get into action."
"The solution allows multiple groups to converge on a unified platform, allowing for different utilization by various teams."
"I have not seen any stability issues in the product."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"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 UI and GUI are areas of concern in the product."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"Documentation could be better. While it's generally good, sometimes finding what you need requires extensive searching. It's not always clear where to look for specific things."
"Implementing a more streamlined enrichment process, and conceptualizing the observability data collection as an ETL pipeline would be helpful."
"Fine-grained data can be quite frustrating to work with and should be made easier."
"SearchUI.exe is a bit clunky in the product, making it an area where the product needs improvements."
Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews while Sumo Logic Observability is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 5 reviews. Prometheus is rated 8.4, while Sumo Logic Observability is rated 8.0. 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 Sumo Logic Observability writes "Easy creation of custom fields, no need to alter applications; supports ten active logging applications simultaneously and faster than aster than default search tools". Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Sumo Logic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Instana Dynamic APM and Chronosphere. See our Prometheus vs. Sumo Logic Observability report.
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